More of Athens

Hi everyone. Happy Friday to you. 

    Sadly, winter is  back here at my house. Luckily it's April, and the snow shouldn't last long, especially since our temperatures are going to jump way back up once all this stormy weather moves out. But the way I feel, even 1 day of snow in the ground is too long.  😕   

    We really got dumped on with over a foot (over 30.5cm) of heavy wet snow, and  with the heavy wet snow as well as some strong winds, we lost our power too. Almost everyone (99.8%) in my town lost power yesterday. (According to the power company web pages only 3 homes had power in my town, and the town next to us was 100% out of power.) That was similar to many  other communities in New Hampshire.  With so many communities without power, I wonder how long it will be before ours is restored. I bet it might be a few days. This was definitely the worst  storm we had all winter, and it isn't even winter anymore. 

     To escape the return of winter, today I'm pretending I'm going back to Athens.  I have some photos I'll be linking up to Nicole's Friday Face Off . 

      Today I'm going up to  share some views of the Acropolis and the Parthenon.  This first photo was taken on our first day in Athens. It shows a side of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is not in view. It was too late to visit that day, so we walked around the base of the monument, part way up the hill.  That was  a little tease for the next day when we went all the way up. And it was a pretty walk also.

The next day after lunch, when we came out of the Acropolis Museum and walked our way up to the Acropolis, there was this really dark sky over the buildings. Luckily, it didn't rain on us. 

It's quite the climb up.

And luckily the sun came out for us too. It's too bad there was so much scaffolding, but when you are over 2000 years old, you can always use a little face lift. 

Here's an artist's rendering (from https://ancientathens3d.com/parthenon/)  of how the building looked when it was in its prime. Below it is some info I pulled off the internet.

The Parthenon's base was 23,028 square feet (about half the size of a football field) and its 46 outer columns were some 34 feet high. A 525-foot frieze wrapped around the top of the exterior wall of the building's inner chamber.

On our visit, the sun came out, but it was raining off on another hill. You can just see bits of a forming rainbow.

In the other direction we had beautiful sunshine.

Here's a viewing platform you can look back at the Parthenon from.

And here's my lovely face with the Parthenon behind me.

And finally for this post, a lighted view of the Parthenon and the Acropolis at night.  It almost looks fake, doesn't it? The hotel we stayed at had a rooftop restaurant/lounge, and we went up there on our last night  to enjoy the view and have a nightcap. 

Have a great start to your weekend.