Athens, Greece

The next trip that we took there was 6 of us. We went to Athens and Santorini Greece. The first stop was Athens and we were there for 2 nights. We stayed in a Hostel right down the streep from the Acropolis. The Acropolis was very nice to finally see, but was kind of disapointing because most of the buildings had scaffolding all over them. It was still nice to see, but woulud have been a lot more appealing if there was no scaffolding. That has actually been something that we have seen a lot in our travels. Actually most of the buildings we go see there is work being done. That's a bad thing for pictures, but a very nice thing to see because that means eventually it will be restored and/or fixed. The pavement that I got to study in Athens was by far my favorite. It was basically marble slaps. That is very basic and I have seen a lot of that around other cities, but it also had glass plains that allowed a person to see down into the roman ruins. The glass combined with the marble and the ruins, just made it amazing and beautiful.

Marble pavement with glass looking through to the ruins.

This was seen at The New Acropolis Museuem, by Bernard Tschumi and it is supposed to be finished in about a year. This building was also my favorite in Athens because the way that Bernard Tschumi designed it. He built this 3 story building literally on top/hovering the roman ruins. He did this by have many columns through out the structure. Some of the columns even went from the roman ruins to the very top. You could actually see this through the glass. This is seen below.

Another pavement that I studied in Athens was on the way to the Acropolis from our hostel. This pavement like the pavement at The New Acropolis Museum, is something that I have not seen yet. This material was reversed from the pavements that I saw in southern spain and in Rome. This pavement was flat pavers, which is normal, but then had punches out of it as if rocks were put in it and then taken out. It was just something that different.