New Acropolis Museum Cafeteria

Having some time to kill in Athens, I visited the New Acropolis Museum for the second time. It was in afternoon of an weekday and there was hardly any queue for ticket.

I knew that there was a panoramic restaurant in the museum, but I rather opted the cafeteria in the ground floor as I wanted to eat something before starting the viewing.



Beside drinks, they offer light meals like sandwich and cakes.

Sandwich menu is rather interesting, in the sense that there is no 'ham and cheese sandwich', but 'smorked turkey ham and katsiki cheese from Domokos sandwich' and so on. I choose the one seemed the most adventurous: Kalloni (town in Lesvos) sardine, grey mullet bottarga, and fresh basil leaves in semolina bread sandwich.



I like fish sandwich, but this one was far too salty to my taste buds. Kalloni sardines are salt cured and the ratio of salted fish againt bread was too high. I quickly finished diet coke and a glass of water to get the sandwich through my mouth.

The remarkable point about this cafeteria is, however, the pricing. Sandwiches are beteen 2.80 and 3.50 euros and cakes are 3 euros. Soft drinks are about 2 euros, so you can have a light lunch only for 5 euros circa. Considering the cafeteria of National Archaeological Museum charges exorbitant price, it is a great bargain.

Just that I will order something else next time. ;)

P.S. I visited this place on a different day and the service was quite caotic. Yes, it was busy, but it does not have so many tables and there were 5 or 6 service persons. You might have to be a bit patient on one of busy days.

Sunday in Thissio

This Sunday, we went to Thissio to see Sunday Flea Market. Thissio Flea Market is open 7 days a week, but Sundays, there are more sellers and stalls.

As always, we took 040 bus from Piraeus and arrived at Syntagma. Then we walked along Dionysios Areopagitos Street to Thissio.



It was the day the President of EU Commission Mr. Barrozo was to visit the new Acropolis Museum and there were men in black around.




Late last year, I heard that it was opening in January 2009, but it was now postponed to June.


Thissio.


These are the vendors.


Treasures (?)



At this point, Hubby started to complain. He does not like used stuff. He called "second-hand" even the antique items, so you guess how he reacted when he saw these.


And we needed to eat before going to a rendez-vous with Hubby's friends in Mikrolimano. We went to Psyrri and stopped at the Naxos Mezedopoleio (I wrote a page about it in the Gate to Greece).

Apart from burnt chips, it was rather fine. Brilliant were the cheese stuffed peppers in the photo above. If you'll be there, don't miss these babies out!

Akropolis Archaeological Museum

http://www.mesogeia.net/athens/places/acropolis/acropolismus_en.html

I translated the section of the Acropolis archaeological museum. Some English words are still faulty, I guess, and I will correct them in these days; however you can start to enjoy the photos. ;)

Erechtheion

3 November 2005

The English section of Erechtheion (on the Athenian Acropolis) was added. This section existed only in Japanese before, and on this occation I added some new pages and new photos.

I put here only the entrance page, but there are 5 other pages under this page.

http://www.mesogeia.net/athens/places/acropolis/erechtheion_en.html