Sunday, December 31, 2017

Day 10 - Breakfast -> Changing of guards at Parliment House -> National Gardens -> Monastiraki Square & Flea Market -> Rest -> Dinner at OROSCOPO

Today is our last day in city Athens. Cooked our own breakfast -soft boiled eggs with bread and jams to go, Yummy.


After breakfast, visited various ruins. Roman Agora



Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens

Enroute to Synatmac Square to witness the grand changing of guards


A very quiet Ermou street on sunday morning

Parliment House/tomb of unkown soldier at Synatmac Square - Before 11am, crowds had already gathered to witness the grand changing of guards.



The guards worn special traditional military uniforms for this occasion.


March past by the guards


Marching toward the tomb of the unknown soldier



Change of guards

Some parade on-going at the end of the square

Syntamac Square





After that, we walked back and settled our lunch at bnb. Lunch was maggie mee with egg, mushroom and ham. There were also salads and banana too.

View from balcony

Monastiraki Square


Flea market






Had a break and gelato



We visited the National Gardens which was very ordinary and not spnear to syntamac Square briefly after roaming Monastiraki Square.



Syntamac Square

Back on Ermou Street


Bakery


Bought 2 crossiants which costed 2.60€ from the shop - they became our lunch the next day


Rested a while and then decided to take dinner at Oroscopo which had very good reviews on Tripadvisor. It was 2 stops away from Monastiraki Square and was in a residential area. Single trip costed 1.40€ per person. We were early so no reservation was required.

Restaurant

Ambience was pleasant and it had a high class feeling. Service was very good and fantastic. They offered complimentary soup and desert! Food were tasty. Desert was greek yogurt and hubby loved it!
Table Setting

Water

Bread & dips - 2.20€

Complimentary Soup on the house

Hubby had lamb shank, which was very tender and tasty, recommended by the server. 22.50€

I had fish - the fish here is similiar to ikan kembong but it was fresh. 17.80€

Yogurt as desert - also on the house

Total Bill : 43.50€

Enroute to subway

Subway tickets bought over the counter

We discovered that there were some ruins at the Monastiraki Station. Interesting!


Out from the station