Visit to the National Gallery- last full day in Athens
Thursday May 29 was a mix of sun and cloud with a high of 26C. We had dropped in at the Tourist Office on Syntagma Square on Monday and I decided to buy a This is Athens t-shirt. After all, the new speaker in Parliament said that Canada must be "Athens to America's Rome." When in Athens--- goes with my Elbows Up t-shirt We stopped by the nearby Stavros Bakery to pick up some cookies for our plane trip on Friday. They have an incredible assortment, a number of which are non-dairy. Lots of varieties of cookies and breadsticks are found in nearly all Greek bakeries, except for the ones that do fancy pastries. Entering the bakery Assortment of cookies Our destination for the afternoon was the National Gallery- Alexandros Soutzos Museum (named for the donations of a Athens lawyer and art lover), only about a 20 minute walk from our apartment. We passed an interesting sculpture in a small park across from the museum. Unfortunately the inscription wa...