Athens

Nathan and I had an earlish start to the day leaving the hotel at 9:30am to beat the crowds and heat to visit the Acropolis. After we wandered through the Greek Agora, which is an ancient market place.  We then found some more modern markets but didn't buy anything.  We had a look through the Acropolis museum, but by then our tummy's were telling us it was lunch time, so it was a quick visit to the museum.  For lunch we ate Gyros - basically a Greek kebab with the best yoghurt sauce ever.  Our day continued with a visit to Hadrians arch (incredible to think he built the wall in England-real globe trotter in his day), a visit to Olympian Zeus temple and finally to the Panathenaic stadium. The stadium held the first modern Olympic Games. Action packed day. Luckily we have been able to relax for an hour in the hotel before heading back out to find dinner.
On the yacht tomorrow - YAY. So excited.

Kew Gardens & Palace

We had a lovely stroll through Kew Gardens last weekend.  When I say stroll I mean 4 hour walk with no breaks for sitting down and no lunch stop!  We took in three massive glass houses, a mini aquarium, Kew Palace, Queen Charlotte's cottage and the tree top walk.  The temperate glass house is the biggest surviving Victorian glass structure in the world! It is closing in three weeks for a 5 year renovation so we were lucky to see it before it closes.  In total the gardens cover 121 hectares. 

 

Oval Cricket

Nath and I went with a group of 5 friends to the NZ v England Twenty 20 match at The Oval cricket ground.  It was a fantastic game with the result going to the wire, NZ winning on the second to last ball, as England needed 7 runs to win off the last ball.  It was awesome to be at a cricket ground that we had seen and heard so much about on tv.  We are getting around some very famous sporting venues.