Day Four: Athens, The Acropolis Museum and the King George Palace Hotel.
After a pre breakfast swim in the aforementioned sea followed by a private sunbathe around our personal pools, we hit the bus and were in Athens in time for lunch. Next on the agenda was the climax of our weekend – a visit to the recently opened Acropolis Museum. Some five years behind schedule, the museum is situated on the sacred rock East of the Parthenon and houses the greatest sculptural treasures of the ancient world including works from the temple of Athena Polias on the Acropolis and parts of the Parthenon by Phidias. As such, expectations were massive and yet, from outside the glass, concrete and steel building, designed by ‘deconstructivist’ Swiss American architect Bernard Tschumi, even though rather remarkable, still does not prepare you for the treasures within.