David's Israel Adventure

This blog will chronicle the adventures of me, David Weinfeld, as an Otzma fellow in Israel, from August 21st, 2005 to May 29th, 2006. I hope this is as exciting for you as it is for me (though that would be a tad bizarre, now wouldn't it?).

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

The Ruins of Greece.. and the Racism

I suppose some of you are interested in the ruins of Greece. Well they are incredible. We've seen the Acropolis, the Temple of Zeus in Athens, the Hephaestion, the oracle at Delphi, Ancient Mycennae and the National Archaelogical museum. Tomorrow we head for last day trip to Cape Sounion to see the Temple of Poseidon. What we have seen so far we loved, especially Delphi and Mycennae. In the winter, these smaller sites are located near ghost towns. There's not much to do in the eveving but the sites are far less crowded which is nice. We climbed down an ancient cistern at Mycennae, built around 1200 BC or so I think. We had a flashlight, it was pitch dark and we were by ourselves. And we saw the tomb of Agamemnon by ourselves. Awesome stuff.

We also saw a bunch of swastikas around Mycennae, and some graffiti that said "White Europe" and "White Revolution." Not awesome. And strange. Greece is 98% ethnically Greek and 98% Greek Orthodox according to Let's Go. The only black people we've seen seem to be African immigrants selling bootlegged CDs.

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