Athens Greece

Susi and I are trying to see as many places as possible around Europe while we are here and we both decided that we should see some culture along with some sun and climbing. The obvious choice was Kalymnos. Most people haven't heard about this small island located northwest of Kos, unless of course you are a climber. The island of Kos was once known for the sponge business. People from the island would dive to great depths holding their breath for extremely long times to gather sponges from the bottom of the ocean. Unfortunately back in the late 80's a disease decimated the sponge industry. Now the island is known for tourism and of course climbing on extremely overhanging limestone tufas. Oh wait a minute, let me digress. We first went to Athens on the way to Kalymnos. It rained all day and the garbage collectors were on strike and we couldn't check into our room because the airport was on strike....these two strikes weren't the only ones that we encountered but I am jumping around all over the place with the story. Here is a photo of the Acropolis then I will continue....