Strike

Well sometime between when I went to bed last night and when I woke up this morning the strike expanded to include several national agencies. I left the hostel this morning at around 7 to get a head start on the walks to the sites I wanted to see as the transit system was on strike. When I got to the Agora I was told that the archeology sites were on strike as well, but that the Acropolis and the Temple of Zeus, because they are handled by the national system exclusively may still be open. So I circled the fences of the Agora taking the best pictures I could, and headed off to the Acropolis. As I stood from the top of the Aereopogos looking out over the city and watched the sun rising behind the Acropolis you could see that all the gates and shutters around the Acropolis where still shut an hour after they were supposed to open, and sure enough the Acropolis was closed for the strike as well. So I walked the perimeter of the Acropolis and took some more pictures. I came back to the hostel with news that the strike had spread and may be extended more than the original 24 hours it was planned for. So keep this in your prayers that they will resolve this dispute and I can at the least leave Athens to see the rest of Greece and hopefully Turkey as well. God Bless each on of you.

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