hoooo boy that was an active day. and i am totally not sitting barefoot in the lobby right now because the wifi upstairs got all dodgy haha nooooooooo
anyway
- our guide is a finnish archeologist and he is such a good guide. he speaks mostly in swedish but with a finnish accent so it's more rhythmic and clear and, as i said, "the opposite of danish" which is maybe a thing i shouldn't say while sharing a table with the danish teacher
- for the first couple hours of our tour, we were followed by a dog. it had a collar but no apparent owner, and we jokingly said it was our True Guide
- standing on the actual birthplace of western democracy is amazing and all, but do you know what else we saw that was amazing? A WILD TORTOISE. A REAL LIVE TORTOISE JUST DOING ITS THING
- i posted some photos
here while i was still able to