Just all around the corner from the Acropolis, Dimotiki Agora (or what English speakers refer to rather lamely as the Athens Central Market) is almost certainly the most effective place to see modern day Athens in all its chaotic glory. Wandering close to the seemingly endless corridors of vendors, if 1 was so prepared or so motivated by their OCD, one could count “some 108 butchers, 150 seafood stands and 80 fruit and vegetable stalls” that cram themselves underneath a giant glass roof and hawk their products to some thirty,000 locals on a day by day basis. (Multiply that quantity by ten come Christmas, Easter, and interestingly sufficient, President’s Day. Seems Lincoln is big in Greece.) There’s also a amount of dining establishments that can be found beneath in which it’s recommended that you sit down and try a steaming bowl of patsas soup (a tantalizing mixture of bull or lamb abdomen wall and lamb feet). And you have been just going to pick up a gy...