The First-Timer’s Travel Guide to Athens, Greece (2019)

Ren’s cousin met Greek director and cookbook author Christos Sourligas in Athens and he told her an interesting story about the city’s MRT.

According to him, it took the city much longer than anticipated to complete the metro system because every time they’d dig, they’d discover ancient ruins. They’d stop digging, pack up, then move to another location when boom, they’d find more ruins. This would happen again and again, forcing the city to delay the project and redraw their plans so as not to damage the newly discovered relics.

I loved hearing that story because for me, that was Athens. It’s one of the world’s oldest and most important cities, remembered by history as the cradle of Western civilization and birthplace of democracy.

And the evidence, is right beneath your…