After spending half-a-day traipsing up the Acropolis of Athens, two days later one could say I was trudging up its little sister, the Acropolis of Lindos on the island of Rhodes.

The Lindos Acropolis actually predates the Athens structure by about three centuries.

It's smaller but has all the same elements and also was built in the Doric style.

The bus trip from Rhodes Town, where Symphony was docked, was a pleasant coastal jaunt that showed off the many natural resources, products and skill sets of the island that sits off the cost of Turkey, but is part of Greece.

There were, of course, olive trees on the property of most inhabitants. Harvesting the olives is a fall-winter task that supplements the salaries of most on Rhodes who work in the tourist industry. which lasts from March to November.

We saw lemon trees, an area with numerous ceramics shops and linen factories before arriving in Lindos.

The picturesque town's winding trail past shops (where I bought Inter jerseys!) and restaurants leading to the many steps of the Acropolis. When you reach the top you can only wonder how the Dorians built these complicated limestone temples and arches in the 8th century bc.

Since the temple was built to celebrate Athena, the daughter of Zeus, produced without a mother, so that she emerged full-grown from his forehead as gold poured down from the heavens onto hills of Rhodes.

So I guess that explains it.