Anafiotika Athens

... time just wandering around the main pedestrian areas in Athens. This included the Plaka- a big shop and restaurant area, Anafiotika- an un-Athens-like neighborhood at the base of the Acropolis, and the Monastiraki market area. We had fun souvenir ...

... a quiet cafe (To Kouti) facing the Agora for an ice cream. We were all hungry (it was 2.30!), so we headed up the Anafiotika area for lunch. This area is on the edge of the Acropolis hill going up steps & lanes past whitewashed houses until we found ...

... needed drink stop. After a wander down the Street of Tripods I got a tad lost (predictably) before reaching the Anafiotika Quarter, a maze of whitewashed houses in the style of those from the Cycladic islands.  Following the twisting path around ...

... that they mean it when they say you shouldn't mix Ambien with wine), we were very excited to arrive in Greece. We weren't that psyched for Athens as we heard it was a big, dirty, smoggy, and disgusting city (we are definitely more beach-vacation ...

... so special. I am wandering in the north section around these small streets in the slopes under the Acropolis in the area called Anafiotika. It is about a cluster of small houses built by some workers who came here the mid of 19th century to build Athens. ...

... and Tower of Winds, Hadrian's Library, the Keramikos cemetery, the modern Parliament building, train stations, the quaint village of Anafiotika directly below, the Mars hill where St. Paul is said to have preached, Filopappau Hill, Likavitou Hill - it ...

... among them to sample their few vegetarian offerings.  Squeezed beneath the Plaka and the Acropolis is the tiny village of Anafiotika, full of extremely narrow lanes (single file!) with white-washed houses that seemed to have been transplanted from a ...

Today we flew from Istanbul to Athens, Greece. Athens was host to the 2004 Olympics. They made many improvements to the city including a new airport, highway into the city and an underground metro.  There are about 11 million people in Greece ...

... potential display is in the BM (that's British Museum to you.) Coming back to our hotel more steps to an area called Anafiotika. It is a cluster of small houses built on the slopes of the Acropolis above the Plaka. Think quaint, white washed streets and ...

... Directly north of the Acropolis, this neighborhood gave a great view of the northern part of the city.   Directly south from Anafiotika is the Roman Agora. The Roman Agora became the main market of the city, taking over many of the ...