Athens Walking Tours

"You just have to see the changing of the guard in Athens" our friend Anna had said in Mykonos. “Why, what is special about it?” I asked. “You will see!” she said.

Athenians have Attiitude with a capital A and never is it more evident as in the changing of the guard. Just check out the pics! The guards dressed …

... 30 degrees by now so every time the guide stopped to speak we dashed for the shade.  A bit of a change from our other walking tours where we sought out the sunny spots. The walk up to the top of the acropolis wasn’t too bad after all.  ...

... are replicas), and on quiet nights, you can hear the sound of the marble women weeping for their lost sister. On two different walking tours now, guides have taken us to places we've never been, and then set us free at the destination without walking ...

... of the sweet stuff in China - absolute heaven! We headed off to Monastiraki square to meet with our tour guide from Athens Free Walking Tours, which despite the rain was going ahead.  Our guide was called Walter and he was a classics major and ...

Friday 15th June We took a really good walking tour of Ancient Greece with Maria from 'Athens Walking Tours". She put about 3 ~6,000 years of Greek history, religion, culture, myths and legends into a clear, succinct and intelligible perspective for ...

We are now in Athens, Greece and I haven't written anything since Carlisle. Sorry. (You will be after reading all of this). Haha. We went to Edinburgh after Carlisle and made sure we watched Braveheart, Sarah's favourite movie, before going. Of course a ...

... Pablo Picasso and Renoir had struggled to make a living. If you happen to go to Paris, make sure that you take the walking tours of both Paris and Montmartre. After getting up at 3am to catch my transport to Orly Airport, I was pleasantly left ...

... years of studying to get. George and his buddy was trying to start up the free tour as a business, kind of like NewEurope's walking tours and I think it's a great business idea. Athen is very cosmopolitian and has everything you could need. Ermou is ...

... led us back to where we were the day before. It was an interesting tour, but needless to say, it’s probably best to do walking tours on the very first day in a city. I personally couldn’t wait for it to finish so we could head back and do ...