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- Athens
- Capital
- Euro (EUR)
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- 10,623,835
- Population
- GR
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Athens
Travel Blogs from Athens, Greece
The Royal Olympic Athens hotel -Interior
... victory; he stands with admirable modesty and faces the crowd in total control of his emotions, a token of civilization in Classical Greece. Iniochos was originally part of a complex of statues that included four horses and a chariot. With the exception ...
Museum and Service Day
... ! I¡¦m very blessed to live in America and have more than most people will ever see in their lifetimes. Wednesday night was the Greece vs. Georgia soccer game, which most people went to, but there were 8 of us that didn¡¦t go and I was one of ...
It's all Greek to me!
... pretty cool...our receptionist was a Liverpudlian who decided that he had enough of the UK and shipped out. I don't blame him, really. Athens just seems to have more going on that Liverpool. The 'hotel' is actually quite nearby most of the places of ...
Arrived in Athens
... , Lebanon.. great expanses of dry deserted nothingness before crossing the coast, and skirting up along Turkey and then over the Cyclades. Athens was shrouded in fog, but at a cool 11% it was refreshing. When we arrived in the Plaka, the Athens suburb ...
trash worker strike in the birthplace of democracy
... from below- quite a sight. The next day started at the Archaeological Museum, a huge museum with artifacts from all over Greece that did a good job stepping through the major time periods of Greek history. It had numerous sculpture that did a ...
Arrival in Athens
The arrival in Athens was uneventful. After collecting our luggage we boarded the train to the city. We meet some students in route and told them about our hotel reservations near the main harbor. They recommended that ...
It's All Greek To Us!!!! .....
... of the guards (you know, those guys in the funny dresses & pom pom shoes with the even funnier dance steps), Athens stadium, the Stoa of Attalus and the Ancient Agora. We were really lucky too, coz all the museums and archaeological sites were free ...
Athènes et ses ruines
Bonjour, Après plusieurs semaines en Inde, le temps était venu de me rapprocher de l'Europe. Par contre, mes débuts furent difficiles… Jour 213: Malgré que j’aie essayé de dormir à l’aéroport, il fut compliqué de me trouver un ...
A Little classical history
... , but then 30% of the Greeks live and work in Athens. The taxi driver said there were 6 million people in the greater Athens area and the traffic is non-stop. It wasn’t helpful that public transportation was on strike yesterday. Today we have the ...
Greek Taxis, and the Flea Market
... darn, an American size (King) bed and it is even a thick mattress. A very comfortable arrangement here at the Marriott Athens Ledra. This Marriott is located in the area of Athens called Koukaki; the challenge is the Metro station is about a kilometer ...