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Athens
Travel Blogs from Athens, Greece
Athens
The average tourist cannot help but have high expectations for Athens. It has been continuously inhabited for over 4,500 years, hosted the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, birthplace of democracy as well as many great philosophers and thinkers, etc. ...
Long Time!!
... to lunch with some friends! I love having lunch at the base of the Acropolis. It is probably one of my favorite things about Athens. Then on Tuesday, after grocery shopping I had a statistics class. This was rough. It is a very business oriented class and ...
Athens, quickly
... the Athens international airport] 1/20/2006 Athens 12:20pm Now leaving Athina. I've been here about 18 hours. Arrived at the Athens airport fairly jetlagged at 6pm. Was directed by an American/Greek (hard to tell) to take the Metro [subway] to ...
Lynnbad and her blown gameplans
Well, I take a 10am boat to Athens and will be there by evening. Finding a decently priced hotel in Athens with rooms still available online has been a challenge. I took a slightly less fancy one in Placa, which I still think was overpriced. But I saved ...
Our Final Destination
... on our backpacking trip this year was to Athens. We made a good choice saving this city for last. Like I said earlier, visiting Athens definitely made our trip come full circle. Every city we'd been to leading up to Athens had something to do with ...
Greece striking, go go go go go go!
... ha ha Its Greece striking, go go go go go go go! Yes you could make a song out of our experience in Athens, the capital of Greece. When we arrived at the nearby port to Athens, we were met with the effects of the current economy crisis that has struck ...
#11
Hey all, Well, I finally made it out of Litohoro, in a final act of desperation I flagged down a bus heading to Athens and shelled out the 25euro to get me there. Expensive, but i didn't really have a choice. So, I am now in Greeces' capital city, and ...
Day 265 - Beaching Then Back to Athens
... a hotel that could not have been closer to the airport, instead of something more downtown. With the rotating strikes in Athens, transport out to the airport could have been a major hassle (Editors Note: in fact, the strikes virtually shut down the ...
To recognize a good day, you gotta have some bad
... of my stay. He said I'd have to work that out with my travel agency. I was NOT happy -- here I was in Athens, 100 degrees outside, lugging around my three heavy bags, with no hotel booked and treated like I had done something wrong when I had ...
Meteora Monesteries and Athens
... you like just as long as you put on your hazard lights. After returning the car we hopped on the metro (train) into Athens city to our backpackers accommodation, had a few drinks in the bar, went out to dinner (escorted by the hostels dog ...
Athens - City of Athena
... , like a sailor after drinking a full bottle of rum, we were heady after our experience of spending winter in Greece. Our journey began in Athens, a city that owes its existence to the Acropolis, and to Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom. Athena was said ...
"The Gods live here"
Greece! We found a cheap flight to Athens and poof! We're in Greece! We got in after dark and took the shuttle bus to the Athens city center. We enjoyed the views even in the dark. The bus dropped us in front of the Parliament building and our hostel ...
In Greece - Part I Athens
After leaving Brussels very early in the morning, we arrived safely in Athens. My father was worried that we only had 30 minutes of transfer time in Munich, but our luggage arrived on time. We had a great day today - visited the National Archeological ...
Greece
I don't have much time on the internet here and it is really slow, but I am in Greece and it is amazing!! I will write more about it at a later ...
Get In and Get Out
... the most forceful manner possible. After being confused at why these guys chose this job, we continued walking. The shopping district of Athens was a little nicer than what had seen earlier. But we were tired so we just went straight back to the hostel. ...
Madness in Athens
... in our hostel and met our mysteriously absent roommate. His name escapes me, but he was from Spain and was traveling alone through Athens for Semana Santa (Holy Week). After getting ready, we walked to Nikis Street to buy our ferry tickets to the islands. ...
Day 81
... seems to be very happy! I love happy endings! Today I'm going to purchase tickets for the following upcoming events in Athens: Faithless Duran Duran Franz Ferdinand Also, I have to make a plan, because I am spending too much time trying to ...
Easter at the Acropolis
... ;completely necessary to give you the "out of breath" feeling) We got on the plane around nine in the morning and took off to Athens, Greece. NOTE ON THE AIRPLANE: Aegean Airlines has been the best airline I have flown on out here. The planes ...
Athens
I think the last time I wrote I think we were in Athens and the blog was about northern Greece. We were in Athens for 3 nights and there is not much to the city other than the Acropolis. The Acropolis was cool to see but not as good as I thought it would ...
Athina
... able to enjoy a quick stop in this unique city. While Nina really liked it, I was only pleasantly surprised. It's deinfitely someplace I would be happy to visit again, but not by design. Athens is a cool city, but it aint no Rome. On to Italy! ...
It's all Greek to me!
... the 3-hour journey which was kind of quick considering that I went almost all the way across the country. Ramble part... I arrived to Athens kind of tired but then not really. Because what's there to be tired about. I've been tired so much in ...
Greece
... around 2500 years old, standing on a hill that dominates the landscape, and is surrounded by the incredible modernity of urban sprawl. Athens stretches out for miles around you in all directions. The contrast is astounding. It's like nothing I know, but I ...
Izmir, Istanbul, Katakolon
... on the full day tours to email! Well, the last few days we have been to Izmir, Istanbul, Athens and are now in Katakolon...a little village in Greece which is very quaint; little shops and restaurants right along the waterfront. Think we'll "do ...
Athens
... . Also when you look at the photo you'll notice Jeff and Marie are in short sleeve shirts. It was only 10 degrees warmer in Athens than it was in Munich, but what a difference! This was the first time we were able to use these shirts as the designer ...
less than 2 days until home!
... luckly we can leave our stuff here until we leave for the airport around 11pm. We are still trying to figure out when team greece is playing tomorrow. We have been asking people and all we can get is between 4-7 and at the olympic stadium...so we will ...
Imagine all the people
... , the wind was howling and everyone got soaked to the bone. So sadly, the others didn’t witness the enchantment of Athens. They saw her ugly face, got delayed by demonstrations, stuck in gridlocked traffic and jostled by myriads of fellow tourists ...
So old, don't care anymore-just wanna go home!
... We looked, took photos, but we are hard to impress these days having seen so much. We are officially burnt out. Athens is hot, but not untolerable. I don't see the pollution I have heard about here. We are spending the mornings sight ...
Goodbye, Greece -- Buon Giorno, Italia!
... a good majority of them as they were taken from Greece in the early 19th century. This is a great controversy and Greece's version varies considerably from England's when it comes to why the panels have not been returned to Athens now that they ...