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Gazi: 'The Shoreditch of Greece'?!
... I left I couldn't resist taking a quick photo but it doesn't really do the scene justice. I don't think many people know that there are people on this square every day and have been since the early summer.
I picked a taxi with an old man in a baseball cap - a safe bet I thought... 'Gazi gazi' I said showing him a post-it note with the name of the restaurant and the street name on. Though this isn't much use as the Greek alphabet ...
History while in Athen's
... near where we are at. At 9:00am this morning we drove through Syntagma Square, the squatters were camped and the protests will start and hopefully end there later on in the day, but for now all is quiet. The tour company decided that due to the general strike we couldn't visit Syntagma Square and a couple other places but we did visit Athens main attraction, The ACROPOLIS!!! and it was amazing, one more thing to check off ...
GRISTMAS (Greek Christmas)
... the entire area, we decided it was time for another snack. We just meant to get something small for the 4 of us to share...and we ended up with a beautiful piece of honey-fried feta cheese, a large piece of toasted bread covered with feta, peppers, tomatoes, and olives, and half a loaf of bread to eat with olive oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper. And they gave us free shots of ouzo.
Side note numero trois: Ouzo is dangerous. A) Because it's ...
Three nights in Athens
... are among the interesting sites on this side of the Acropolis. The Emporer Hadrian, once again, left his mark on another part of his world, establishing a library that housed thousand of Papyrus manuscripts. There is also another Hadrian’s arch on the other side of the Plaka. With Hadrian’s wall in England and Hadrian’s library in Athens, this Roman emporer man left a pretty big footprint on history.
Speaking of ...
Cole's Notes on Athens
... popcorn without butter!
That is Athens in a nutshell. This city is alive and bustling with lots of shopping, restaurants and night life. The Greeks really don’t come alive until after 9:00 pm so the night owls in our group always managed to find something to do. Still many sights to see in Athens but it’s always good to leave somewhere wanting more. So we say "antio" (good-bye) to Athens and hello to Santorini. ...



