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We're alive!!!!
Hello everyone! We arrived safely in Athens at 4:45pm Athens time, that's 6:45 am whitehorse time. We hopped a train to Monatiraki and then transfered to a train which took us to Victoria station, Downtown Athens. We're staying at the best western hotel which is around 3 blocks from the station. We once again proved that simplicity is no match for …
Funky Gourmet Restaurant in Athens
... to have the phone number handy in case you find some difficulty. There are theatres and art galleries in short proximity but still if you don't have your own car and it is late after midnight it is better to leave by taxi. Argyro called a taxi for us and it showed up in 3 minutes. Don’t expect to see a sign with the name on, however you will instantly recognize it. It is a corner white-washed neoclassical building and it is exactly as it shows on the website.
We ...
Discovering Athens
... Acropolis museum and the fifth is in a museum in London. Can somebody please tell us how to pronounce the name Erechtheum?! Goodness! The Parthenon, which is the biggest building of them all, along with the other buildings, were build by Pericles in 438 BC and took nine years to build. The Parthenon is dedicated to the Goddess Athena. What an amazing site!!! No matter how many pictures we had seen, we were not prepared by the immensity of the Parthenon and ...
Athens Day 2
... haha. We continues on to see more ruins, like the temple of Olympian Zeus, Hadrian's Arch, and then we finally made it to the Acropolis. It was definitely amazing and very mind-blowing that people started building monuments and temples on the Acropolis in the BC times (around 400ish BC I believe). The Parthenon was huge and beautiful and I can't believe I actually saw it in person. It's hard to believe people were so advanced ...
Athens: Mars Hill & the Acropolis
... a woman named Damaris. However, for many listening to Paul speak at Mars Hill the idea of Jesus's resurrection proved too much even for the open-minded Athenians. Paul's speech was cut short by those who scoffed at this final proclamation. Paul left Athens, and nothing more is known of the small group of followers he left there.
32 When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, ...