Best Western Ilisia Hotel Athens

... drinking, &amp; dancing, and don't sleep...plenty of time for that in planes!"<br><br><br>Once we had checked into our very handy hotel, only a stone's throw from the Monastiraki markets, we pinched ourselves at how close the Acropolis was, then made a bee-line for the markets, to enjoy fresh, cheap &amp; beautiful chicken kebabs...it was mid-afternoon, and past our lunchtime afterall! We bought more gifts, fresh ...

... problem was that every time they began digging a hole or boring a tunnel, they would stumble upon more antiquity. The work would stop while the archeological experts would assess and usually excavate. Then building would continue, sometimes right around these sites. One of the main stations, Syntagma, is as much a museum as it is a subway station. I wonder how often people got frustrated at the delays in order to preserve the history. I can imagine the great debates in ...

... br>So, we exited Hilton and made our way to Exo Bar, a trendy club which commands a fantastic view of the Acropolis and the Lykavittos Hill from its roof terrace. The club is situated on Markou Moussourou Street and the nearest train station is the Akropoli Station on Metro Line No. 2. If<br>you prefer to walk, it is about 15-minute walk from from Syntagma Square..<br><br>Exo is a very lively bar with trendy people in informal setting. The music was good and ...

... walkways. As soon as I saw them I had us head left and we ducked in to a restaurant that way, which we'd seen locals lining up to get food from before. Turns out the reason they're lining up is not, as we though, because it's super cheap (though it's pretty cheap) but because the food is so, so good. I tried the traditional Moussaka and oh wow so good. I googled it and found out it's lamb mince with eggplant, tomato and white sauce on top and baked. So. So good. At the end ...

... days that you have every once in a while where you just want to give up and cry. I didn't but I really wanted to. It sucked! Luckily I can probably count the number of days from hell I've had in Europe on both trips on one hand. It's all par for the course really, so moving on from there. I arrived the next day into Athens without a hitch. Transport in was easy, and the hostel was next door to the metro stop. Whew!! The hostel is great, right outside it the Acropolis so I couldn't ...

... a small magnetic chessboard for the LRC. I bought an "It's All Greek To Me!" t-shirt for myself. Pictured above, it has a list of common expressions in English beside their Greek counterparts, spelled in the Roman alphabet. The funniest thing about it is the one that says, "Your welcome . . . Parakalo." I feel it supports the fact that I didn't buy it in the US ...

... or stupid enough) to sleep outside! We arrived at 5am (or there about) and we loaded up the bike trailers and we were off. The very first obstacle we were faced with was a massive hill to climb (Hania port up to Souda)..... well it looked massive to me on the first day of cycling.....when in all honesty it was nothing and something that in a few weeks when our fitness levels increase we will manage to climb easily. The first 5 kms of the ...

... undergoing tonnes of renovation, so much (if not most) of it's hidden behind scaffolding, which somewhat detracts from the impressiveness. That being said, it's good that the work is being done. When you have a structure over 2000 years old, that has weathered, well weather, random cannonballs (not particularly good when you're using the building to store gunpowder...), as well as general stupidity (last year some Canadian was imprisoned for a month ...

... an agent for Key Tours, thus meaning that they could sell tickets for them. While eating breakfast, we decided that we would take the tour to Cape Sounion. We chose that tour because it was a trip that could be done in an afternoon, and it was a chance to see another temple. We went to the front desk and ordered two tickets. We wanted to pay with our credit cards. However, the clerk at the counter said that only cash was accepted. So, 16,400 drachma went out of our wallets ...