Golden City Athens

... like a mini Parthenon but much more accessible), the modern Stoa of Attalos and the round Agii Apostoli Solaki Church. It was interesting to see the ancient road that had been excavated and the old sculptures that had survived two and a half thousand years. Last stop of the day was the Roman Agora, which while being pretty nice was pretty much just more of the same. From here I wandered back thought the streets of Athens to the ...

... back without any wrong moves. I even managed to stop off at this outdoor concert while making my way. I couldn't tell you what the concert was in aid off or what type of music was being played upon the stage. While standing amongst the crowd, supping from a bottle of beer, it was some time before I realized I still had my ipod on and I was listening to some banging traditional Irish tunes rather than anything that was being played on stage. A strong sign of my state of inebriation me ...

... hoolsalt sugu ja paljunevad sama mühinaga.<br><br>Käisime põhiliselt vanalinna osas Plakas, Syntagma ja Monastiraki linnajagudes. Plaka on vana Türgi linnajagu, mille tunneb ära kitsaste tänavate ja turulettide moodi poodide järgi. Lonely Planet ütleb, et Plaka on ekstreemselt turistlik ja enim külastatud linnaosi. See kõik on vägagi tõsi! Juba hommikust alates saab seal edasi liikuda vaid koos rahvamassiga ja tutvuda paremal-vasakul kauplevate suveniiri jms poodide kaubaga. T ...

... about our 'cruise' before heading off to our Plaka Dinner. It was in a quaint little restaurant up a hilly street &amp; there was some dancers performing in traditional dress &amp; lots of clapping. It was a fun evening. Note: not allowed to flush toilet paper in Greece as their pipes are so old it gets stuck and causes blockages. You have to throw it in a bin beside the loo......

... pulse. Things are all over the map; there doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to anything. The buildings are falling apart and much of Athens is quite grungy. There are a million cafes, restaurants, bars, shops, kiosks and stores selling a million different things. In short, the city is alive! In fact, it is one that never sleeps, and we can attest to that since we had to listen to the busy streets at all hours of the night from our hotel room (another situation for our ...

Piraeus is a great place, there is certainly lots to see.... a word of advice is if the green man at the lights is on for pedestrians to cross please beware it actually means its green so cars,motorbikes,trucks &amp; lorries will also pass through the red light they have &amp; will not stop so you have to dodge the traffic even though you think you have the right of way - we thought Dubai is a mad place for driving. But on the flip side of the mad driving there are so many good people ...

Day 129, 13th October 2006, Athens, Greece: same room, shame about the smell Our six-hour ferry journey to Athens was a bit rough, with some choppy seas giving the ole stomachs a bit of a rough time. We arrived in the evening and headed for the same hotel we had stayed in previously, where we were assigned the same room. When we opened the door, we were greeted by a dreadful smell, which we eventually tracked down to the pillow, so after replacing that ...

... alter and hurcule's birth place. It was like the movie Alaxander without the bad Brad pitt acting. I Saw the old olympic staduim and more tombs and monuments then I can remember. After walking for about 10 hours I meet up with a relitive of friends of mine who is canadian but now living here in athens. We went out to dinner at a place that billed itself as an acient greek eating place, they only served food that was avalible to ancient greeks and you ate like ...

... off to museums, and all this surrounded by metal scaffolding and some demountable offices only partially hidden by the primary construction work. It was hard to tell if there was anything at all original remaining from the ancient structures. So, at least to me, the Acropolis looked at its best when Paul and I viewed it from other lookouts across the city, starting from just behind it at the Monument of Philopappos, and ending up further afield ...

... in Athens.<br><br>Feeling a little better about my sunglasses, we decided to go back to the stadium to get some pictures of it at night. The Greeks have put large floodlights at all the major archeological sites, which allow them to be illuminated at night. We were hoping the same thing existed for the stadium and we were not disappointed. We got our pictures and wandered back across the Zappion Gardens into the Plaka.<br><br>We got to the Hotel Adrian around 8 p.m. We asked ...