Holiday Inn Attica Ave Peania

... shopping. Godiva bought two shirts and two dresses, and when we got back to the apartment she modeled all her finds before she had to pack them away in her suitcase, ready to depart obscenely early Tuesday morning. The taxi was scheduled to pick her up at 3:30am, but we stood on the porch of my apartment waiting until 3:45, growing more and more anxious as the taxi failed to arrive. I ran back ...

11:30 am (1:30am PDT) - November 3 - Our ship pulled into Piraeus harbor and got some great pics of Piraeus and Athens. At 1pm we disembarked the "Splendor of the Seas" and walked to the tour buses that brought into Athens. This city had almost no residents before World War II, but today is home to over 5 million today. The land is 1/3 of Greece, but over 50% of the ...

... nice and I really like the location, so close to the Acropolis. The view isn't quite as gorgeous from the roof, if we were just one story higher it would be a bit better, but it is still so stunning to look at the Parthenon beautifully lit at night! I love how well all of the ruins are lit up at night...its very romantic too! I went up to see the Oracle(well not really!) in Delphi on Thursday on the bus from ...

... also full of archeological wonders) and ended the day with a trip up to 'Lychebettus Hill" where there is a church dedicated to St. George and a fabulous restaurant. The food was good but what made it fabulous (beside the fact that we were there) was the amazing 360 degree view of the city. It is the highest point in Athens - you have to go up by cable car. We watched the sunset and the lights come up everywhere - and could ...

... no comment.. On Wednesday, Aug. 13, our tour guide, Michael, came to pick us up around 8am. He drove us around the city, pointing things out as we went and gave us a history lesson on the acropolis and surrounding area. He had us first visit rock of Areopagos aka St. Paul's rock where the Apostle Paul spoke to men of Ancient Greece about Jesus. This is also where Orestes, Agamemnon ...

... it to be called) to the actual Acropolis - a city built to protect the most important people in Athens. Originally there was 4 - 5 gates that you had to pass through to actually get inside, but now there is only 2 that are distinguishable. The top of the Acropolis is PACKED with tourists, it is only the shoulder season at the moment so july+august will be crazy up here. The actual temple up the top is pretty much in ruins and you are not allowed inside, and i was ...

... passing across the top pf Athens to find somewhere on the east coast to stay - which means we'll be pretty close to the airport tomorrow morning. We had thought that the drive along the Gulf of Evia, north of Athens would be another scenic trip, but no! For a start, its all freeway driving - very fast! And the sides and median strip of the freeway are all heavily planted, so what views of the coast there might have been are all obscured. And then this area seems to be fairly ...

... we decided to WALK it off so we beg*n exploring the Old Town of B*ri with f*shion*ble boutiques but nothing to spend * Euro on! We kept w*lking *nd w*lking... until we were re*dy to drop *nd tried to keep one foot in front of the other until Noon so we could sit *nd e*t some lunch. We found * mom-n-pop grocery store *nd ordered up s*l*mi *nd mozz*rell* cheese s*ndwiches. This mozz*rell* w*s AMAZING, m*de by h*nd in the store *nd this ...

The weather packed in the day we left Mykinos, the first rain we have had in Greece in fact! so we were happy to get on the boat and head for Athens. We arrived at night so went straight to our hostel and crashed. The next morning was mums birthday, so we went for a fancy lunch at a Retaurant in the plaka, just below the acropolis. It rainied outside while we drank nice retsina and wine and dined on gorgeous greek cuisine. We ...

... 3000 year old ruins co-exist with bustling modern cities and towns. It is the home to a beautiful people with a proud culture and strong identity rooted in their rich past and unique cultural traditions. A people who are ever happy to share their deep,sincere hospitality with the rest of the world as honoured guests in this cradle of Western Civilization... It began with a marathon ferry journey from the Croatian island of Korcula to Greece that took 2 full days and nights. An overnight ...