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Discovering Athens
Forecast...rainy today. We dressed warm for deceivingly warm warm weather. We decided to have breakfast at the hotel restaurant that overlooks the Parthenon. Figure how often will we ever get to experience such a view! The sun was shining as we sat out in the open air. There was the best display of pastries, breads, croissants, fruits, and many other hot breakfast items. Not to mention fresh squeezed orange juice! it was hard to get passed the pastries to the ...
Sunny and hot in Athens
... the view!! Hopefully over the next few days we will capture some pictures to share. Before our swim, we headed to the streets for a late lunch and to catch the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Lunch was good and filling for all. Our kids are simply amazing as they handled the lack of sleep over the past 24 hrs spectacularly - they can travel ...
Athens: Mars Hill & the Acropolis
... their ignorance of the god they worship.
22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship —and this is what I am ...
Cruising day to Athens
Very quiet day today – in addition to no stops, I have developed a sore throat and cold – so not my normal sparky self.
We just lay around the pool, did crosswords and did some reading.
For our evening meal, we were with our new American friends again – some lively discussion about the world economy, US politics etc.
The Showtime event was superb – Rafael and Monika, Europe's premier ...
A Last Look at Athens
We caught a plane from Santorini back to Athens on June 8. That gave us a day and a half in Athens before flying home. Athens was in the midst of a brutal heat wave - I think the temperature was up around 35 above. And in the midst of more labor unrest, related to 'The Memo' - a series of conditions attached to Greece's financial bailout. We were told that there was a call for a general strike, but we didn't see much evidence of the strike, apart ...
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