Hotel Marie Athens
100 Zoodochou Pigis Athens, Attica, 114 73, Greece
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Day 255 - Junior & Senior Craigs Reunite!
... Despite that we were relatively far away, likely on the edge of ancient Athena, the Acropolis seemed smaller than we had expected. It was still magnificent to see, especially all lit up! We dined at the hotel and despite the modern atmosphere (read: loud music) we traded stories and reports, pausing every so often to enthuse about our trip or to remind ourselves of another subject we would chat about ...
Athens, Day 2 & 3
... the Acropolis, built in approximately 650 B.C; and fantastic scenery with Athens city views.
After a quiet beer at the local sports bar watching a Liverpool soccer match, we later experienced using the modern subway system back to the city shops that impressively sits underneath the Ancient city. A traditional greek meal of lamb and chicken Gyros with a Mythos (Greek beer) at a local restaurant really hit the spot after a long day of sight ...
More Athenian Ruins, but with better views.
... the cruise ship, it was much
cooler in the hotel lobby as well as relaxing.
At 11am I decided to head to the airport. It
seamed that I had done a lot in a few short hours, but that was good.
From the hotel I headed up to Syntagma square, got a ticket for the
airport, jumped on a crowded train and made it to the airport
station. I checked my bags in and then I went and had lunch. It was
Asian food with airport prices. Oh well.
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Day in Athens / Istanbul
... few thousand years old? we didn't do ancient history). After that we started off towards the Plaka - the touristry district like the old town in Barcelona. On the way there went into a small museum purely because it was free an airconditioned- saw lots of greek/roman pots, jewelry, tools, weapons, and pots.
Had lunch at a small square in the Plaka, where the owner convinced us to have lunch by offering us free drinks and showing us the days specials in ...
Athens is Old... and Overratted
... raped in the ass.” As I put it, we sat on the corner and drank our 4 Euro a piece, small slush. While enjoying our ridiculously expensive flavoured ice water, we people watched and came up with a little entertaining game. Athens is renowned for having expert pickpocketers and it is said that one out of every five tourist will lose money due to scammers and thieves. We would watch the hordes of tourists pass by and target who is the most likely to get dooped, and who ...


