Hotel Olympic Palace Athens

... can't decide how I feel about Athens. I had a lot of fun, and we packed an epic amount of sightseeing into a day, but it almost didn't even feel like a foreign city. Sometimes it felt more like some sort of "Ancient city" section of Disney World. As an American who had done painfully little background research on Greece before visiting, I found it shockingly easy to get around. The streets were surprisingly empty, apparently because most people are on holiday on ...

... full. We would tell that this was far from the truth so I guess she didn't like the cut of our jib. It was not an issue as we found a nice apartment a little further down the road but the cost was more expensive at Eur35 per night. There was this great cafe/ bar in the center of town that we spent most of our time in. The owner was this lunatic woman called Laoula. She was in her 70's and although she spoke a mixture of Greek and English we were able to pick up that she was born on the ...

... hoolsalt sugu ja paljunevad sama mühinaga.

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 ...

hi everyone and greetings from Athens Originally i was just heading straight from Rome to Istanbul by plane but i thought it wouldn't be that bad to spend a few days in Athens waiting for nic and then catch a nice over night ...

... It was hard for me to watch the changing of the guard; all that ceremony and marching and parading would have stripped the dignity of most American men, notwithstanding the gawking and picture taking of a hundred curious tourists. I felt guilty taking pictures and tried to remember that this was honorable for them as it would be for one of our soldiers to appear in their uniform. As they marched around the square, making a fair spectacle ...

... over, and while I was in one of them it began to rain. Luckily it didnt last too long and I went to the last two, the last one being the largest of them all. It had three levels, and included a large refectory, a old school kitchen (with fire and all), a black smith shop, 2 museums, the largest church of them all, and a bunch of other stuff. When I got back from the monasteries, is started raining again. And the next day it never really stopped, so I didnt do a whole lot ...

... the airport and got near to Fokia where Alekos lives and stopped for lunch at his cousin's restaurant. As I soon discovered, pretty much everyone is a relative of Alekos on this small island and cousins abound. About Karpathos. It is a desert mountain that sticks up out of the sea. Long and rocky, the towns are scattered about with no rhyme or reason. Permanent population- 5,000. Now, when I say desert, please understand that it is indeed desert- rocks and sand with some ...

... But, being too busy getting stuck into the debrief on what was happening in our lives since we last caught up, we had no real need to use our non-extensive Greek vocabulary at blowing more than a night’s accommodation in a private room between us before we’d even got to the hotel.

Once there we found a front locked door, an old bloke sound asleep behind the reception desk and a girl using the pay phone just inside the entrance. Once ...