Palace Athens
4 Leoforos Vasileos Georgiou Athens, Attica, 16675, Greece
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Athens!
... all kinds of touristy shops. We stopped at a nice patio at a cross-roads area and had a traditional lunch of Giros, humus, Dolmadakia and beer...well, I had beer…the others had coffee. My beer was better! After a great meal we made our way back to the entrance of the Temple of Zeus, where Connie and I took a look around and some pictures while waiting for the bus to pick us up and take us back to the ship. The area around the temple ...
Travels Part IV
... one place before swapping them for beer at the bar! But Suede were, as always, fantastic, playing pretty much a greatest hits set with To The Birds and Killing of a Flashboy thrown in. With the Athens metro being shut I jumped in a taxi back to Syntagma and stopped at the Golden Arches for some supper before heading to bed.
Sept 12th - Not a great nights sleep to the accompaniment of Daniel's snoring but up for a shower and spot ...
Pickpockets, Heroin, and a French Fry Sandwich
... went for my wallet four times!” He exclaimed. “I grabbed her hand hard and told her to knock it off.” He was hot and anxious and we quickly walked toward our next train.
“At least I have all the money!” I replied cheerfully, trying to break the tension.
The next train was nearly empty and we relaxed a little as we traveled the last few stops to our station. We finally arrived and walked quickly to the stairs. With a little help ...
Acropolis
... were switching hotels from the Omega Hotel and she sounded astonished that we had booked there in the first place. She then went on to explain to us that the Omega Hotel had been run by the Russian mob for years, and was directly in business with the lower level strip club. Well, that explained everything and we were on our way to get our bags.
We decided since we had already spent a lot of the day with logistics that we would first enjoy ...
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 ...



