Park Hotel Athens
10 Alexandras Ave Athens, Attica, 10682, Greece
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Athens!
... underway, we made ourselves ready for dinner and met up with Grant and Frances at our usual watering hole for a pre-dinner drink at Vintages. We had a great meal and lots of entertainment with our waiters. Afterwards we took in the evening’s show, which was a comedian/juggler who was pretty good. Then back to Vintages for our night cap. I couldn’t get to sleep so I made my way down to the cigar bar for a drink and a cigar to wind ...
Travels Part IV
... After dinner myself, Ania, Ian and Chris headed to the Hollywood Pub, a place advertised as a cocktail bar which had absolutely no cocktails and only 4 bottles of beer. Chris then departed before the remaining 3 of us went to the bar next door for another beer along with some moonshine given to us by the bar owner - always reassuring to be served alcohol out of an unlabelled plastic bottle - and I had ti drink 2 as Ian doesn't drink shots.
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Pickpockets, Heroin, and a French Fry Sandwich
... with no inside door and rode in silence to the 6th floor.
Once we were safely inside our room, Nick asked me if I had seen the people on the corner.
“Who?” I replied, oblivious.
“There was a group of people crouched down,” he explained. “I’m not sure if it was a drug deal, or if they were gambling, or what.”
I brushed it off. “I’m sure it was nothing,” I replied.
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Acropolis
... new hotel.
After getting resettled and resting a bit, we walked to the "old" district of Athens, Plaka. Plaka was a bustling neighborhood with tourists who were shopping, eating, drinking and walking about. It was a extremely tourist driven neighborhood, but after seeing the other parts of Athens via taxi rides, we were not complaining about the cute restaurants and souvenir shops. We had tapas and wine on at another rooftop cafe, and ...
A Last Look at Athens
... increased police presence in the streets. There was some issue with the power voltage regulation (which may or may not have been related), which meant that our hotel was unable to run the air conditioning. In the midst of the heat wave, it was like an oven our first night back in Athens!
On our last day, George, Sharon and I went down to the Agora - the ruins of the ancient market place. This site was the focal point of civic life in ...



