Pentelikon Hotel
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Een maand later
... Evia was verdeeld tussen zeven steden waarvan Khalkis en Eretria de belangrijksten waren. Uiteindelijk won Khalkis het van Eretria maar werd later door de Perzen onder de voet gelopen, en net als alle andere eilanden ingelijfd door Rome en Byzantium, maakte de Venetiaanse overheersing er een koninkrijk van. In 1470 kwam de Turkse overheersing die tot 1830 zou duren. Dit allemaal gelezen te hebben was toch wel de indruk dat Evia de moeite waard was om ...
Conquering Athens the way Spart couldn't
... I finished that and came to the end of Ermau successfully not entering any shops! But, just ahead were Athens’ flea markets. I walked down the crowded street full of shops and shopkeeps trying to make the quick buck. It was similar to Chinatown in NYC or even an outdoor Greenhills. I walked through quickly and headed to explore Hadrian’s Library. This is when I discovered that my ticket from the Acropolis could work on multiple sites!
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It can't rain on our parade, we won't let it...
... the city. Fortunately except for the odd crazy scooter driver and red light our journey in was non eventful. Turns out the hostel is on a pedestrianised mall...no problems we found a park (albeit beside an obvious homeless community) really close and lugged our stuff in to the hostel. The hostel is great, we have a room and bathroom to ourselves plus a balcony overlooking the cafes and bars. It was now after 5 and ...
Saw some really OLD stuff ;)
... a couple lines later and we made it to Piraeus port. It was a HUGE port, and we finally figured out which one was hopefully us, so braved the heat and walked the length of a couple docks to get to our boat. Thankfully we were able to check in quite early and walk right onto the boat! Not quite as nice as our last ferry, but still good to grab a beer for when we sailed off and call it a night sailing onwards to ...
Laxing out in Athens ready for the islands
... a very long time (forever according to our guide) to come aswell due to earthquakes, bombings and restoration work they are doing on it.
Down the hill and off to the New Acropolis Museum, which is a piece of modern art in itself. Like Egypt we were not allowed to take photos inside of it but you could take an outside photo of the Acropolis on the 3rd floor. But the museum was very modern with its glass floor and stairs that let as ...