Apollo Hotel Athens

... we stopped by Syntagma Square, famous for its bakeries. We purchased an assortment of baklava including chocolate, pistachio, and nut. Athens seems to be a very fun city, but our enjoyment was marred somewhat by the weather. They have an excellent ...

... Delphi and train to Corinth to plan the trip in a couple days. Rode metro and tram to beach and did a program, walked in old Athens district and along foot of Acropolis. !7 stops on tram from the Parliament building to the beach by the way. ...

... we knew there was still a lot that we hadn't seen.  Arriving in the morning, we dropped off our bags at our hotel in Athens before heading straight to the bus terminal for a 3-hour bus ride northwest into central Greece to see Delphi.   It ...

... in rhodes.  I want to just put in a shameless plug for a book before I finish this blog, i finished the book Shantaram in Athens, although a massive book, it was one of the best books I have ever read. The story of an escaped convict from Australia ...

More of H's Notes We took a taxi driven by a fellow called Dimitrios to the Athens Central Hotel which is situated right alongside the fruit market and has pictures of fruit covering the glass frontage on the ground floor so as to blend into the ...

... little time. As predicted before we started on this adventure, it took around an hour for the bus to get into Athens and for us to find our hotel via the metro. The hotel looked like it was situated in the middle of a warzone, everything around it seemed ...

... specialty of the area so we tried some for lunch and it was very very good...and cheap. we booked an all day tour tomorrow of delphi, an ancient mountain top temple for apollo that is about 2-3 hours from here. anna says 'hello' mom and ...

... "Bugger it", just turning left, then pleading ignorance if caught was almost the best option. Finally found the Hotel after about 1.5 hours remapping the entire Athens road system. Getting used to dinner at approx 9 - 10 pm, which seems the Greek ...

... Munich where it was 7c.  All of the people laughed at us when we came in with t shirts and jandals.  Arrived in Athens 2 hours later and back to 30c heat, no humidity though, its niiiicceee. Arrived at our Hotel to find from our room we can see ...

... , but our guide told us about everything we were seeing all the way there, which made it more fun.  Before leaving Athens we passed a statue representing Icarus's fall to earth, which is a memorial for fallen airmen.  We stopped halfway there at ...

... ramp! Whew! Close one! Marios left out the little detail of our stop being one of many! We got to Paros and checked into hotel Apollo. The décor was exactly what I would expect for a Greek hotel, complete with Greek statues. Angie and I were excited ...

... metro stop. That afternoon, with beautiful puffy cumulus clouds and crisp skies, we went to the Acropolis for views across Athens, walking up slippery marble steps worn from millions of feet.  The Acropolis was being restored so was covered with ...

... that's not your problem.) Your main building material is stone, preferably Pentelic marble, which is marble quarried from Mt. Pentelikos near Athens, a favourite in that time for its beauty and quality.  But you'll need wood for roof-beams and other ...

... and earth met. After the Acropolis, Delphi is the most popular archaeological site in Greece. It is located 180 kilometers from Athens. In classical Greece era, Delphi was the site of the Delphic oracle and a major site for the worship of Apollo (a ...

... to today and correspondingly I brought an enormous bottle of water to explore the acropolis, the monument to Athena, Zeus and Apollo, a library created in 500 b.c. and the very birthplace of democracy in the ancient agora.  Finally, I witnessed the ...

... even The Triton was bouncing up and down as water splashed against our porthole on our overnight journey back to Pireaus/Athens. The interesting thing about traveling is your never feel like you have seen enough. Traveling simply wets the appetite ...

... ;m feeling kind of grungy, tired, and stressed by the time that I hop on a bus towards the center.  My expectations of Athens were really low, since everyone has told me that is just a big dirty city.  I actually ended up liking certain parts ...

... I just hopped on the subway there (which was right across the street from where I was standing). My initial thought was I'd stay in Athens 2 nights so I could make a daytrip to Mycanae. Upon further reading, I didn't think it would be worth the 9 hours of ...

... in the trees and your own breathing. I can see why the Ancient Greeks held this as a Sacred place, you could almost feel Apollo's presence up there, it was uncanny. With time running out, i bolted back down the mountain, passed the tour group (only 20ft ...