Athens Greece Restaurants

... just a big dirty city. I disagree. Yes, it's a big city, but it's got a lot of charm and joie de vive. The outdoor restaurants are all over the city and are great. The Acropolis looks bigger in pictures, but the way it's lit up and night and the view from ...

October 12th to the 16th, 2005: Athens, Greece So this past Wednesday Lindsey and I left for Greece. We got on the 10:16 train to Ancona (which was five minutes late, and that's the only reason we made it.) In Ancona we took a ferry by a company called ...

Day 120 - 122, 4th - 6th October 2006, Athens, Greece Our ferry pulled into Patras at about 9:30am, which unfortunately was not the end of our journey. After waiting around for an hour or so, we boarded the VST (Very Slow Train) to Athens, arriving at ...

... on the way to Athens because the train follows the shoreline for a long distance. There are several modern looking, high class restaurants that overlook the clear waters of the Ionian. And I thought this place looked like it might have something to ...

... a small street that formed a border between the ruins and the city. Along this narrow crowded street were numerous restaurants with outdoor seating. Street musicians were wandering the streets playing instruments for the entertainment of and hopefully a ...

... were both very touristy. The Plaka was a pleasant surprise for us. It was still very touristy with all the shops and restaurants catering to tourists like us but the cobblestone streets and the old houses with their porches and climbing vines made for a ...

... ? Amazing architecture. Athens is awesome if you know where to go. I ventured everywhere all by myself. Lots of restaurants, cafes, shops etc. I think I'm going to come back here again and see the other islands. I'm going to Mykonos tommorow ...

... Zeus, the old (1896) Olympic Stadium, and Hadrian's Arch, before dropping us off in the unpleasantly touristy Plaka area of restaurants and shops not far from the downtown area. We were fortunate that we arrived on a weekend and avoided Athens' legendary ...

... closed so our tour will wait until tomorrow. We walk through the streets, other ruin sights are mixed amongst the stores and restaurants. One thing we did notice is all the graffiti all over anyplace where they can write. It is just unbelievable and ...

Greetings folks from Athens, Greece. It appears that our Europe journey has brought us to the lovely country of Greece. As you probably know by now we had a slight one-day delay in Bari due to Pope Benedicts visit to the area. Instead of catching the ...

... San Diego.....sometimes it's hard to believe we were in Cyprus so many miles away from home. On the 18th we flew to Athens, Greece after crossing thru the "green line" and back into southern Cyprus which is the Greek side of the island. Lunch was ...

Today we flew from Istanbul to Athens, Greece. Athens was host to the 2004 Olympics. They made many improvements to the city including a new airport, highway into the city and an underground metro.  There are about 11 million people in Greece ...

Day 2 Athens, Greece 4/7/09 WOW!!!!!, Athens is amazing. We first woke up and had a chocolate chip muffin and orange juice from a bakery from down the street (yum). I walked out the door and, boom, the Parthenon was right there in all its ...

Tuesday October 18 2011 Port of call: Piraeus and Athens, Greece Temperature 21c (69F) West winds and sunny Well, we got the A-OK from the Captain, we are clear to go.  All is good in Athens today but city wide protests are scheduled for Wednesday ...

... by 6am headed to the airport for our flight back to Athens and then Los Angeles. I would love to return to Greece someday, and would go back to Athens for sure. It would be nice to see Delphi and points north. However, I would probably head to different ...

... pretty heavily. That evening we're not in the mood for Greek so we find a small square off Adrianou with a variety of restaurants - there's even a Starbucks - and opt for Italian food. The food, when it comes is wonderful and we all love Italian food ...

... Syngrou-Fix Metro and then took a bus down to the hotel.  We freshened up and headed out for dinner to a strip of restaurants located near the Syngrou-Fix metro station.  After dinner, we headed home and packed up.  So hard to believe this ...

... a very cute town and beautiful, but obviously dead for the winter season. but it has been nice to get out of athens and see a different, smaller side to greece. it was exaclty what we were looking for. next, Katie is headed home to the U.S and i am off ...

... our hotel, the Magna Grecia Boutique Hotel.  It's a pretty cool little place, almost hidden away among the shops and restaurants.  After we got settled in, we took a brief stroll around our neighborhood, called Plaka, before we sat down to get ...

... a total population for Greece of 11 million, since there was no shortage of prestige cars and people spending money in expensive restaurants and shops. The spectrum weighs heavily in favour of the poorer people though and the cheaper shops and markets are ...