Athens Travel Blogs - Page 20

We arrived at the port of Piraeus in the morning.  You could see sprawling Athens in every direction.  Practically every building is white, which makes the dense urbanization even more apparent blotting out most of the green except for the very tops of steep hills and mountains.  We …

Destination Mykonos, heard they get wild on the beaches. Cubist style of architecture was very interesting.

My trip to Europe was truly amazing!I saw all of the major tourist attractions. It was a truly awesome trip.

We get up early at 07:00, prepare ourselves immediately to go for breakfast. We had to get up that early, because we planned a visit to the Acropolis. If you do up too late, it is a big crowd and you can’t look at all the buildings without getting disturbed. At 07:30 we go up the mountain to the …

No pensaba estar ahí, antes de conocer Egipto o Rusia que son mis viajes soñados...pero así es esto de los viajes...llegan cuando menos lo piensas...al menos así funciona para mi.

two cites i went to

Well the majority of this entry is set in Athens anyway. We arrived in Athens in the afternoon. Jill wanted us to take a bus to the outskirts of the town then walk to a youth hostel that might not even have beds. We rebelled and walked off looking for a hotel in the near vicinity. Funnily enough th…

Tales from the Europe part of my RTW 2003 trip, a 21 day Contiki tour from London to Athens, or at least what I can remember of it :)

We took the long ferry back (33 euro each) to Athens. After we checked into our hotel and got a good nights rest we bought an all day travel pass (only 3 euro each!) Most of the tourist sites are all on one line. We visited the Acropolis and the new museum near it first. If you like old ruins …

i've finally managed to escape the oh-so-fascinating world of hedge fund finance, and am now decadently indulging my long-suppressed wanderlust with 15 months on the road and around the world... *note: apart from the odd review (generally of something not found in your standard guide book), this is really more just a map of my travels than a proper blog, but if you want more information on anywhere i`ve been or what i`ve been up to, send me a message and i`ll see if i can rustle something up.

It came as a bolt from the blue...the trip to Athens. Official, I converted it into leisure and I must say I really enjoyed the break, though I was travelling alone. While Athens did not knock me off my balance..it was cool. I loved walking around Plaka with its amazing shopping gullies, overlooking the Acropolis. Yes, how can I forget digging into a grilled Octopus. People back home want to disown me for that. Disturbing part of Athens (atleast near Omonia), junkies rule.

Inpakken maar want ik ga weer eens op vakantie. Ellen (mijn zus) bracht me naar Schiphol, dat vrij dicht in de buurt is dus daar waren we zo. Het vliegtuig vertrok prima op tijd maar veel uitzicht had ik niet want we zaten al gauw midden in een wolkendek. We vlogen met een A310 en onderweg mochten …

Three weeks on the rails through Europe

Finally we had 4 days in Athens were we could just stay put for more than a couple of nights.  We didn’t have much time to spare for Greece and decided in the end to make a brief stop in Athens before heading across to Turkey.   So to ensure our sanity over the 4 days we spent …

For Athens I have a biased opinion, we went the year before the Olympics so there was a brand new subway which was stunning and sparkled, literally, the stations looked like museums with historical displays and such. But... there were maybe half a dozen stops and only one took us near the hot…