Athens Travel Blogs - Page 4

In my trip to Greece in 2007...From the Airport to the city is not more than 1/2 hour, but the strong heat makes you want to wear some fresh shorts as soon as possible. The hotel Grande Bretagne overlooking Syntagma Square, the Parliament building and the ancient Acropolis was the ideal base to di…

  We walked to the Acropolis. It was a fine sunny day for photographing the massive ancient columns and we used up most of our remaining film. It never made sense to go home with unused film. While talking to a couple of Australian girls, another familiar down under voice, heavily disguised …

The title says most of it. I took a once in a lifetime shot at knocking two things off my life list; a trip to Greece and running a marathon. It was a great weekend despite the pain I'll live with for the next few days. All said it was good friends, good food, great enviroment, and incredible glimpse back in time.

Greece was our final destination for our Euro Trip 2009. We only had the opportunity to visit Meteora, Delphi & Athens, but these places were wonderful :)

    Don't get me wrong, I have dreamed of going to Athens since I was a little boy, but the reality of its current state and the image in my head were quite different. Athens has the history that I love: the Acropolis, Zeus' Temple, the Ancient Agora, Panathianiko Stadium (where the …

Peter and I arrived at Hellinikon airport now known as the Eleftheros Venizelos Athens International Airport serving the Olympic city in Athens at 14:20 hrs aboard a Lufthansa flight. I have not returned to Greece since I hear the new airport is quite something. Anyway on arrival Paulos had someone…

All right...so I've published some of my horizontal photos (I can't rotate them on this computer yet and Travbuddy doesn't seem to allow me to do that here, either...but I'm working on it!).They are from the first two days of the trip--when we visited the Acropolis, the Agora, several temples, etc.…

I am finally in Greece! It was a long trip to get here.  Tomorrow, my flight leaves to Istanbul, Turkey. My last day at the pink palace was a-ok.  Nick was really not feeling so hot so we hung out in the air conditioning upstairs in the internet room and I read Harry Potter while he tri…

Off to the airport. It was an easy ride on the Metro and we got there in plenty of time. Got through security and to our gate to hang out for about an hour. Finally boarding the plane and when we get to our seats there is an elderly lady in my seat. She said she has hip problems and asked if I woul…

After a good night's sleep, we were up pretty early to get showered and something to eat. As I think I've mentioned, the bath was roughly the size of a shoebox, so the bathroom flooded a little bit when I was washing my hair, but never mind! Breakfast was amazing - we were really glad we weren't p…

Mykonos, Santorini, & Athens

We set off for the metro about 8, I don't know why, but I have a thing about taking the public transport of the countries I visit, I love seeing the different ways they work. Crazy, possibly.When we finally reached the Acropolis it was, as expected, breathtaking. We walked up through the Propylaia …

On our last full day in Athens, we visited the National Gallery, which had a fantastic temporary exhibition of the works of Iakovidis.  Aside from that, the rest of the Gallery was amazing.  Although the Iakovidis exhibition is ending this weekend (Jan 30, 06), you should go to the Galler…

Eating & Seeing The World in 90 Days.

My wife and I spent 15 days traveling around Greece and the Greek Islands. The people, the food, and the archaeological sites exceeded all of our expectations.