Blogs from Athens, Attica, Greece, Europe - page 109

Greece, 2006 Athens Aegina Hydra Poros Cape Sounion Tolo Olympia Delphi Mycenae Arachova Epidaurus For my first trip to Europe this was quite the way to start. An absolutely amazing trip that I don't have the time to re-cap at the moment. I will explain in great detail at a later date. ... read more

after all of my blabbering on my last blog entry, i realized i completely forgot to tell you why we are lost in translation. you see, we have managed to fill up two 1GB memory cards...so over 1900 pictures. and in the course of making sure we see everything and snap all those pictures, we have little time to transfer them onto a cd and then post them. well we decided that we would tackle that task today. so here we are at the biggest mall possibly in greece....very westernized...we feel very at home... except for the indoor smoking...and begin walking around to find a place to transfer our pictures so that we can erase the card and start over. which by the way, scares me half to death. but we walk all 4 levels and ... read more

Athens does not appeal to alot of people due to the hustle and bustle of the place but it is definately worth a stop over to visit the Acropolis and the Ancient History that you can feel there.... read more

We had to set the alarm, as we had to finish seeing the sights of Athens before we caught the bus to Litohoro. Breakfast was an apple, I really miss my regular breakfasts already. The plan was to go to The National Archaelogical Museum which is regarded as one of the world's best museums. The guy on reception gave us directions, but we still needed help in finding it, but in Athens this isn't a problem. The history in the museum is amazing. I love my history, and there is so much to read that we resorted to taking photos of the historical information so we could stick to our tight timeline. The marble and stone artefacts were the highlight for us, and while the gold, bronze and vase exhibitions were interesting they didn't compare as ... read more

Since I looked after myself yesterday I was up early, and went to the gym which made me feel good about myself. Today we leave for Athens, and we will be in Greece for eleven/twelve days. It didn't take long to pack, as we are only taking 2 backpacks (1 big, 1 small). We had to wash some clothes as well, and after two trips to the laundromat dryer the clothes were nearly dry. We said goodbye to Kez, having said goodbye to Rod earlier, and we were off. Missing the 12.57 train wasn't a good start, but we had plenty of time an the 13.16 was fine. We changed at West Ham, and then Green Park before arriving at Heathrow right on 15.00. Beck somehow slept on the train with her head in the most ... read more