Blogs from Attica, Greece, Europe - page 120

We rented a car on Saturday called a Hyundai Getz!, and is considered to be mid-size. It's a little smaller than a Ford Focus. I think the only thing more challenging than trying to navigate through a strange foreign city where no one speaks English is a strange foreign city where no one speaks English and the signs are in a different alphabet altogether. By the end of Sunday I started to figure out what Athens looks like in the Greek alphabet, but other than that, we just kind of drive around until we get where we're going. Saturday night was the Easter mass, when practically the entire county was in church (similar to midnight mass). We headed up to this tiny church on the top of Lycavattus Hill, which had excellent panoramic views of Athens. ... read more

Traveling to Athens took a whole day of driving and on our way there we got to see the Corinth Canal which was a bonus. The Corinth Canal was hugely deep and long, they carved that out in 1881-93 and it's 6kms long. It's deep because it's at sea level so there's no locks needed, but these days it's too narrow so hardly any boats use it. We got up nice and early to make the most of the day, we all caught the bus into the city centre and got a little bit of a tour on the way - helped us to get our bearings and also saw the Roman Stadium where the 1896 Olympics were held. Our first stop through the famous city was the Temple of Zeus where we also found a ... read more

"They" say you must see it. Whoever they are. But they do not recommend how long you should stay. "IT" is the Acropolis. And it is quite impressive. Okay, not Angkor Wat, but impressive none the less. And really crowded to boot. Today we touched down in Athens on an Olympic Air flight from Tel Aviv to London. We chose this flight for many reasons and frequent flier miles were not one of them. Turns out that the company is in and out of bankruptcy so there isn't really any code-share to speak of. We also were not inspired by the newly updated website, which led us to an unoccupied office in Bangkok. Unoccupied for more than two years according to the new tenants. So we were drawn to this flight in much the same way ... read more

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