get ready kids for the brightest city in the world- ATHENS (ah it's so white!!!)
April 27th 2009 We originally wanted to island hop through the Aegean Greek islands to Athens, but as the summer tourist season had not quite started, the ferry services were too unreliable. So we caught a sleeper train from Istanbul to Thessaloniki, which proved to be a thousand times more luxurious than that Vietnamese overnight train of absolute hell (and vomit). We felt like royalty, as we had a little cabin
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Greece achieved its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1829. During the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, it gradually added neighboring islands and territories, most with Greek-speaking populations. In Worl... ... read more 
