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Monday, July 30, 2018

Walking Around Historical Sights (Athens, Greece)

When my friend and I got back to Athens, we decided to get the 5 day pass to see all the historical sights in Athens.  Sights that were included in the pass were the following:  Acropolis and slopes, Ancient Agora, Hadrian's Library (closes at 3pm so I never made it in), Kerameiko's, Aristotle's School (Lykeion(would not recommend seeing this because it's out of the way and nothing much to see at all)), Olympieion, and Roman Agora.  The pass is 30 euros for adults, 15 for students.  You can not go to a sight more than once.  It was so very hot in Athens, but since I had never been there before I wanted to see EVERYTHING!!  My friend and I walked a lot on the first day of seeing the sights.  It was so hot and tiring that my friend said she would have to pass on sight seeing the next day.  Luckily when I started my day at Kerameikos I asked a girl from Brazil to take a photo for me and we ended up spending the day together sight seeing.  It was a super tiring day because we went everywhere and for the sunset we went up a very tall hill.  We went up so many steps and slopes that I felt like I had taken a shower I was sweating so much.  However, the sunset was great and it was worth the effort.  The next day my friend and I left Athens.  I flew to Budapest and she flew to Paris.  I almost forgot to take her photo wearing my glasses, so I had to take it at the airport! Thanks for a great week TaƱa!!!  It was our forth continent together!


theater
beautiful view
blue skies
gorgeous
sun beaming through
I'm so small compared to it
different angle
view of Athens
Greek flag
in Acropolis
traveling for a week together in Greece
cool pillars
another incredible building
a smaller theater
nice statue
arch
soooo big!
breath taking
in ancient agora
cheese!
wild tortoise
walking around
so hot in the middle of the day
looks like a picture
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impressive
Acropolis in the distance
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Mykonos, Greece

My friend had a friend who was in Mykonos and told her that his friend could get us a great deal for a hotel room by the beach in Mykonos.  So we took a ferry from Athens to Mykonos.  The ferry took 5 hours, but was worth it because the island was beautiful.  The waters were so clear and swimming was so nice! We even got to be shown around a little bit on our first day.  The other days we were on our own, but we had a wonderful time exploring the town and swimming. I didn't bring my snorkel on this trip, but since the water was so clear I decided to buy one and truly enjoy the crystal clear waters. 

crystal clear
empty beach

luckily her friend had a car to drive us here
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red sliver of the moon
walking towards the town
stunning
boats, boats
pebbles
so clear

little venice
blue and white houses everywhere
the beach i snorkeled a lot at
just before getting into the town area
windmills
mini waves

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Athens Free Walking Tour (Greece)

A friend of mine who I haven't seen in 8 years was in Europe and we decided that we had to meet somewhere in Europe.  We both haven't been to Greece, so we chose to meet there.  By chance another friend of mine and her boyfriend were going to be in Athens at the exact same time.  I got a message from a tour guide about his free walking tour in Athens.  I looked at the information and it looked pretty good, so I convinced my friends to join me for the walk.  We all had a wonderful time and got to see a lot of cool things.  We learned a lot about the city and at the end of the tour, we got to try some great Greek food.  If you go to Athens, you should check out his tour. At night my friends and I watched an old Greek movie in the Odeon of Herodes Atticus.  It was really cool and there was a person who played the piano during the entire movie.  It was very impressive.  It was a wonderful first full day in Athens.

first stop of the free walking tour
ancient ruins on display in the metro station
different layers of the city grounds
grave
museum?  nope, in the metro
lots of stuff on display
old mosaic floor
Greek writing
old old stuff
in front of the parliament
close up of one of the guards
giving respect to the unknown soldier
interesting uniform
cool artwork
display for old greek movies
nice walkway
cool art
flying wire statues
getting a sticker for answering a question correctly
looks like trump's profile
nice artwork
beautiful painting
and one last one
interesting symbols
interesting gate
group photo
beautiful building
Athena
nice close up
Plato and Socrates
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my group within the group
South Africa
Czech Republic (already pictured)
the group
in front of a university
each woman represents a different field of study
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Argentina
great place to get fresh squeezed juices
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ruins within the city grounds
church thats 2,000 years old
listening to why the church is below regular street level (dust)
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inside the old church
nice interior
people kiss the frame when they enter the church
and they kiss this frame too
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beautiful street art
nice store front art
nice street
another old church
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inside the street market area
a river running under the city
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more ruins around the city
the Acropolis in the distance
Ancient Agora
jewelry sold on the streets
Haden's library
ancient agora
between the leaves
olives
nice flowers
one of many street cats
another old church
the inside
awesome graffiti
great view of the city
lunch...we got to try 8 different greek dishes
interesting sweets shop
smelled so sweet. didn't want to get anything from here, haha