Date(s): September 24-27, 2015. Album by David Clement. 1 - 95 of 95 Total. 26 Visits.
1 just arrived at the airport; subway to Syntagma Square
2 was looking for Electra Palace Hotel first, but my hotel (Electra Hotel) was much more convenient, only a couple hundred metres from the Syntagma Square metro stop!
3 delicious tzatziki
4 and moussaka
5 walking around after dinner - can see the Acropolis
6 Alexis Tsipras poster - not too many signs of Greek debt default though
7 we bought our house last night!! this is my first full day, on the walk to the Acropolis; this is Monastiraki Square
8 Odeon of Herodes Atticus
9 Propylaea
10 Parthenon
11 Odeon of Herodes Atticus again
12 Theatre of Dionysus
13 Temple of Olympian Zeus in foreground and Panathinaiko Stadium in background
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15 Erechtheion
16 Erechtheion close up
17 Lycabettus Hill
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22 Agora
23 looking back up at Acropolis
24 Temple of Hephaestus
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26 Museum at Agora
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28 Church of Panagia Kapnikarea on Ermou St, just down the street from my hotel
29 Syntagma Square
30 changing of the guard on every hour
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33 fried halloumi
34 kebabs
35 many restaurants in squares or with sidewalk seating
36 the next day at Delphi
37 Temple of Apollo
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40 much cooler day than the last time I was here (when I was 17 months old)
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42 stadium - Pythian Games rank second among the four stephanitic games chronologically and based on importance
43 what Delphi would have looked like
44 at the Delphi Museum
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46 about to get back on the bus for the ride back to Athens - met a Cornell grad and his wife at lunch
47 Arachova, there's a ski resort near here in the winter
48 our bus stopped at a touristy shop for half an hour!
49 Hadrian's Arch
50 Temple of Olympian Zeus with Acropolis in the background
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52 Panathinaiko Stadium, host of 1896 Olympics, and the 1906 Intercalated Games
53 5 Euros to enter the stadium
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55 royal box
56 tunnel that the athletes would use to enter the stadium
57 Billy Sherring, the Canadian who won the marathon at the 1906 games - these games got the Olympic movement back on track
58 posters of all the previous Summer Olympic sites were in this room
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85 Olympic host cities, part 1
86 Olympic host cities, part 2
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88 out front of Presidential Palace
89 climbing up Lycabettus Hill
90 300 meters high
91 Acropolis and Aegean Sea
92 panorama
93 little church at the top
94 took a funicular down
95 Athens metro, only comes every 30 minutes. Went to airport and flew to LHR on this Sunday night
