 | Athens
2009-06-09, Athens, Greece. By: acapps | | I was not real impressed with Athens! |
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 | The Acropolis etc.
2009-04-06, Athens, Greece. By: lydian | | Most of our experiences in Athens have somehow involved the Acropolis, the big hill with the Parthenon and other temples on top. Somehow, we have ended up climbing it once each day for the past 3 day... |
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| We´re like Tweedle Dum and... two other people.
2009-04-04, Athens, Greece. By: Katy | | HI EVERYONE! I´m in Greece, totally safe, great hostel, and look! They have internet access! However the typewriter is odd and I cannot find the at symbol or the question mark. So no email addresses o... |
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 | Direct words from my travel journal
2007-06-19, Athens, Greece. By: ksblond27 | | Tues. June 19, 2007 Plain 4ish at JFK Airport, Bye New York!
We just took off, and I am finally awake…I am still like Wow are we really doing this? I had a great end last night with my friends, “f... |
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 | My first Journey
2008-01-28, Athens, Greece. By: xkelleh | | I went to Greece a long time ago about 5 years ago. I want to write about it because it was my first real trip without my parents.
I remember the first day I heard of the oppertunity to go to Greec... |
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 | Ixus Axus - To Come and To Go
2008-01-11, Athens, Greece. By: kates08 | | On boxing day, as many of you already know, I headed off to Greece on my first venture away from my new home... alone!
My decision to head to Greece all begins back in University....
(cue starry d... |
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 | Grecian & Albanian adventures
2007-07-28, Athens, Greece. By: samkateb | | We took the ferry from Italy to Greece (which for a 15 hr overnight ferry was pretty painless). We arrived in Patras & headed to Korinthos for 1 night which had a nice pebble beach, although there wer... |
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 | Athens
2007-07-26, Athens, Greece. By: adsdan | | Athens is a very old city and therefore the buildings in most areas are run down and generally it is quite dirty. The metro system is first class (only due to the olympics) as we caught it from the ai... |
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 | Athens
2007-05-11, Athens, Greece. By: jake | | HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! I was quite surprised to learn that Lynnsay bought a flight to Athens the day before we arrived. She would spend the next 10 days with me as a birthday gift. It was a nice change... |
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 | so random football game?
2007-05-24, Athens, Greece. By: euroamy | | ok so an interesting time in athens. the day leaving santorini we call to try and find a hostel. no hotstels. start calling budget hotels. nothing available. finally attie asks if somethings going on.... |
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 | Time to leave Athens...
2007-04-03, Athens, Greece. By: Whitm528 | | Tuesday we left Athens. Julie and I definately covered the entire city and saw everything. Monday was nice because we had such a relaxing day and she and I were able to accomplish seeing so many wonde... |
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 | Monday April 2nd
2007-04-02, Athens, Greece. By: Whitm528 | | Today was another good day in Athens, although today was a little more relaxed. We took our time, woke up, had breakfast at the hotel and then got ready and headed over to Keramikos which included a l... |
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 | Sunday April 1st
2007-04-01, Athens, Greece. By: Whitm528 | | Hello, WOW it is already April!!! Happy Belated Fool’s Day to everyone. We had a very busy day and we once again saw so many things. We first went back to Hadrian’s Arch and the Temple of Olympian Zeu... |
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 | Saturday March 31st
2007-03-31, Athens, Greece. By: Whitm528 | | Hello again!!! We left this morning to go explore the Acropolis and we were able to see so many things already. We went first and saw the Theater of Dionysos. There are several pictures of it, it was ... |
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 | Friday March 30th
2007-03-30, Athens, Greece. By: Whitm528 | | HELLO FROM GREECE!!! So now that I’m almost done with trips I finally figured out the way to do these and I’m typing them up at the end of each day and then I will post them all at once when I get int... |
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 | More baklava please
2007-03-15, Athens, Greece. By: frankieboy | | Greece
I heard so many stories about the love/hate relationships with Athens that I really did not know what to expect. It was really easy to get around with the new subway system and overall I tho... |
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 | Confession
2006-11-16, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | Ok. I have a confession to make.
As great as Greece is, as amazing as the sites are, as the experience is of living in a foreign city, etc etc etc....
This has been the most difficult semester of ... |
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| the weekend
2006-11-14, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | So last Friday, I had a field trip to two archaeological sites, one was Brauron and the other was Sounio. Brauron did not really make an impression on me, but I loved Sounio. I had been there twice be... |
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| Perils of living in a city
2006-11-09, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | So this morning, my Aegean Art & Archaeology class was meeting in the Agora. We take the metro to Monastiraki, and get out at the square. Once there, there were some guys arguing right outside the sta... |
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| "Fucking guards!"
2006-11-08, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | That would be what I yelled last night when I was walking past one, the ones who are supposed to stand absolutely still and not say anything, and he made kissing sounds at me. See, after the moaning g... |
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| oh athens
2006-11-04, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | Ok, I haven't updated in a while...because I've been busy and generally exhausted. It has been at least 3 weeks since I have gotten a full night's sleep, and it will be soooo nice to get one tonight.
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 | Beginning of the Tan
2006-09-12, Athens, Greece. By: TeamHoki | | After a megga stressful week packing up shop in London, Olse, Chinny and I waved goodbye to England from our 747 and arrived in sunny Athens a few hours later. Bolted straight from the airport to the ... |
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 | Hello from Greece
2006-10-14, Athens, Greece. By: amillwood | | We made it to Greece and will be continuing onto Russia now we just got approved for our visas. Greece has been our best country yet.
After Strasbourg, we headed down to Colmar, France. We tried ... |
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| Kissing police and moaning guards
2006-10-12, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | Last night, as I was walking home from school, by myself, some policeman across the street started making kissing noises and continued for entirely too long after I looked at him and then away in exas... |
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| I am waging a war...
2006-10-05, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | I am waging a personal war against mosquitos, but it seems that I am losing.
Every single time I come to this country, I have a few nights where I'm asleep or trying to sleep and some damn mosquito... |
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| It's going to be a long day/weekend...
2006-10-05, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | Oh. I am so tired...and I have a long day ahead of me.
Yesterday, my Byzantium class got cancelled, so I went home around 4 or so. I was *so* excited to take a nap, because I was very tired, and I ... |
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| My Konstantine
2006-10-04, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | So I tried to write this earlier but then my computer froze up...anyway. So, I know that the song "Konstantine" is by Something Corporate and it's about a girl and they spell Constantine wrong, but I ... |
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| being ungrateful
2006-10-03, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | So, in the spirit of home/Whitman-sickness, which I have been feeling the last couple of days, I'm making a list.
Things I miss about home/Whitman/America:
-LAUNDRY. You can only accomplish so m... |
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| multiple men in my apartment
2006-10-02, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | So I woke up this morning to my doorbell buzzer thing ringing. I thought it was the cleaning lady (that's right, we have a cleaning lady that comes every week...talk about pampered) so I went and answ... |
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| um, so there's this giant bubble...
2006-09-24, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | So, I don't know what's going on but outside DIKEMES in the square in front of the stadium, there is this giant....dome, bubble, spaceship looking thing. I'm at a loss to explain what its function is,... |
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| Ikea=overwhelming
2006-09-23, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | So I just got back from Ikea. All I needed was a towel and a set of sheets, which I couldn't seem to find anywhere in central Athens for a reasonable price. Plus, I have never been to Ikea, and Sabrin... |
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| one month...
2006-09-21, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | Well, it's been exactly a month since I left home and embarked on this huge adventure. And I only just now realized that I have not changed the date on any of these entries. Woops. Oh well.
So yest... |
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| no stories, just stress
2006-08-20, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | Ok, so nothing of note has actually happened in the last day or so, so this is going to be one of those whiny posts. Basically, I don't know what happened, but yesterday was a really bad day. I felt l... |
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 | Athens to Rome - Mission!
2006-09-05, Athens, Greece. By: mattfi | | Arriving in port at 5am we made our way to central Athens.
As the luggage storage didnt open until 8am we opted to wait in the square. The three hour wait seemed to fly by, hanging out with the stra... |
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| death by rollback
2006-08-20, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | I forgot to comment that the other night I sort of got hit by a car, if you can really call it that. I was crossing the street behind a car, when it rolled back (Kolonaki=very hilly) and sorta hit me ... |
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| Byzantium=$$$
2006-08-20, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | Yeah, so, not only is my Byzantium professor...well, hot, but today I went to the library to check out a textbook, and I found 70 US dollars.
I am beginning to think this class is lucky.
Basical... |
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| My professor wears D&G
2006-08-20, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | So yesterday I had my history of Byzantium class for the first time. I know this is totally un-p.c. but wow, my professor is hot. And as the subject line says, he wears Dolce and Gabbana jeans. Tight ... |
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| yay! my voice is back!
2006-08-20, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | Actually, for some reason I'm not as celebratory as I thought I would be over the fact that my voice is basically back, but it's still nice. Anyway...so...Saturday. Um. I was a lazy bum and hung out i... |
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| so much for rest...
2006-08-20, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | My intention this weekend was primarily to rest and recover my voice somehow. Well, last night I stayed out until 5:30 AM so I got off to a bad start. but my voice is doing much better and in general ... |
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| I'm annoyed.
2006-08-20, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | Ok. Seriously. How long must one go before their voice will come back? I woke up this morning, and, since my roommate was out, I tried to literally talk to myself, just to see if my voice was back. No... |
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| I love Dayquil.
2006-08-20, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | Last night was utterly miserable. I couldn't stop coughing, which would wake me up, but my mind so desperately wanted me to be asleep. So I kept having these weird dreams that I was lost in Kolonaki (... |
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| Of course.
2006-08-20, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | Of course I'm sick on orientation day. Of course.
Actually, I'm not too sick. I just am losing my voice. I haven't been this sick since high school. Boo.
So yesterday I ended up staying here at CY... |
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| arrived, settled, etc.
2006-08-20, Athens, Greece. By: mariannas | | Ok, so I don't really have much time to write in here because I have a few emails to respond to. Basically, bus rides that take longer than 8 hours SUCK. Took the bus yesterday, came here to CYA and f... |
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 | the Fairy Ferry
2006-08-04, Athens, Greece. By: aw80sa | | Today we leave Greece. It's been almost a month. We have encountered all types of situations. We've laughed, cried, mourned, road-tripped, hiked, etc. etc. Now it is time to go. We are taking a ferry ... |
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