Photojournal: Athens, Greece

Finished up the weekend with a quick stop in Athens. How to do a city in a day:

Plan ahead
Get lodging in the city center or near a good metro stop
Get a ticket for the hop-on-hop-off bus (most have wifi and all have English guide in the headphones)
Don’t be disappointed if you can’t squeeze in all the must-dos
Take lots of photos instead of spending a ton of time buying souvenirs
Have fun

Animals roam free in Greece. It’s a thing. Leave people’s pets alone and they’ll leave you alone…

alleyways = cats. especially in Greece.

usually i take my dinner without cat fur and litter paws but when in Greece…

dogs from free in Greece. they couldn’t care less about humans. they have their own things to do.

22 hours in Athens…

ruins of the Temple of Zeus

I actually wasn’t that moved by this

slovaki!

whole bus to myself

in these streets

really enjoyed being in Monastiraki. Acropolis is always overhead

bruh. I live for crepes.

i LIVE!

Acropolis up on the hill. Acropolis means “citadel on the hill”.

wild tangerines

Athens is actually Athena. You know, goddess of wisdom. So owls. #iLive

owls everywhere

more owls

so there’s no hummus in Athens. go figure. here’s a salad though.

hostel breakfast

“the government gives immunity to the heroin dealer”. problems everywhere.

inside the Propylaia, monument of the entrance of the sanctuary of Acropolis

Propylaia. 437-432 BC

the Parthenon, temple dedicated to Athena. 432 BC

the Old Temple of Athena. 525-500 BC

Theatre of Dionysos 342 – 326 BC

look at the huge circumference of these columns

Theatre of Herodes Atticus. AD 161-174

archaeologists using the smallest brushes in the world to sweep inside the smallest cracks in the world

guessing I can’t get this marble at Lowe’s

look at my tiny tourists

the Old Temple of Athena

how’d they get this crane up here? i’m guessing piece by piece

sanctuary of Asklepios. 6th century BCE.

temple of Apollo Patroos way over there. 340-320 BC

Theatre of Herodes Atticus. AD 161-174

hey! look who it is! my same friends from China that I met and took photos with in Santorini. they were with a huge group but spotted and recognized me immediately (of course). flagged me down for another photo.

Theatre of Herodes Atticus. AD 161-174

group of Greek students learning about Greek history in Greece. what pride in your heritage and homeland that must instill. too bad as a black American I’ll never know what that’s like.