Do As The Greeks Do

Athens is one of my favorite places. It's beautiful and I can honestly say the people are really friendly. The Greek alphabet is wild. Thank God, most of their signs are translated into our Alphabet underneath their language.

All of our Hotels in Europe were beautiful (it is why I was in charge of that). Loved, The Stanley in Athens. It was truly great. We had dinner and drinks on the roof of the hotel and you could see the Parthenon. It was incredible. I also had my first drink! I wanted to accomplish that before I turned 21 and I did. I had a "Sex On The Beach" and it was very nice. There was even a balcony and even though I didn't really use it, I liked having the option!

​The first day there we went to the beach. Athens isn't known for it's beaches, but it has a few and we were there in the off season so they weren't crowded. It was called Varkiza and it was a very pleasant two hours. Public transit in Athens is very well set up and even when we had to take the bus, I didn't mind it.

We split up the ancient world over two days, but we did most of the iconic Athens sight seeing on the Thursday. We went to the Acropolis Museum, that way we didn't have to hire a tour guide. We could read about everything, what it all means, and then go see it. The coolest part is that because I'm a student of the European Union, I got in for free!!! The cost for all the Ancient sights and the museum would have been about 25 euros, so it was a blessing. We had breakfast in the museum and let me tell you of all the places I've been Greek food is my favorite. No matter where we got it, the food was amazing. I really enjoyed it. I got these things called "pancakes" I don't know what they were, but they were really good.

The ruins above are from the Temple of Zeus, but my personal favorite was the Temple of Hephaestus. It was clearly a lot smaller, but it was the most intact. Funny, enough Hephaestus was the God of craftsmanship, sooooo it seems everything worked out well for him. 

I understand know why the Greeks and the Turks don't get along. Everything we read involved the Turks invading or destroying and I personally understand the dislike. One of the ancient sights was standing until the 1500 or 1600s, but due to Turk mishandling (they stored gun powder in it) the sight was destroyed. I got a brief overview of Greece's history and I can see why they don't get along. I wouldn't like them either.