Sunday, June 14, 2009

random photos athens, I

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Parliament building (formerly the castle) at Syntagma square - the place where "everything begins" when arriving in Athens.
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First food encounter - not impressed. Vegetarian spinach stew with way too much dill and salt. Dry bread. Soggy fries. And a sugaroverload cake thing.
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Hadrian's arch, symbolic gate of the city
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Acropolis seen from the temple of Zeus garden, the grass is filled with clover with a lovely fragrance
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Temple of Zeus
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One of too many stray dogs - which will have their very own blog post. Of course.
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The scent of Athens - orange blossoms, these at the national garden
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The pretty Zappeion conference centre opposite the national garden
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First glimpse of the tomb of the unknown soldier guarded by the Evzones - more of that later, from dog's point of view
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My fondest food memory from Athens - the divine fresh fruit juices
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Too much of the cheap touristy trinkets in old township Plaka
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Acropolis even has its own subway station
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My random impressions of Athens in words can be found in this post

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I enjoyed Athens very much. I feel badly about the stray dogs, though.

Paz

Pia K said...

Thanks, Paz, stay tuned for more to come...:) And those unfortunate stray ones...

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