Anyways, enough of that for now, my flight to Athens involved me getting up at 3am due to my early takeoff but a pre-takeoff beer calmed the senses! I flew with Easyjet and everything was spot on.
Arrived in Greece on time before finding my way to the Metro, and after trying to pay in English money, I was on my way to Ministeriaki and past the aptly name Doukissis Plakentias station.
Found my hotel fine, dropped off the backage and off I went to explore. The three nights and four days took in the City bus tour for around two hours, Athens walking tour, Piraeus port, Olypiakos stadium, the Athens Olympic games site and the local cuisine and ale.
I got around a bit and even bought a T-Shirt with Greek phrases on to fill the tourist mould. Athens and its history is breaktaking - if you haven't seen it you should put it on the to do list.
But Athens and its present isn't always so pretty. My hotel was fine but the surronding area was a little sketchy, most folks don't bother you or at least you can turn away from their "damn, tourist" stares but some aren't so happy to have travelling-alone tourists in their neighbourhood.As long as you don't flaunt things there is no major danger. I got into a few minor "situations", one of them was my fault or should I say the local ale's fault! But no serious harm done and the cooling off period in my hotel room resulted in me becoming acquainted with CNN's news coverage - so a happy ending.
Overall, I would go back but it is only a city break type of place. If you went for a week you would need to go and see other islands or branch out more than I did.
As amazing as the historical sites are, once you have seen them, you have seen them, but it is still a break I won't forget, even if my camera broke on the walking tour, resulting in me having no pictures of the Acropolis site which you could see from the hotel. A thorougly enjoyable experience of a totally different culture.
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