When your best friend decides to spend a year living in a foreign land, it is a great excuse to go travelling. Throw in a free bed, reduced flights through my job and a bank holiday weekend and it seemed stupid not to fly out to Athens for the second time this year. My girlfriend and I had ... Read review
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Advantages: Lovely Little Island Disadvantages: Poor Beaches
When your best friend decides to spend a year living in a foreign land, it is a great excuse to go travelling. Throw in a free bed, reduced flights through my job and a bank holiday weekend and it seemed stupid not to fly out to Athens for the second time this year. My girlfriend and I had previously been out in January and had done most of the big things that Athens has to offer but this time my future sister-in-law and her boyfriend joined us so ... ...country for a day longer and we wanted to do something new and exciting, we decided to visit the island of Aegina.
Aegina is the biggest island in the Sarconic Gulf and is located about 30 miles off shore from Athens. It has had quite an interesting history throughout ancient times where it was once a major power alongside Athens but today it is a sleepy little outlet from the hectic Athens city life and many Athenians own second homes on the island.
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Last year, I found out that my boyfriend would be going to a conference in Athens in June '08. I immediately decided that whether he wanted me to or not, I was going to be coming along. Well, not to the conference or anything but to Athens. I'd never... more
