Eleftherios Venizelos Museum

Advantages: New, Clean
Disadvantages: Poor Implication of new security rules

...I'm sure that for most people, myself included, the quality of an airport is at the very back of ones mind when booking a holiday. You will book flights that are cheap and easy and end up where the plane goes. However, a good or bad airport still has the ability to enhance or upset the start or end of a holiday. Eleftherios Venizelos Airport was built with the 2004 Athens Olympics in mind and unlike a lot of the infrastructure for these games, was actually opened before the games in March 2001, replacing the previous international airport. As the crow flies, it is quite close to the city of Athens but due to the hills surrounding the city, it is nearer a 30km drive to the centre. There is a direct train line that will take you to the city centre (something that apparently wasn't ready in time) and for 6.00€ per person the journey... Read review

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Advantages: mind blowing, just to see and touch, such great items of history
Disadvantages: nothing.

...KOS MUSEUM, Found centrally of Kos town itself, at Eleftherios Square This is a superb little archaeological museum which was built by the Italians in the 1930s to display Greek and Roman sculptures, potteries and mosaics from the island. It provides a reminder of what an important strategic and cultural centre Kos was for ancient Greece and Rome. The museum's atrium includes a mural/mosaic showing the history of how Hippocrates welcomed Asklepius, the god of healing, to the island, also ceramics, statues and other findings are exposed as well as a statue that is believed to represent Hippocrates, the father of scientific medicine. Close to the Museum is the Roman Odeon, which a lot of it is still intact, and Hippocrates tree, believed to be planted by the great man himself, it is known as the learning tree, as it is said... Read review

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Advantages: Free entry, A "feel good" museum, Suitable for all ages
Disadvantages: Cramped when busy, Visitor facilities could be better

...Once called “the noisiest museum in the world”, the Museum of Childhood is probably one of Edinburgh’s most popular cultural attractions if visitor figures are anything to go by – which is not bad going for a city so crammed full of museums as galleries as Edinburgh is. I happened to be at the museum in late January doing some research, and rather enjoyed my visit there. Granted, I was not your average visitor in this sense, but by now I probably know more about the museum than you would ever want to read! The Museum of Childhood claims to be the oldest museum of its kind in the world. I say “claims” because nobody is really quite sure if this is true, and as the curator says, they haven’t been contradicted yet! They are certainly the oldest museum of childhood in Britain, anyway (there... Read review

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