Advantages: fun, charming and diverting city with plenty of interesting things to see and do; great variety of bars and restaurants Disadvantages: has some shonky areas, may bring you to spend more than you'd like
...in this interesting town.
Athens is about 70 miles from Atlanta, anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half drive depending on various things - the traffic, whether there is a thunderstorm present, or if someone has managed to cark it somewhere along the road and has thus blocked it in some manner. Once you're out of the suburban and ugly sprawl of Atlanta you'll take a flat and boring road devoid of fairly much anything you might want to look ... ...but not bad either.
Athens is an interesting and often charming city. It has its disreputable quarters, as all cities of size do, but the downtown area is very trendy, very young, has plenty of things to do, especially if you wish to bend the elbow, and is in itself quite pretty, especially with the large City Hall presiding over everything. It's well worth a weekend trip, or perhaps even longer, and is a prime destination for students looking for ...
adamsputnik 05.06.2004
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