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Advantages: Vibrant, cheap excellent public transport. Famous historic sites. Eating out Disadvantages: Not as 'Greek' as it used to be. Poor air quality. The drivers!
when in use as a gunpowder store, get off the Metro at Thission and pay 4? to enter the old Agora (market area). If nothing else there's a magnificent view of the Acropolis from here, and hardly a crane in sight! The temple is in quiet gardens, the tranquillity of which is only broken by a whistle blowing, followed by 'Come out of there!' in English every time someone strays onto something they shouldn't. This is remarkably easy to do, as it's not obvious where you shouldn't be treading sometimes. It's a curious sight to see a modern metro train snaking its way to Piraeus past the structure.
Of course, the 2004 Olympics put Athens back into everyone's consciousness, but if you don't want to trek out to the new Stadium area to marvel at new buildings, why not visit the 'old' stadium, host to the first Olympics of the 'modern' era, i ...
BNibbles 30.11.2007 (06.09.2008)
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