Greece pictures

[mustang84]

I said I would post them sometime and here they are...pictures from my Greece trip in March. It's a beautiful country...we stayed in Athens for four days, taking some side trips to the Temple of Poseidon in Sounion and Aegina Island.

DAY ONE

View from our hotel

At the top of Lykabettos Hill, 700 feet above the city

An Athens street

1896 and 2004 Olympics stadium

Temple of Zeus and the Acropolis in the distance

This column at Zeus was blown over by a windstorm in the 1800s and has been that way ever since

Lykabettos Hill (left) and the Acropolis (right)

Me

Greek sculpture

The Stoa

[mustang84]

Sparkling clean Athens Metro

Temple of Thissos at night

DAY TWO

Bus ride to Sounion

Reminds me of SoCal scenery

Cargo ships heading for the ports at Piraeus

Temple of Poseidon at the tip of Greece

Poseidon

It was so windy that day! Gusts were probably approaching 80 mph

Caught in Poseidon's fury

Greek highway

Enjoying the day

[mustang84]

DAY THREE: Aegina Island

Port of Piraeus

Fast asleep

Boarding our ferry...the AIAS boat! (American Institute of Architecture Students = AIAS)

One of the few highrises in Greece

Industry

Cargo ship

Our destination in the distance

Resort city of Aegina

Waterfront

Byzantine church

[mustang84]

DAY THREE Cont'd

Nice view of the island

Temple of Aephea

crystal clear ocean water

Audi TT

My friends on a rock

Our rental, a Renault Clio

Da Clio

Sunset before boarding the ferry back to the mainland

[mustang84]

DAY FOUR: Back in Athens

Lykabettos Hill

Greek theater

The Propylea...entrance gate to the Acropolis

The Parthenon in extreme wide angle

Parthenon

Temple of Athena Nike

Nike again

City before leaving

Athens is just gigantic...our hotel was near this square

Edited April 13, 2007 by mustang84

[AAS]

Wow... awesome pics. I'm bummed that I didn't get to see Greece when I went to Europe in '04.

[Oracle of Delphi]

WOW, some of those buildings look very old!!!!

[mustang84]

WOW, some of those buildings look very old!!!!

Lol...it's hard to believe it, but even the apartment building that I'm staying in here in Rome is older than anything in America.

[Oracle of Delphi]

Lol...it's hard to believe it, but even the apartment building that I'm staying in here in Rome is older than anything in America.

Appartamento vecchio!

Edited April 13, 2007 by Pontiac Custom-S

[loki]

very nice! i so want to see this part of the world someday. and while in the area hiagha sophia (sp?) in istanbul

[pow]

Very cool. Thanks for the pictures. Athens looks wonderful all lit up.

We're going to Europe this summer (HS graduation trip), and Greece will be one the countries we're visiting. We'll be island hopping from Athens to Mykonos to Kusadasi to Patmos to Rhodes to Heraklion to Santorini.

[ocnblu]

Beautiful pictures, Mustang.

[VenSeattle]

Very nice pics! Thank you for sharing also!

[trinacriabob]

Appartamento vecchio!

Appartamento con un bidet pieno di cacca! Now that I have your attention!

Great pictures, Mustang...thank you! BTW, I don't know where in Rome you hang your hat, but other than my 1st cousin near Bracciano, I have other cousins who live a couple of blocks from the Metro station called "Re di Roma," on a side street from Via Taranto.

A couple of Athens comments:

The metro really is nice, especially for a southern European city. In 2002, you couldn't yet take it all the way to the airport.

Did you see the hourly changing of the guard ceremony at Syntagma Square where those dudes wear those skirts and those shoes that appear to have pom-poms?

A lot of cats in Greece, right?

The food kicks ass, right?

I'm more partial to Portugal and Spain, but I will probably get back to Greece within the next 3 years...it was very relaxing in the more rural areas and the islands.

[mustang84]

Appartamento con un bidet pieno di cacca! Now that I have your attention!

Great pictures, Mustang...thank you! BTW, I don't know where in Rome you hang your hat, but other than my 1st cousin near Bracciano, I have other cousins who live a couple of blocks from the Metro station called "Re di Roma," on a side street from Via Taranto.

A couple of Athens comments:

The metro really is nice, especially for a southern European city. In 2002, you couldn't yet take it all the way to the airport.

Did you see the hourly changing of the guard ceremony at Syntagma Square where those dudes wear those skirts and those shoes that appear to have pom-poms?

A lot of cats in Greece, right?

The food kicks ass, right?

I'm more partial to Portugal and Spain, but I will probably get back to Greece within the next 3 years...it was very relaxing in the more rural areas and the islands.

My apartment is right off Via Labicana, basically about 5 minutes from the Colosseum. We missed the changing of the guard...I think it happens on Sundays, but we decided to go to Poseidon instead since it was sunny that day. Cats and dogs everywhere in Greece...in fact, they had a petting zoo in the National Gardens with two donkeys, three roosters, a turtle, and cats all in the same pen. We burst out laughing when we saw that...I mean, those animals obviously go together well! And yes, the food was great...they really feed you there; you don't leave until you're stuffed.

I should post up my Naples pics so everyone can see how $h!ty it is.

[trinacriabob]

Greek theater

Hey, didn't anyone tell them the steps aren't to code?