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Tag: Acropolis

Posted on February 28, 2025February 28, 2025

Athens 2025 – Day Three – Everybody out!

I have to admit that I did consider using a much more provocative image than the one actually shown for today but one of armed riot police might have been offputting! “transport, flights, and ferries” Let’s step back a bit. When we arrived on Wednesday there was a notice pinned inside the tiny lift that …

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Posted on February 27, 2025February 28, 2025

Athens 2025 – Day Two – My Legs Hurt!

After yesterday’s success, I did consider getting ChatGPT to write the whole of this blog post, but unsurprisingly, having not actually been there with us, the suggested post read more like a travel guide than anything that I would have written, so this is me again. Today was a bit of a greatest hits tour …

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Posted on March 2, 2019March 1, 2019

Athens 2019 – Day Three – The Good and the Bad of Athens

When we got up this morning it was to bad news. We had read and had been warned that Athens could be bad for pickpockets. Unfortunately one of our party had fallen prey to this and had lost their wallet. This must have happened in the short distance from the restaurant to the hotel last …

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