David & I are BAD BAD BLOGGERS who haven't blogged in forever. We're blogging our honeymoon so that we remember what happened each day because we're both bad at remembering specific things.
Day 1: Tuesday
We arrived in Athens in the morning and slept a LOT. We stayed at Athens Center Square, which was a trendy and small colorful hotel across the street from a neat fruit market. We didn't have much of a game plan, so we spent the afternoon just wandering around and learning how to take pictures with our very first facy-ish camera.
We saw some neat graffiti - a lot more, and artsier than what you'd normally see in NYC:
And we saw a bunch of really old cool Greek Orthodox churches, but we were wearing shorts & were blatantly touristy so we only peeked and didn't go in:
The pigeons were about the same...more "dove" type ones than we have in NY. These were in front of Parliament:
There were a lot of nifty-looking doors:
We stumbled upon the National Botanic Gardens, but not much was in bloom. The air was better though:
We had dinner at a restaurant called Oineas in the Psyrii district that had great food, like this honey/filo/feta cheese pastry, and massive shared plate of a variety of meat + fries:
And then, we went back to the hotel, which in itself is kind of cool looking. Here are pictures of Athens Center Square's brightly colored outside, the brightly colored Alpha-Quest looking hallway, and the tiny mirrored elevator:
Notably, the rooftop of the hotel was pretty neat, with a great view of the Acropolis lit up at night. It's apparently a trendy bar during the summer, but I think that's stopped for the year because we've had the rooftop to ourselves every time we've gone up.
Thus, we can play around & take obligatory kissing pictures in front of the giant light up pots!
Day 1: Tuesday
We arrived in Athens in the morning and slept a LOT. We stayed at Athens Center Square, which was a trendy and small colorful hotel across the street from a neat fruit market. We didn't have much of a game plan, so we spent the afternoon just wandering around and learning how to take pictures with our very first facy-ish camera.
We saw some neat graffiti - a lot more, and artsier than what you'd normally see in NYC:
And we saw a bunch of really old cool Greek Orthodox churches, but we were wearing shorts & were blatantly touristy so we only peeked and didn't go in:
The pigeons were about the same...more "dove" type ones than we have in NY. These were in front of Parliament:
And here's Parliament for real, complete with stiff guards:
There were a lot of nifty-looking doors:
We played with shutter speed settings on the camera:
We had dinner at a restaurant called Oineas in the Psyrii district that had great food, like this honey/filo/feta cheese pastry, and massive shared plate of a variety of meat + fries:
And then, we went back to the hotel, which in itself is kind of cool looking. Here are pictures of Athens Center Square's brightly colored outside, the brightly colored Alpha-Quest looking hallway, and the tiny mirrored elevator:
Notably, the rooftop of the hotel was pretty neat, with a great view of the Acropolis lit up at night. It's apparently a trendy bar during the summer, but I think that's stopped for the year because we've had the rooftop to ourselves every time we've gone up.
Thus, we can play around & take obligatory kissing pictures in front of the giant light up pots!
Day 1 - the end.
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