{"id":994,"date":"2010-10-24T22:18:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T21:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/?p=994"},"modified":"2010-10-24T23:04:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T22:04:18","slug":"athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"Athens!"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe Temple of Poseidon
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\nIf only you could have seen these colors in person. These photos do no justice.<\/p>\n

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\nA little beach where we swam in the crisp, clear, sea.<\/p>\n

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\nTemenos of Dionysos Eleuthereus<\/p>\n


\nThe Parthenon<\/p>\n

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\nOur hotel was the blue building in the center of the photograph.<\/p>\n


\nThe Erechtheum<\/p>\n


\nLooking north from the Akropolis<\/p>\n


\nBut to get a better idea of what the view really looked like, here’s an HDR photo looking west.<\/p>\n


\nThe Porch of the Caryatids<\/p>\n


\nCool street art.<\/p>\n


\nWe went to a little bar\/distillery, Brettos, that was unfortunately full of tourists.<\/p>\n


\nBut my rakomelo (raki boiled with honey from the island of Amorgos) and H’s raspberry liqueur with pineapple juice were so good that it didn’t matter. Need to go back to try the tsipouro.<\/p>\n


\nThese signage pieces were hauntingly swaying in the cool evening breeze.<\/p>\n


\nView from the roof deck.<\/p>\n

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\nView from Mount Lycabettus<\/p>\n

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\nSo much character.<\/p>\n


\nLove the welded coin.<\/p>\n


\nBack to the Temenos of Dionysos Eleuthereus<\/p>\n


\nThe \u0397\u039f\u03a1\u039f\u03a3 \u039a\u03a1\u039d\u0395\u03a3 inscription was marked as a thing to see, but I still don’t know what it is.<\/p>\n


\nMore cool street art.<\/p>\n


\nThe Temple of Hephaistos. Not shown: the crowd of tourists doing the exact same thing that I was.<\/p>\n


\nTokens used to vote on someone to exile, if I remember correctly.<\/p>\n

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\nThis was a little shop here<\/a> that had the best food of our trip. Too bad we found it on the last day we were there.<\/p>\n

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