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Guide to Athens, Greece for 2012
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| This section will get you started. It includes practical information like arriving at Venizelos Airport and getting into the city, to fnding hotels, travel agents, using the metro and finding a good restaurant. It also includes the major reasons you are in Athens, which include the Acropolis and te most important archaeological sites. (The next section will tell you about the various neighborhoods if you want to know where to stay and what's around.) | ||
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Getting to Athens: |
When To Go: |
Arrival in Athens: |
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Hotels in
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Museums of
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The Acropolis |
Staying in Contact: |
Breakfast in Athens: |
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Crime and Scams | ||
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George the Famous Taxi Driver: |
Late Night in Athens: |
Schedules
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Buses: |
Matt's
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This section will tell you where to stay, where not to stay and why, and how to make your way through the various neighborhoods and districts of downtown Athens. It also includes important archaeological sites and parks, shopping areas and more. |
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Athens Plaka Guide: |
Syntagma Square: |
Makrianni and Koukaki |
Athinas Street |
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The Acropolis |
Monastiraki Flea Market: |
Kolonaki and Lykavitos: |
Thission |
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Omonia and Beyond |
Exarchia |
The Athens
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The Gazi |
Kypseli |
The 1st Cemetery |
National Gardens: |
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Psiri |
The Great Outdoors: |
Kerameikos
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Athens Maps |
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Coastal Athens: Faliron, Glyfada, Voula, Vouliagmeni, Varkiza You don't have to stay downtown if you don't want to. From the Athenian Riviera you can stay at the beach and commute to the Acropolis by bus, taxi or coastal tram | |||
| Kifissia: The Cool Northern Suburbs: There is a reason the wealthy people of Athens have their summer houses in Kifissia. A milder climate and still within driving distance of downtown. Nice hotels and the metro goes all the way through Athens to Pireaus | |||
| This section includes recommended hotels and travel agents, taxi drivers and other businesses in Athens. The hotel section tells which areas to stay at and which to avoid. | ||
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Travel Agents in
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Hotels in
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Gold and Jewelery: |
Melissinos: |
George the Famous Taxi Driver |
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Billy's Bus Tours |
Pandelis Melissinos: |
Walking Tours in Athens |
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Assistance for
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Limousine Service |
Art and Artists |
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Villas in Greece |
Bringing A Group? |
Athens Segway Tours |
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| Most people come to Athens because they are going to the Greek Islands and this section will tell you about the islands near Athens and how to get to them and those further away. It also has sections on mainland day-trips and overnight trips, and various services who can get you out of Athens. | ||
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Rafina & Other Day-Trips: |
Aegina, Poros and Hydra: |
How to Go to Greek
Island
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The
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Fantasy Travel of Greece |
Beaches of Athens |
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Ferry Boats in Pireaus: |
Lake Vouliagmeni |
The Curse of
Eleusis
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George's Taxi Excursions: |
Travel Agents: |
Car Rentals: |
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Coastal Athens: Faliron, Glyfada, Voula, Vouliagmeni, Varkiza: From the Athenian Riviera you can stay at the beach and commute to the Acropolis by bus, taxi or coastal tram and you can get to Pireaus to get the ferry just as easily |
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The New Attika Zoological Park: The 2nd largest bird collection in the world and lots of new and exotic animals that you might not expect to see in Greece |
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| For those going to the Greek Islands I recommend you visit my Greek Island Guide which gives a brief introduction to each island and then links to pages and pages of information and photos for the islands. | ||
| This section has a lot of important stuff, some articles written in a fun and whimsical fashion and other articles quite dry and boring but nonetheless useful. I have also included some of the articles that are featured in the sections above but are just as suited to this section. In fact the stuff I want you to read because I think it is important to you (or to me) I may have listed two or three times in this index. | ||
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Strollering Through Athens: |
Maps of Athens |
Bureacracy in Athens: |
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NEW! Weekend in Athens |
Books: |
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Practical
Athens Information |
Gifts: |
The Language: |
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Greek Food: |
Rain in Athens?: |
Athens Nightlife: |
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Patsa: |
What Music to Buy
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Demonstrations and Riots |
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Amvrazi and Vrettos: |
Newspapers: |
The Olympics |
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The Athens Marathon |
Souvlaki: | |
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Socrates Drank The Conium: |
Something
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Churches in Athens |
Information for Wheelchair Users: |
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If you have an idea of what you want to do in Greece try my Create-an-itinerary Form Its fun. Try it! |
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Questions? e-mail me at matt@greecetravel.com |
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| These are photos I have taken over the years and several articles that I could not decide where else to put them. Many of these pages are linked to from other pages above but some are not. There are also links to photo albums on some of my other websites. In fact you can see most of my best photos by going to www.greecetravel.com/photos | ||
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Athens Photos:The Sixties |
Graffiti of Athens |
New!Inside the Parthenon 2009 |
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Athens Photo Album |
Matt Barrett for Mayor? |
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Athens: The Way It Used To Be
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Byzart
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Christmas in Greece: |
Sunday in Abysinia
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In Search of Old
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New! Kypseli Architecture |
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The Athens Survival Guide is Copyright 1998 and updated continuously by Matt Barrett, most recently probably today!
This is the index page for all my Athens Survival Guide. There are thousands
of pages of information and it is easy to get
lost, sort of like Athens itself which is part of the adventure of traveling. My Athens Guide will give you the tools to survive and
thrive in Athens, Greece and enable you to have as much fun as I do and feel as comfortable as if you have been here before. You can read about hotels, restaurants, archaeological sites, nightlife, beaches and daytrips to nearby islands and beaches and towns on the mainland. My Athens Guide may not be as fancy as some of the other travel sites but I think you will find it to be the most fun to use and probably find it to be at least as helpful as the popular guide books, except
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