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Nalo
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| Posted: Tue, 11th Feb 2020 16:35 Post subject: |
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I was in Rhodos, fantastic place.
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Frant
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| Posted: Tue, 11th Feb 2020 16:37 Post subject: |
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I'd go to Greek Cyprus if I'd go that way.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
"The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead station" - Neuromancer
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| Posted: Tue, 11th Feb 2020 16:37 Post subject: |
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| Nalo wrote: | | Don't go. You'll regret it |
Explain.
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| Posted: Tue, 11th Feb 2020 16:55 Post subject: |
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- How's public transportation in Athens? The metro seems to go to a lot of places.
Metro is very useful, you buy a ticket and you can go wherever you want for 90 minutes. Avoid shitty ass buses and keep your things safe from pickpockets.
- Is it smart to book the trips to things like musea and historic places in advance? Maybe there are skip the line cards available?
I don't think you will encounter many problems with tourist crowds in April, it's not worth it to prepurchase museum tickets ... I think. Just go hours before closing time, sometimes they close earlier than they should.
- Any restaurants, fish places in particular, you guys can really recommend?
*Some* restaurants in Plaka are tourist-traps, they only offer "special" dishes and will skin you alive. Will you rent a car?
- Any places we should avoid?
Some places in the center of Athens are pakistani-albanian ghettos, diversity is NOT our strength so stay away.
- Any day trips (max 1h bus ride) you can recommend? Delphi seems to be too far
There are some city sightseeing bus tours. Google it, it's a hop on, hop off thing. They go around some landmarks. A trip to Delphi is a whole day excursion, meehhhh. Go to the flea market in Monastiraki to buy shitty trinkets and also go to the ancient agora in Thissio for sightseeing and then sit there for a coffee, too. In the cafeterias in Thissio, I mean, there are several lined up together in one street.
- Is Paxsali the average Greek?
Yes, it is a very sad state of affairs.
But why are you coming to Athens in April? How much do you like museums?  Most people come for summer vacations, they fly to Athens and then hop to an island.
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LeoNatan
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Location: Ramat Gan, Israel 🇮🇱
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| Posted: Tue, 11th Feb 2020 17:09 Post subject: |
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Enjoy your trip! 
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Frant
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| Posted: Tue, 11th Feb 2020 17:10 Post subject: |
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Personally I have an issue when temps go beyond 24-25 degrees and July-August in Greece (Athens in this case) are generally around 30 degrees with higher peaks. Definitely not my scene. It's enough that we've got 25-30 during summers here in the south west of Sweden (which non-Swedish people sometimes refuse to believe). It's gotten worse with really hot summers since the 2000's.
Going off season also means you're not crowded by humongous amounts of other annoying tourists.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
"The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead station" - Neuromancer
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| Posted: Sat, 15th Feb 2020 21:28 Post subject: |
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Any Greeks here been to Aegina? It's 40 minutes with ferry from Athens and looks beautiful. The major pro, tourists don't seem to care about this island! The really great islands are on the other side of Greece sadly, too far from Athens and flying is crazy expensive.
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Waargh
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| Posted: Sat, 15th Feb 2020 23:14 Post subject: |
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It's nice and cheap. Well, I have never visited an island in March, though.
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| Posted: Sun, 16th Feb 2020 23:52 Post subject: |
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its been ~15 years since i was in athens last time,cheap and fun for a few days. and beware of the greek asshole, they try to rip off tourists all the time. though i liked staying at egina more, nice little island
booked thessaloniki for this may a few weeks ago, gonna be great too
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Schools are closing at the end of april so we're doing a Istanbul/Athens trip. Athens for us is mainly for historic sites and musea.
