Next up, on our Honeymoon tour: Athens, Greece!
Missed Stop 1? Venice
Fun facts about Athens:
- Athens is the largest city & capital of Greece
- It’s one of the world’s oldest cities
- Population: approximately 3,932,756
- First modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896
- Birthplace of many prominent writers, philosophers, politicians and scientists of the ancient world, including Sophocles, Socrates and Pericles.
And it’s smokin’ hot! 
It reached a high of 38 degrees Celsius the day we were there. Eric and I were sweating buckets while climbing the Acropolis and Filopappos hill. We finally reached the top of the Acropolis and discovered there was no water to be found, just a lot of thirsty tourists! If you ever find yourself climbing this, bring more than 1 bottle of water… ;)
There are about 150,000 stray dogs living on the streets in Athens. I wanted to take all of them home…
After our climbs, we headed to the Plaka shopping area where there are a lot of tourist/market type shops and high end shopping too.
You can view the rest of the pictures in the gallery below:
Feel Good Tea Giveaway!
The lovely makers of Feel Good Tea are giving away 10 (50g bags) of their best-selling loose leaf teas to one lucky winner.
The flavours included in this prize pack are…
- FeelGood Chai (Black)
- Black Celebration (Black)
- Toasted Walnut (Green)
- Strawberry Love (Green)
- Banana Bread (Herbal)
- Orange Blossom Oolong (Oolong)
- Chocolate Banana (Rooibos)
- Carnival (Rooibos)
- Heavenly Blend (White)
- White Bouquet (White)
To enter: Please leave a comment below and you’ll be entered for the random draw on Monday! Goodluck!
Gah- I so badly want to travel more. It kinda runs in my family we travelled a lot when i was little and my older sister is always travelling to some new place. Greece looks beautiful :)
I also looove tea, kind of addicted. Rooibos is the best! (Though I might say that about most kinds of tea hehe)
Hubs and I were just talking about going to Greece the other night! It’s number one on his Europe bucket list.
I love the picture of the tree framing the ruins. Very creative. Beautiful pictures.
Oooooohhhh! All the tea flavors look great, but the Orange Blossom Oolong sounds the best!
Kevin and I have always said that when we get married, our honeymoon will be more “tourish” than lounging on the beach for 2 weeks. Looks like you two had a lovely time :)
And rooibos OMG. I would love to win those teas!!
Greece looks AMAZING!! and so does the Strawberry love green tea :)
My goodness…you are a giveaway queen lately!
–Jaclyn T
I won a $25 gift certificate to the Steamy Kitchen Shop…but they don’t ship to Canada. I’m giving it away on my blog:
http://positiveponderings.blogspot.com/2011/08/giveaway-benefit-from-my-loss.html
Great giveaway! I´d love to win!
Ahhh, I want to go to Europe for my honeymoon. :D Loose leaf tea!! Be still my heart – I’d love to win them!
Your pictures are so gorgeous! What a beautiful place to take your honeymoon. Really diggin’ this giveaway as well! Drinking tea is part of my daily routine and all of these sound delish!
Greece is top on my list of places to visit! And the tea looks/sounds delicious.
My hubbie and I love tea and traveling! Greece is definitely on our list of places to go! Thanks for sharing the pics!
Yum!! Such a variety of great flavors =)
I used to work at a tea shop and I miss all the great teas…I would love to win!!!
Beautiful pictures!!!
Looking at all of your travels makes me want to see the world! I would love to go someplace tropical like the south pacific…think Fiji, Bora Bora, Tahiti… Oh heck, I’d even to do Hawaii if I had to! lol Can’t wait to see more!
Just went to Greece last year- one of my all time favorite trips!
Hehe, 32 degrees celcius is warm, I just got back from Turkey where it climbed to 52 degrees! 30 at night and we had no airconditioning lol It does however look beautiful
I’m dying to go to Greece one day!
Wow, Greece looks beautiful!! And all of those teas sound delicious! I would love to win!