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!
bring on the fall temps – love sipping tea in the evenings :)
I LOVE these pictures Angela. Brings me back to 2003 when we lived in Greece for 3 months. Would love to take the same cruise as you guys some day in the future.
I loved Athens! We also did a med cruise for our honeymoon. I also love tea! :)
Chocolate banana sounds very yummy
I heart tea! I hope I win this one :)
This is great! Love the pictures!
Yummy! I wonder if it would be against the rules to combine some of the flavours… think about it, white bouquet+strawberry love!!
I wonder how the banana bread and chocolate banana teas would taste? I’ve never had a food flavored tea before…
Angela I love your blog, and I love tea as well!!!!!!!! short and sweet! :)
I’m pregnant and need to tremendously cut down on caffeine. These tea varieties sound amazing and great coffee alternatives…for now :)
Your web site inspires me every day! I love the links you share and the recipes are the best! Thank you. Anna Bee
Great Photos! I’d love to go to Athens some day. The teas look great too! The chocolate banana and banana bread flavors sound delicious!
I’ve went to Greece many years ago. The hotel had a rooftop view of the acropolis. I’ve also been to Naxos and Santorini, all really wonderful places.
As for tea, that is wonderful too. There are no good local tea places here in Phoenix.
Ange -just like you, I saw lots of stray dogs in Pompeii and it literally broke my heart!! I cannot get them out of my head. Whereas I’d lived for 3 years in Germany and I never once saw a single stray.
Love your travel pics! :)
Beautiful pictures!!
I’m trying to cut coffee out of my diet- how great would these teas be!!
I AM A TEA FANATIC!! that is my comment. pick me, oh random # generator
I love your blog. Very inspiring and down to earth.
I like to call myself a tea-aholic, I drink that much tea. These teas look amazing.
I’d love to win these teas! Thanks for the giveaway.
Rooibos teas are the best!! another great giveaway:)
oooohhhh I wannna try ’em!!!