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!
I wish I could go to Greece. Did you like the ouzo?
Beautiful photos! I would love to win all of that yummy tea! Banana bread tea? Yes please :)
I would love to try some of that yummy looking tea!
Beautiful pictures and yummy looking tea. I figure if I keep entering the drawings I’m bound to win someday!
Love loose-leaf tea almost as much as I love your blog :)
The stray dogs just break my heart. I wish there was something I could do to help those little guys!!
Banana bread tea!?!…now that’s something I have got to try.
a trip to Greece or tea both look like a good cure for the bad weather today!
Ooh.. I like the pictures of the exotic tea flavors!
Yum! I am a total tea addict. Chocolate banana? Yes please!
We really wanted to do Greece on our honeymoon, but ended up in Hawaii (still great). We’ll get there some day. That tea looks great, especially since the school year started and I can never get warm in those classrooms!
I would love to win :)
Great pics – great way to spend a honeymoon.
Love tea!!! And Greece– my husband and I are planning on going to Santorini for our honeymoon!
Your Athens photos are gorgeous! Athens was the one place I wanted to visit when I studied abroad that I couldn’t make it to (ok, and all of Italy, but I just see it as an excuse to go back!) In the meantime, I’m just going to settle for cake batter :)
Blah southwestern ontario Sunday weather makes a perfect day for delicious tea!
I’ve always wanted to go to Greece. Enjoy!
Mmm I loe tea! When I was packing up for my first year of college, I made sure to have lots of tea :)
I’m jealous – I’ve always wanted to go to Athens! So beautiful! But perhaps I’ll win the teas and that will make it a little better ;)
I love the pictures! My parents are there right now and are loving it. Definitely on the list of places to go. The tea looks beautiful, too!