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 love tea so much that I’m on a tea-buying ban – this would be perfect! :D
Mmmm, tea, nothing better on a cool fall day or a snowy winters day. Yes, I’m already thinking about that as it’s getting colder on the East coast too now :(
Banana bread flavored tea?!! I must try it!!
Just thinking about them warm up my tummy!
I am definitely a crazy tea lady :/ tea keeps me going during late-night study sessions at college.it helps keep me from eating unhealthy junk food my body craves when I’m stressed :)
Great pics! And enter me in the draw, please :).
I wish I could try the toasted walnut green tea! Divine.
I love tea especially after a nice long run!
Strawberry love and toasted walnut sound incredible!
Great pics! Amazing blog :-) I’m about to give birth anyway now, in super nervous and reading ur blog relaxes me- thank you !
Hope I’m not too late! I LOVE tea…
Greece is definitely on my bucket list! We’re getting married next May and I offered to elope and instead take a vacation to Greece, he picked the wedding. Oh well, there’s always next time! And by next time I mean in a few years, not the next wedding! lol
Second year of my masters starting in a week and I could DESPERATELY use some fabulous tea! Athens looks beautiful btw :-)
I always start wanting tea like crazy in the fall!
mmm tea!! yes please.
poor stray dogs, i wish i could take them home too.
Chocolate banana tea?? Sign me up!! :)
Always rooibos..always looking for new flavors.
They all sound delicious! It’d be hard to choose :)
The reason why I want to win tea:
“If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you. ~Gladstone, 1865”
:)
Oh my goodness I LOVE LOVE LOVE tea!! Nothing is better a cool, brisk morning than a mug of hot tea with a little flava (read: cinnamon and other spices). :) The vast variety of teas offered by Feel Good Tea sound amazing! Can’t wait!