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!
With fall weather right around the corner, I would LOVE to win some tea to keep me warm!!
I love looking at the pictures from your honeymoon. I have never been to Europe but have travelled everywhere else. I want to go someday and your pictures are getting me excited. Will “pin” some pics for inspiration.
Chocolate banana tea…I want some :)
Oh my goodness I am an absolute tea fanatic and those look incredible!!
Lovely pictures :)
Those teas look amazing! As do your honeymoon photos :)
Ooohhh!!! IO looove loose leaf teas that are full of fun colors and ingredients!!
love the pictures and love loose tea! xoxo
Toasted walnut green tea sounds pretty fabulous to me… love the Athens photos!
That tea looks amazing. So does Venice.
I would love some good tea!!
Wow, your pictures are amazing. Hopefully one day I will be there too!
Tea has my heart <3 Thanks for the giveaway!
I’ve always wanted to go to Greece, it looks beautiful!
Love the pictures, Athens looks beautiful! Although it’s sad about all the stray dogs :(
Those teas sound delicious! And I am so jealous of your honeymoon…it looks amazing!
That orange blossom oolong sounds great this fine morning! Your photos look amazing. I wish I could take home one of the strays, too. :( I need more travel in my life!
Greece is BEAUTIFUL! Santorini is definitely on my must see list.
Hi Angela! Thanks for sharing your pictures with us. Athens is on our list of places to see and now I think it jumped to the top of our list!
Thank you again for this chance to win the tea. I LOVE loose leaf tea, I think it has a much better taste than the tea bags.
Take Care!
I have always wanted to see the smaller ilands of greece, but all of it looks so beautiful!
Islands, more accurately :)
Such awesome pictures! Athens reminds me of our trip to Israel last fall. The ruins, the clear blue skies and stray dogs, except it was stray cats. :)
Love the honeymoon pics AND the tea pics too!!
Athens looks lovely! And chocolate banana? Sign me up!