{"id":329,"date":"2015-09-05T09:59:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T14:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2015-09-05T09:59:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T14:59:46","slug":"canicus-in-athens-5-sept-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Canicus in Athens: 5 Sept 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Left via ShuttleBus for DFW around noon on Thursday. Arrived at Frankfurt around 8 AM on Friday. Forgot all about the hassle at the airport there. Arrivals are bused a long way from a parking lot to the terminal. Since I was arriving in the European Union from the U.S., I had to go through immigration, customs (nothing to declare so quick) and the airport security again. And it was about a mile walk to my Athens departure gate. One thing about being old, hearing impaired and carrying a cane (nice prop, but not really necessary) is that I get to ‘pre-board.’ Otherwise the flights were uneventful.<\/p>\n

Arrived in Athens on schedule around 5 PM on Friday. Grabbed a\u00a0\u03a4\u0391\u039e\u0399 to go to my first hotel. (Some cabs are TAXI; I’m not clear as to the difference — they are all yellow.) This driver didn’t know where the hotel was. It didn’t show up on his GPS directory. He got me to the district, handed me a map, and asked me to find it for him. Fortunately, I knew roughly where it was and was able to locate the street intersections. What made it a bit strange is that the hotel is located directly across the street from what is obviously a\u00a0\u03a4\u0391\u039e\u0399\/TAXI stand, where there are usually a bunch a cabs waiting for anyone who wants a ride.<\/p>\n

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Breakfast at Best Western<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The hotel is pretty much ‘American Best Western’ with European sized rooms. It is located about halfway between \u03a0\u03bb\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5\u03af\u03b1 \u03a3\u03c5\u03bd\u03c4\u03ac\u03b3\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 (Parliament Square) and the Flea Market. \u00a0I ate the free breakfast at the hotel. They seem to cater to a wide variety of folks.
\nA bit of Britain on the left — sausages, eggs and stewed tomatoes. I prefer my tomatoes raw, so I skipped those. A croissant<\/em>, orange juice and coffee would be a French\u00a0petit d\u00e9jeuner<\/em>\u00a0. On the right is Greek — watermelon, cantaloupe, raw tomatoes, zucchini, olives and feta cheese.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0After breakfast I walked toward the Flea Market — lots of tourist souvenirs — but no fleas.<\/span>\u00a0Rugs, clothes, and tourist junk. And then on to revisit Hadrian’s Agora. \u00a0I was thinking of going on a bit further to the Tower of the winds and the ancient Agora. But Athens is experiencing a heat wave; it is cooler in Dallas! And I’ve not recovered from jet lag. So I had a frappe and headed back to the hotel for a nap and to cool off.<\/p>\n

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From the breakfast room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Left via ShuttleBus for DFW around noon on Thursday. Arrived at Frankfurt around 8 AM on Friday. Forgot all about the hassle at the airport there. Arrivals are bused a long way from a parking lot to the terminal. Since I was arriving in the European Union from the U.S., I had to go through … Continue reading Canicus in Athens: 5 Sept 2015<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}