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Greece

A trip from June 24, 2008 to July 05, 2008, travelling to Vouliagmeni, Newport, Athens, Thessaloniki …
11 day trip to Vouliagmeni, Athens, and Thessaloniki.
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First Day In Greece

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We arrived in the airport after a long, but smooth flight. I felt tired and full from a meal of nothing but disgusting carbs. Bad pasta, bad bread, bad crackers, etc. It took forever to get our passports stamped and then to get our bags. The pre arranged taxi from George's company was waiting for us. He took our bags from us and loaded them in the trunk. He then handed us ice cold water bottles. While he drove he answered all the questions we had for him about Greece. He spoke wonderful English. We checked in at the Westin in Vouliagmeni. We found out it would be two hours before our room would be ready. My dad changed in the lobby's bathroom and went to the beach/pool area. My mom and I waited with all the suitcases in the lobby. We fell asleep on our luggage. No one on the staff offered us anything nor did they try to speed the process up. We finally got to our room! It was small but beautiful. The bathroom was nice and the view was amazing!!!!!!!!!! We had a balcony that faced the beautiful waters. My mom and I took a 15 minute walk down their dangerous curving half ass sidewalks. We turned around after we got frustrated with dodging cars and not really getting anywhere. Besides it was over 90 degreImagees out and we were hot and tired. We came back to the room and snacked on food brought from home. We watched a Bette Midler movie because it was the only English channel. Then we slept for 13 hours!!!!

 
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Thank you for sharing your experience. I was thinking of taking my parents -- 81 and 82 on a trip to Greece and from reading your experience, I can tell it would be too much for them. I think I nice cruise in Mexico would be better.
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I am from greece and i just can tell you that your are not lucky.Hotel and people in greece are famous for their hospitallity and they are very familiar. Except that Athens is only for archeological interest ,greece has over 2000 wonderfull islands.
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I have been in Athens for two months and it is wonderfull city!!! Ξ€here are so many options what to do... When I moved there I found helpful information on http://www.facebook.com/cityofathens I became a fan and there are everyday updates about amazing events and so many other things like shopping, restaurants, sightseeing. I also joined them on twitter http://twitter.com/CityofAthens
And the New Acropolis museum is really magnificient!!!
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Wed 06/25/08 (day 2) - Vouliagmeni, Newport
Thu 06/26/08 (day 3) - Athens
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Fri 06/27/08 (day 4) - Vouliagmeni
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Sat 06/28/08 (day 5) - Athens
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Sun 06/29/08 (day 6) - Athens
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Mon 06/30/08 (day 7) - Thessaloniki, Thermi
Tue 07/01/08 (day 8) - Thessaloniki
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