Well I am finally getting around to finishing the sorting of our pictures from Athens. Being there for 2 months you tend to collect a lot of photos and I am realizing most of them people really won't care to see :)
Anyway - here are the random photos from Athens - they were accumulated by both Josh and myself on our walkabouts in the city.
Enjoy!
Anyway - here are the random photos from Athens - they were accumulated by both Josh and myself on our walkabouts in the city.
Enjoy!
Ha - so as Josh and I were watching the sunset from Lycabettus Hill the night before we left Athens, we noticed the soldiers come out to take the flag down. So I thought - oh this picture would be so cool so I specifically went to the spot I am in for the picture, then the soldier decided to come and stand right in front of me. At first I was pissed, I mean - really - I am sure he saw me there with a camera, not like I have a small point and shoot or anything, then I realized - HOLY CRAP - what a great shot.
I must say I am extremely grateful that he came and stood right in front of me - kind of made the photo.
Those blue doors are the Irish pub that we found... At least this one had Guinness, although they didn't know what a Poor man’s Black Velvet was...
Ha - I was on a work call when I took this one - the joys of working abroad.
Josh was waiting at the bar.
We were bored waiting for the train (which is different than the metro we found out a month in a half into our time in Athens)
Best patio idea ever... there was this house that we used to run by in Athens and they had this front patio that used grape vines for shade. LOVE IT!
World cup fever - we snapped this the first week of world cup. All the kids were out paying soccer.
Backgammon was EVERYWHERE! It was great - every park you would go into you would see a group of older gentleman sitting around a table playing backgammon. So of course I had to sneak a picture.
Once our parents got to Athens we found this great little Tabepna (Taverna in Greek :) I loved this booth in this restaurant. Sorry - can't remember the name of the place (I should remember to take pictures of the names of places I go eat. Note to self for next trip) OH - PS - first time using my new lens (woo hoo - you will see more in later posts that do it more justice)
Like this one... This is of the Monastiraki station square - new lens is 16-32mm f2.8. Unfortunately it only worked on the f2.8 when I got it, but I was able to hobble through the rest of the trip and have since gotten it repaired from Canon (which was very surprisingly easy and quick)
This was a Tabepna we found in the Plaka (main shopping area around the Acropolis) which was so charming - we had live entertainment and the food was really good... Again - don't remember the name sorry.
