Friday 12 November 2010

Why I love Athens, Greece

Inspired by Matthew Rush's recent post, I decided to show you all why I love living in Athens, Greece. For those of you who know me, I'm not short of complaints about this city. But today is going to be about its beauty and why I chose to live here. And an easy-breezy post this will be too. No reading. Just looking. At the spectacular city I live in ... Enjoy!










 And ... jump on a ferry, and look where you might end up!


Have a great weekend!

40 comments:

  1. Such a beautiful place... I hope to visit someday.

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  2. Wow! Absolutely stunning. Thank you for the visual vacation!

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  3. I wanna see it all again... if only I weren't a student and had the money!

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  4. So jealous! You know how much I want to go there. What motivation. The pictures are great!

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  5. I've always wanted to visit Greece. So beautiful.

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  6. Athenes is one of the places I've always wanted to go. To stand where Plato and Aristotle and Sophocles stood, to see where Pericles defeated the Persians, to visit the home of Democracy...sigh...

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  7. Wow... Amazing. No wonder you love it there!!!

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  8. Ah beautiful.

    Thanks for the shout out too! I'm flattered to think I inspired you.

    And I so want to go to that spot you emailed me.

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  9. Looks a wonderful place to live Jessica, I feel the same about Spain wish I never left.

    Have a lovely week-end.

    Yvonne.

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  10. Lovely! I love old architecture and the ruins! Someday...

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  11. What a gorgeous place! Hope I'll have the opportunity one day to come visit and take it all in first-hand!

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  12. Gorgeous pictures! Thank you for the lovely photo essay. :)

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  13. that looks like an awesome market! color me jealous

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  14. lovely photos, can you guarantee a hunk like that if I hop on a ferry? because I am known for spontaneous trips and I will come :)

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  15. Athens is one of the top places I want to visit one day, especially for the Parthenon. Athena rocks! :D Plus, I majored in Classics, so it'll be nice to visit the city where I painstakenly had to translate their ancient Greek in my classes. *laughs*

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  16. gorgeous. I can't wait to visit... :D j/k. (who's that fella in the pool...? *snort*)

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  17. Wow! What a beautiful place!

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  18. Amazing! Simply breath-taking! I love where you live!!

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  19. Stunning. Lovely, thanks for sharing.

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  20. Amazing, Jess - so beautiful. Thanks for sharing all the wonderful photos!

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  21. Jessica.
    I. Am. Now. Jealous.
    Very jealous.
    <3 Greece <3
    :) Enjoy it! :)

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  22. I adore Athens, you lucky lucky thing! I visited when I was thirteen and it is on my list of cities to revisit properly.

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  23. Absolutely AMAZING. I want to go so bad. i can't wait until I'm extraordinarily wealthy and can spend a few months there... (I hope that guy will still be in that pool then... or is that YOUR guy?

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  24. Um...WOW! What an amazing and gorgeous place to live, Jessica. Just wow. :-)

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  25. Beautiful! Someday I will make it there.

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  26. Exquisite! I was thinking Turkey in 2011, but I may have to change my travel plans. So beautiful - Thank you for sharing.

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  27. I would so like to go there... Gorgeous photos!!

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  28. WOw, that is amazingly beautiful.

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  29. Thanks for sharing your photos! Athens looks so gorgeous.

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  30. Hi9 Jessica, for all the continued support you have given me and congrats on your book being published there is an award at my Christmas shopping blog.

    Yvonne

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  31. hi miss jessica! wow those pictures are soooo cool. im thinking no matter where you live its not gonna be perfect. you just gotta look around you and theres sooo much good stuff. when i get more older for sure im gonna do a visit at greece. say hi to holly for me. :)
    ...hugs from lenny

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  32. Greece is on my want to visit list for sure...Thanks for sharing the great pictures. :)

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  33. So much blue sky! I wouldn't know what to do with it, hehe.

    It looks gorgeous though. It's on my list of places I really want to visit :)

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  34. yeah ok i live in athens, and all of you find athens better than america ?, please answear can you compare athens with florida or beverly hills???????

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  35. Teo: I believe every place has its own unique beauty. There's no use comparing places, because I'm sure every place has something better than another place in someone's view. And it also depends on a person's taste. Just like some people like to live near the sea, and others in the mountains.

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  36. Your pics made me cry! I adore Athens!(Greece)Can't wait two and a half weeks to go there! I know we will eventually move there! Athens is an Amazing city in every way!

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