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Flight to Athens
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Airplane food
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Late night dinner in Athens
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Roswitha at breakfast
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Hillary enjoys breakfast
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Shut up!
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Got coffee?
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The breakfast was actually nothing special
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The unopened Acropolis Museum
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Our future
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Does this say FSM in Greek?
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More graffiti
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Salad - Greek, of course
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Galotiri- yogurt with herbs
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Mastihato - chicken fillet in nest of kadaifi with sauce from Chios mastic and bacon
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Grilled nests - beef leaver [sic] and foiled cheese in lamb skin
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Church of Theotokos Gorgoepikoos and Ayios Elytherios
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How to cool down on a hot day
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When old art is everywhere not all of it gets respected. Still, funny.
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More nice art
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Church of the Metamorphosis. We just walked past it, so we did not see what it changed into.
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Odeum of Herodes Atticus
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Looking down from the Acropolis, through the Odeon of Herodes Atticus
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Odeon of Herodes Atticus (panorama)
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When caper berries ripen
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Well matched
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Roswitha and Hillary
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Amphitheater
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Temple of Hephaestus and Athena Ergane
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Main Acropolis entrance (panorama)
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Acroplois guard...getting better cell phone reception
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Propyla
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Reaching the top
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Acropolis tourist
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Structural echoes
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Pandroseion
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The Karyatides
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A chip off the old column
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Ionic
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Only certain places were crowded
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The Parthenon
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The Karyatides
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Probably not so ancient
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Columns
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She spent her time yelling at anyone who tried to climb up
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Iconic Ionic columns
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The Erechtheion
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The Erechtheion - temple dedicated to Athena, Poseidon, Erechtheus, 421-406 BC
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Carved marble
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Ancient Lego
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Inspiration?
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Nice view
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Hillary and Lycabettus Hill (panorama)
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Lycabettus Hill
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Atop Lycabettus Hill
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Hillary & Scott
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Looking down onto the Temple of Zeus
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Temple of Zeus
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Oops
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Hippodrome
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Reconstruction
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Parthenon - the last time we were here, we could walk in
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Parthenon
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Parthenon columns
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Puzzle
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The Parthenon
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Touristiki
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Poser
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Many feet have walked over this marble, but probably not so many Crocs
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Roswitha & Hillary
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Nymphaea
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Temenos and theater of Dionysus Eleuthereus
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Temenos and theater of Dionysus Eleuthereus and the unopened Acropolis Museum
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Sorting
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Collect the whole set
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Go to London for the Original
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Shadows
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Shadows
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A little help
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My, that's a big lens
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Stuff just laying around
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Looks like bones
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Another hot dog
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Accurate sign
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Stopping for the view
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Hillary and the Acropolis
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North & East of the Acropolis (toward Lycabettus)
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Agora (panorama)
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Like fallen trees
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Stoa
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In the Stoa
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Work it
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Stoa
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In the Stoa
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Hillary
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Shadows in the Stoa
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Can you spot the difference?
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Head of a Triton
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Perfume bottle, 540 BC
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Head of Nike, 420-415 BC
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BTW, I was not supposed to be shooting these
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Apollo Lykeios (ivory), 3rd century AC
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Stoa
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Stoa
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Look! A tourist train!
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Stoa
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Acropolis from the Agora
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Disco hose
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Temple of Hephaestus and Athena Ergane (panorama)
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Temple of Hephaestus and Athena Ergane (panorama)
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Temple of Hephaestus and Athena Ergane
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Temple of Hephaestus and Athena Ergane
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Temple of Hephaestus and Athena Ergane
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Temple of Hephaestus and Athena Ergane
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Temple of Hephaestus and Athena Ergane
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Temple of Hephaestus and Athena Ergane
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Temple of Hephaestus and Athena Ergane
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Hadrian
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Agora and Acropolis
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Tea time
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Jet lag?
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Tourist train!
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Doing a photoshoot
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Graffiti
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Sunset
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Everyone's a critic
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Emperor's clothing store
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I may have stolen a soul
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Tzaziki, peppers, Horiatiki near Monastiraki
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The Acropolis looms over it all
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Acropolis by night
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Greek gecko
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