A category of articles about planning a trip to Athens, with itineraries, places to stay, transportation, and tips from a local.
Mobile data is the first thing worth sorting after landing, since maps, taxi apps, transport tickets, and translation all depend on it. The airport makes buying a SIM card look easy, but that convenience usually comes with a much higher price. I’ve used Cosmote, Vodafone, and Nova over the years and been irritated by all…
Taxis are everywhere in Athens. Yellow, easy to spot, constantly moving through the city, and the single most common source of bad transport stories. Locals don’t entirely trust them either, which tells its own story. That isn’t to say every driver is a problem, since most are completely fine. But inflated fares, pointless detours, careless…
Spring is one of my favourite times of year in Athens. Temperatures make it comfortable enough to walk for hours, markets fill with seasonal fruit, outdoor cinemas reopen, and the hills around the Acropolis turn green for a short while. And then there are events like the Athens Half Marathon, the Athens Jazz Festival, and…
Athens is a city of 3.5 million, but moving around it is easier than that number suggests. Once the historic centre is reached, most of it is walkable. For everything beyond, there’s a modern metro, buses, trams, taxis, and a few other options of varying usefulness. Some of those work very well. Others create more…
One reason I decided to dedicate this entire blog to Athens was to show that the city can be more than a transit stop before heading elsewhere in the country. Many travellers stop by on their way to the islands, or just add it to the start or the end of a bigger Greece itinerary….