When we left Greece in 2011, as we sailed out of Patras on the ferry we said goodbye to Greece as we thought there was very little chance that we would have the opportunity to return. How wrong we were! We arrived in Athens after an 11 hour flight from Singapore to Istanbul and then another 1 1/2 hours to Athens. After collecting our baggage we caught the train from the airport into the city. Our stop - Syntagma - turned out to be about 100m from our hotel. A...

Staying in the centre of Athens was against all we had previously planned for because Greg was adamant that he did not want to ride the hellish Athens traffic, especially since we would be arriving during late afternoon peak hour. But (yes but), Kerrie prevailed and persuaded Greg that we could negotiate our way safely and without drama through peak hour traffic and into our digs for the next two nights because we had, after all, ridden through both Rome & Pa...