Traveling through Europe!

      This weekend my friends and I traveled to beautiful Athens, Greece for a long weekend! We had to travel by train and by plane in order to arrive in Athens from Arezzo! I'm going to tell you some information about how I traveled from Italy to Greece.

     The first step was finding plane tickets for us to fly to Greece. We searched for flights through this website: Googleflights.com. We had to find a time that worked for us after our classes! We found a flight that left Rome at 9:50pm on Thursday June 2nd and we arrived in Athens at 12:50am, because Athens is an hour ahead of Italy.

This was our gate area information for our flight! 

     The next thing we had to do was find a hotel for us to stay at in Athens! We searched the internet for good places to stay in Athens. Finally we found a website that helped us book a hotel room in Athens! It was getaroom.com, it was very helpful and helped my friends and I book three hotel rooms for all of us! We had to email the hotel to tell them we would not be checking in until late in the night, to make sure they did not give away our hotel rooms!

     The next thing we had to do was buy train tickets from Arezzo to the Rome airport. We had to take a train from the Arezzo train station to the Rome termini station (one of the major stations in Rome), from there we had to get on a train to take us to the train station in the airport!

    Finally all we had to do was get on the trains to take us to Rome and then get onto the plane to fly to Athens! My friends and I had such an amazing time in Athens! On the first day we were there we went to a beautiful beach about an hour outside of Athens called Legrena Beach, we were able to swim in the Mediterranean Sea which had crystal clear water, and got to lay out in the sun and relax!

The beautiful Legrena Beach (photo taken by: Christina Cole) 

Then on Saturday we got to do all the sight seeing in Athens! We went to the Acropolis, which is where the Parthenon is located, we visited the Acropolis museum, the temple of Zeus and the panathenaic stadium, where the first modern olympics were held!

 

                                                        (everyone at the ruins of Zeus' Temple)

The wonderful Parthenon which is under preservation and restoration efforts 

   For lunch on Saturday we had a traditional chicken gyro! It was so amazing and everyone loved it! Here I've included a recipe on how to create your own traditional greek gyro! Greek gyro