These statues at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece show that not all the good pieces of art ended up in the British Museum.

The Plaka in Athens, Greece is the big shopping area in the shadow of the Acropolis. One thing I loved about the Plaka was that it was not just shops and tourists [...]

Visit the National Museum of Archeology in Athens, Greece with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows the sculpture and other exhibits highlighting Minoan, Mycenaean, Archaic Greece, Classical Greece, Helinistic and Roman styles [...]

Visit Athens with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows the ruins of the ancient Agora which was the marketplace which is now surrounded by the picturesque neighborhoods of Plaka and Monastiraki. Monastiraki [...]

London to Athens – May 23 We flew out of Stanstead airport north of London on Aegean Airlines. To make a 10:20 AM flight we set an alarm for 5:30 AM. We [...]

There is no truth to the rumor that the way my wife and I figured out the itinerary for our next vacation was that we consulted TripAdvisor‘s recent survey to figure out [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Alf Meier about his adopted home country of Greece. Alf gives us two different itineraries for Greece. The tourist circuit: Athens, Thessaloniki, Sparta, Andros, Delphi, Meteora. He [...]