City of Athens

Leaving the Athens airport.

We landed at Athens to begin the pilgrimage. The capital of Greece is a city of five million people.  Athens has an ancient, storied history of which we didn't even scratch the surface. In the past decade, Greece has had some economic problems involving debt.

And while the city seemed to me to be scruffier than other European capitals, it also had a charm and vibrancy about it.

We didn't spend much time in Athens and most of the photos I took were out the window of our bus.

Lots of graffiti that often looked like street art. Apparently, graffiti is popular in Greece.

I liked the Greek people very much. They seemed laid back and accepting of tourists, who of course are good economically for the country.

Very glad not to be driving in the rush hour traffic, although I didn't notice too much honking of car horns. From Athens, we went to Corinth, following in the footsteps of St. Paul.