Athens Ancient City and Piraeus Modern Beaches. Jean's guide for Doris Visits.

[Music] we come down to the beach today we've done it before by train but today we got the A1 bus right from the port and it costs less than5 for two of us for a return trip and now we're here we can hire a variety of vehicles to take us around Athens can be a beach holiday as well as the Acropolis and the Roman ruins we'll show you them all and how to get there if you turn left at the marina Park where we got off and just stroll along the beaches get better and better the further you go it's a very pleasant walk as a cruiser you'll get to Athens over and over again and each time you do you'll find something new if you come to pareas and you stop at terminals 1 and two they'll be down there at the bottom of the hill if you want to go to the beach you just walk up the hill come to the bus stop here and you get the A1 bus and it'll take you on a circuit around all the beach stops if you come to Terminal 3 then the bus will stop right outside it couldn't be simpler and when you get on the bus you just tap your Visa card on the ticket machine as you come out of the port you see a line of expensive yellow taxes the public x80 bus is straight on this way the far Cruise ports have public buses but there's our ship and this is the car park and there are a number of different options the x80 bus is here and this this is where you get the Hop On Hop off bus and an electric Road Trin or my favorite way is to cross the road and get a bus to the Metro just as you can get a Metro all the way along the beach Athens is easy as we walked away from the main taxi rank we got offered a taxi for 10 to the Acropolis which is really cheap but keep walking down the road and so here we are at parir station and from here you can go straight to a you press the country please select function by travel travel project press the area you press the number of trips the cheapest way to the Athens would be the metro in sintagma station get the little red Athens happy train for around5 walk around and end up at pla Square where you could take the metro home from monaki station whole day €1 so let's start by seeing what is at pla Square you can eat drink or people watch which is best done from a rooftop Advantage at Monas raki you will find the Athens flea [Music] market just by the station there are some Gardens with some ruins this is the Temple of heos it will cost you €1 to enter the Persians completely destroyed the Agora in 480 BC and rebuilding took place over the next 500 years and the ruins are what is left of that rebuilding so this is wonderfully near montari station which is just behind the museum you can see in front of us the flea market is to the left plua square is behind the museum views of of the Acropolis are on the hill this was Simon's house but it needs a bit of work now there's a fantastic view of the Acropolis and you can sit on a shady bench and just take it all [Music] in the church was built in the 11th century and restored repeatedly through the centuries it was restored to its original form in 195 three this statue is probably of Aphrodite and you can find all these statues in the sto of aalos which was rebuilt in the 1950s by the American Institute of classical studies so these are statues of the personification of The Iliad and the Odyssey we're having an explore the steps are quite steep up to the top [Music] the museum is full of ancient artifacts and there are models of how it would have [Music] been there is no shortage of statues such a shame all these heads with no body to dance with the museum has been known to close in the afternoon adrien's Library also closes at 3:00 so morning visit the idea of a morning visit and a siesta also fits in with the great idea of doing Athens in the morning and the beach in the afternoon we're heading back to sintagma square the square is opposite Parliament is behind you and everything is signposted outside the parliament buildings we're so lucky to see the changing of the god and they must be so hot they've got thick white tights on in sagma square you can also get the Athens happy train they start at Parliament Constitution Square in tagma square then go to evzones there's National Garden Baki museum caic museum bantine museum War Museum panthic Stadium zapon Hall Temple of Zeus and the Hadrian Arch we'll take you there in a moment on a horse and carriage ride Lantern of diogenes in pla and then back to plaa we're going to walk there and get a horse and carriage [Music] back there's a lot of [Music] steps slippery so many people have walked these steps if you've not booked a ticket online or in advance this is the queue opposite the Acropolis are some high rocks where you can climb up to a vantage point Acropolis means high city and you can see why so this is the top of aropa Hill it's very slippy to climb and there's no easy access if you want to take a picture of the Acropolis the best place to take it is from the top of this hill because when you're up there it'll be very hard to get the whole thing in the frame so we're on our way to the Temple of seus and we've decided go in the horse and [Music] carriage F arrived the temple [Music] of one of the most important museums in the world the Acropolis Museum big cues over there it has a 30 cm bronze statue of Athena which dates back to 475 BC might not be quite the same but you can buy one on Amazon this temp at the bottom of pla City at the end of our horse and cart tour is paden's Arch the very famous landmark in [Music] Athens we're at the stadium of the first modern Olympic Games the marble in there is beautiful originally the runners all men used to run naked and only men were allowed in and sometimes their mothers used to try and sneak in but if they were Court they were arrested and they made everyone come in topless so that they could tell the difference between the men and the women to keep the women out ancient Greek Olympian man performing [Music] naked from this s you can get a train back to par we bought a 24-hour ticket for €450 for the Athens area we come one stop and now we're going to try and find the tram to take us along the sea route the train station meets the tram station just beside the football stadium for olympos this is not our one we want one that says vaula on the front so there's the port parus there is the football stadium you go one stop to the football stadium and then get on the tram and you go all along the coastline and it's like having your own Hop On Hop off bus you can hop off at any Beach that takes your fancy we hopped off the tra we found a lovely Beach it's called Eden Beach and it's got a cafe and internet and now we're going to pop back on the tram and do a bit more exploring [Music] [Music] so we got off at kalamaki and we're in this beautiful Bay and we're going to have a coffee in the stolid Cafe on the way home [Music] we've arrived at tro it's about 5 minutes away from the museum in the coach the important positioning of the land of Troy meant that it was occupied for over 3,000 years so there was Troy 1 Troy 2 right up to Troy n and they're all standing on top of each other no one knows what they were actually old the archaeologists have labeled them that ket's killing heat here in you know real hot summer I'm sure the lighthouse hasn't changed one bit and so we're going to walk you through town Laruna is a great place to make new friends Shakespeare there's Bernard Shaw there's molier the statue is Maria P when the British invaded in the 1500s they got this far and they killed her husband so she gathered a group of soldiers and she pushed the British [Music] back if you turn left from the port you'll find this little Park it's nice to stroll through there's lots of statues and waterfalls if you turn right you'll walk all the way to the lighthouse you can turn left or right we have films from Iceland to Rio from South Africa into the medit terranean from the fjords to the btic everywhere we visit we film so 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