My Name Tag!
Hey, that's me! I felt so important having this, you have no idea. :)
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The Big Three
Me, Maria from England, and my boss, Keith-Michael. They planned the whole...
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Changing of the Guards
Some weird guys in crazy Greek clothing marching down the street our...
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Parliament
The Parliament right across from our hotel. The marching guys will be to the...
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Changing of the Guards
There they are...
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Changing of the Guards
Not sure what they're changing... (P.S. check out that guy to the...
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Changing of the Guards
Nothing exciting...I took these picture more for Maria, she's...
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Changing of the Guards
and so on...
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Presiden't Motorcade
Yeah, so the Greek President drove by our hotel the first day there....
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Archaelogical Museum
I didn't realize till I was almost done that you could take pictures in...
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Archaelogical Museum
Again, don't ask what this is...
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same
I never took Greek History\Mythology, so I dunno what this stuff is
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My room!
Not the biggest thing in the world, but amazingly comfortable bed, high...
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My bathroom
Marble much? There was a marble bathtub too. The shower was a little tricky...
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The Lobby
Elevators are behind me, front entrance is to the right over there. High...
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The Lobby
Entrance is behind me. In that back room is the cafe\bar...
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Our Conference!
That's Maria. She's busy setting up and I'm sitting around taking...
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Yeah Solgar
Same room. I left the pictures of the actual conference out...it's...
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Oh wait...
OK, so there's one. that's my boss Keith-Michael doing the...
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I'm so important!
So he dragged me up there after he told me I wouldn't have to present...
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Lunch
I can go around the table if you like, clockwise: Back to me is Shantha from...
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Lunch
That's Avital on the left, Shantha, George, Maria, and Dr. Pedro from...
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Guest Speaker
We had a guest speaker from one of our suppliers, he was a cool guy, but...
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Ahh, new people!
That's Kim and Victoria from England, Waltraud from Germany, te back of...
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Important People
Notice how I'm not there. That's Keith-Michael, Paul from...
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More people during the conference
Dr. Pedro, Waltraud, Kim, Erik from Holland, Timo from...
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Other half
Kirshna, Vicky, Irene, Chiara, Avital, Maria, Paul. Love the bottled...
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Last bunch
Ionnis from Greece, George, Keith-Michael, and Kirshna. Very intently...
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more
People hangin out
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Pepper Grinder!
ok...so this is the "fresh pepper" grinder. It's seriously like 3...
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more lunch
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That's me!
I think this was the next day at lunch, someone took a picture of me...
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more lunch
that's me about to eat some salad. exciting, I know. No one wanted to sit...
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more lunch...
Bored yet? Whatever's on our plates, it's some cream cheese thing...
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Ahh...the fun stuff
A bunch of us went out to a Greek Taverna (don't ask which one,...
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Still haven't ordered...
Everyone seems pretty happy though, ey?
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Greek Dancing
This was a Monday night....so I guess they have traditional Greek...
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I suck
So someone convinced me to go up there. And someone decided a good...
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More dancing
Yey Solgar!
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Pre-Walk
Next day after all the excitement, I'm going on 7 hours of sleep...
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The Plaka
About a 3 minute walk from the hotel is where ALL the shopping and...
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The Plaka
Maybe this is normal in Athens, but someone was spray painting this...
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More Plaka
We sat down here to get some soda\beer\coffee.
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Some Cafe
Right where the Plaka shopping area meets the flea market area, by some metro...
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The Acropolis
So I was told you can't leave Athens without seeing the Acropolis....
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Dunno
Not sure, this was on the walk from the cafe up towards Acropolis. I...
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More Acropolis
I do have pictures from up there later on, I wasn't terribly impressed to...
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A little diversity
So we've got some ancient ruins, some semi-ancient mosoleum-looking...
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Almost there
On the walk up to the base of Acropolis, I thought this was a nice...
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Athens
Nice little semi-elevated view of Athens. I like the color of these buildings...
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Not sure
Some ancient Agora that we happened to miss. It lights up nicely at...
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Bent Tree
So that's me and Krishna. I didn't have time to change...big mistake....
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Yeah Scaffolding!
So we found these rocks overlooking Athens up by the base of Acropolis....
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Lycabettus Hill
Nice. From those rocks, that's what that Hill looks like towering...
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Athens
Or at least part of it. Not sure what that big Armory looking thing...
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Side Trip
We wanted to catch the sunset from the rocks, thought it would be nice, so we...
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Back to the Rocks
This is in the opposite direction of the Hill, towards the water (we...
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Some other monument
This was up on another hill further than Acropolis. People did walk up there,...
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On top of Athens
damn blinking....otherwise it's a perfect shot
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Hotel?
So the purpose of this shot was to try and get our hotel in a shot....
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Athens
There's that armory looking thing again. That's a long bulding, damn....
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Sunset?
Unfortunately for us, there was NOTHING scenic over in the direction of where...
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Acropolis
Half ot it anyway. And of course, some scaffolding.
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oooh, flowers
So a similar shot to before, but got some flowers in this one. Not sure what...
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more flowers
Just trying to change the framing of some shots. I'm such an artiste.
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Sun is setting
So you can see the line of the shadow, I thought that was cool...
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Oooh, colors
Perty
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More Athens
I couldn't tell how the pictures came out, so I took a bunch. Sue me
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Bye Bye sun
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The Moon
Opposite the sun, the moon arises. Finally got some color in the sky.
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Parthenon
It wasn't as impressive as I thought, but it was still pretty cool. I got...
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That damn Armory
Just a little different angle from before. The rocks I was on are down below,...
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Some theater
Yet again, they were doing a lot of construction on it, but it was...
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Some huge theater plus
The pillars are the remains of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, and the...
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My Hotel!
Ok, this time you can see the hotel. To the bottom left there's a...
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Lycabettus Hill
So it's somewhat sunny now, of course that night when I go to try...
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My Rock
So that's the rock we were on. Guess those people don't wanna...
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Another Theater
"Theater of Dionyssos". Whatever. Up on top obviously is the...
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Temple of the Olympian Zeus
What's left of it. Luckily my 12 Euro from the Acropolis covered this too.
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Acropolis Again
It's everywhere. But this is a different angle, looks kinda cooler...
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Zeus
Didn't feel like typing the whole title.
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Acropolis
This is a nice shot. That archway thing in the front is nothing special,...
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Zeus
Me trying to be fancy. Came out nicely. My other fancy ones I left off...
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More Acropolis
This is semi fancy too. Used the pillars from Zeus' old temple to...
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Ok, I lied
This one I guess is fancy too. Whatever, I'm trying. I like it!
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That stadium
Not sure what this is for, wasn't very populated, and wasn't...
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Lycabettus Hill :-/
So that's as clear as it's gonna get from up there. I paid the...
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Athens
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More Athens
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Oooh, pretty
So I touched this one up a little bit to show what was actually behind the...
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Lycabettus Hill. : -/
So before dinner I paid for the taxi and cable car up to the top of the hill....
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mmm, rain
Not sure what that stadium looking thing is. Probably a stadium.
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That stadium
And, is that...color?? in the sky??
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Nice
the Parliament to eh left, my hotel is probably just to the right of it, and...
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the church
Oh yeah, so there's a church up on the top of the Hill. Didn't go...
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Love those antennae
Would be a really nice shot without those antennae in the way. Couldn't...
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damn them
So there's SLIGHT color in the sky, no sunset though.
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Another side
This is just slightly to the right of the Acropolis...never went over there.
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Stadium + Parliament
Least there's no antennae!
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Dunno
More Athens
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Getting darker
My last night in Athens. :o(
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Acropolis
Little dark, but it works.
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Little Better
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Got some sky in this one
Last shot in Athens. : o( I left after this, caught the cable car back down,...
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