EuroCheapo's Athens Articles

Apr 12 Photo by Tara Lencl Graffiti art hasn’t been an exclusively Stateside phenomenon for quite some time. It’s been developing and spreading throughout the world over the past 20 years, ever since people overseas first saw films like Beat Street. There are many talented graffiti artists in the Balkan region. One example of local graffiti can » Read more

Apr 10

Mar 28 Photograph by Kaymaria Daskarolis How to get into Athens from Athens International Airport (ATH)? Here are a few options. 1. Bus The X95 line will take you straight to the heart of the city, Syntagma Square. The journey takes between 60 and 90 minutes. It runs 24 hours per day, departing every 20 minutes. One-way » Read more

Mar 23

Mar 22 Beginning today, March 22, 2007, the Institut Français d’Athenes is hosting its eighth annual French Film Festival. From today through April 1, the festival set up shop Athens, at the Attikon Cinema (Stadiou 19, metro station: Panepistimiou, tel: +30-210-322-8821, tickets €8, €6 for children and students (Monday through Thursday). Tickets can be purchased from Chad » Read more

Mar 20 Photograph by Kaymaria Daskarolis Last week (March 14 – March 18) Athens hosted the fifth annual Hellenic Fashion Week, held in the famous and beautiful Zappeion Hall in the midst of the National Gardens. Over the course of the four days, the fashions of 42 different designers were presented in a sophisticated yet playful manner » Read more

Mar 19 Photograph by Kaymaria Daskarolis Greek ferry company Hellenic Seaways offers one-way, round-trip, and multi-leg ferry trips between the main ports of mainland Greece (Piraeus, Rafina, Agios Constantinos, and Volos) and 32 Greek islands. The company’s Web site is very easy to use, and permits online ticket purchase and multiple ticket pick-up options. While you can » Read more

Mar 16 Tired of going to Starbucks for an iced mocha with soy milk, and unable to find soy milk at any other cafes in Athens, we thought: why not bring along our own thermos of it to our favorite café and avoid the American chain? But where can you get the stuff in Athens? In addition » Read more

Mar 12 We got a good injection of artistic inspiration at the Benaki Museum’s Pireos Street Annexe in Athens (Pireos Street 138 at Andronikou Street, tel: +30-210-345-3111). There, one of the current exhibitions is a collection of selected sculptures and paintings by contemporary Greek artist Kostas Paniaras. The exhibition spans Paniaras’s first 50 years of art work. » Read more