Beginning Vacation – En Route to Athens
June 20, 2010
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And so our vacation begins after a day of clients, finale with the “Rapid Fat Blast Bootcamp”, teaching yoga at Tao on the rooftop, finish packing and off to the airport. We left LA on the red eye to Zurich. Swiss Air, is now my second favorite airline (behind Virgin America). The airline had wonderful qualities like ease in check-in, pleasant staff on the flight, comfortable seats, tasty food, good movie selection, landed on time, and our bags arrived quickly. These features are not always available on most airlines!
We enjoyed a five-hour lay over in Zurich, to the best of our ability. The airport is clean with comfy seats. We even found an area with piano bar and guitar player. He played “new age” versions of many popular songs, it was quite relaxing. Speaking of relaxing, we found a chair massage place that we decided we should try out, very nice.
The second leg was a short flight but I fell into a deep airplane sleep. By the time we arrived to our hotel and got settled, I was awake? So Brooke and I stayed up chatting for a little while with the manager of the hotel.
(Th May27) Pireus, Greece. (European Continent) The first stop in Athens was the Acropolis. This was so amazing to see! The magnificence of these temples is outstanding. We had numerous highlights here. The Parthenon, Temple of Athena, Temple of Zeus, the Olympic stadium (original Olympic games – not the 2004 Olympics). They had this brand new modern museum that had statues and many artifacts dating all the way back to the beginning of Athens. Although the building was so modern, there was a glass sidewalk that you could see from above the original bulding and how they were partially cutout!
The first pic is the entrance to the acropolis.
A view of the magnificent Temple of Athena
The second pic I am standing in front of the Temple of Athena.
We are in front of the backside of the Acropolis. You can see the cranes and how they are “refurbishing” it. Brooke was there ten years ago, and they have made significant progress since then.
The original Olympic stadium from the first Olympics back in 1896. The stadium was made completely of marble that was imported.
Raising my arms to the Olympic rings!
Ok – So I had to do one Yoga pose, Dancer Pose, in front of the Olympic stadium.
Seeing the Acropolis and these magnificent ruins, was a phenomenal way to start our trip. After a day of sightseeing we headed back to the boat, relaxed and got our bearings.
We sailed off into the sunset heading for Santorini, Greece. This is one of our favorite locations as we were there last year as well. This time it will be fun taking Brooke’s mom Ruth and Gary to show them our favorite spots. By the way – these beautiful scenic pictures are all taken by Brooke – he has such an eye for this!
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