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Good Morning All,
This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into their world, whether they’re far away or close to home – pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty. By concentrating travel updates and tips here, it’s easier for all of us to keep up or find them later.
So please, speak up and share some of your adventures and travel news here, and submit your pictures using our speedy, secure form. You can submit up to 7 pictures at a time, with an overall description and one for each picture.
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For each picture, it’s best to provide your commenter screenname, description, where it was taken, and date. It’s tough to keep everyone’s email address and screenname straight, so don’t assume that I remember it “from last time”. More and more, the first photo before the fold will be from a commenter, so making it easy to locate the screenname when I’ve found a compelling photo is crucial.
Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!
Today, pictures from valued commenter otmar.
Here are some more pictures from the trip to Athens.
Syntagma square with the parliament of the Republic of Greece.
The view from the roof bar of Hotel Electra Metropolis. Beware the price of beer there almost reaches the levels of a normal bar in Oslo.
This is the Panathenaic Stadium. Originally built as a race-track it was converted into a stadium 144 AD and refurbished for the first modern Olympics in 1896. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panathenaic_Stadium
Monastiraki square.
Metropolitan Cathedral of the Annunciation
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Cathedral_of_Athens
Thank you so much otmar, do send us more when you can.
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Lapassionara
These are great, but I read the line in italics about the photos being from a trip to Athens before noticing who had taken them, and I thought for a second that we would be seeing photos of Athens, Georgia. Going to try to go back to sleep now.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Lapassionara: The Athens, Georgia pics are raven’s.
raven
@Lapassionara: I rarely take trips to where I live!
Mary G
So much history, atmosphere. Thanks, otmar.
Steeplejack
@raven:
You need to get out more.
Lapassionara
@raven: Still, photos of Athens, Georgia would be nice to see, also, too.
Mr. Prosser
Classical Greek architecture is, in my view, beautiful; but, the modern Parliament building is one ugly, unimaginative pile. Looks like a trump hotel in Topeka.
satby
otmar, it’s so great to have beautiful pictures to wake up to as relief from the ongoing travesty of our government. Greece just went on my bucket list, thanks!
Barbara
More great pictures of Athens! Thanks!
rikyrah
The pictures are quite lovely. Greece is on my bucket list.
SoupCatcher
Love these!
Thank you.