3 days in Athens 🇬🇷 Find out why it's my new favourite city!

Athens is packed full of great bars, shops and restaurants, it has amazing street art, it also has a beach a short tram or bus ride from the centre and obviously steeped in History with highlight being the Acropolis that towers over the city.
Join us for the 3 day trip to find out why Athens is our new favourite city!
Check out my blog with tips and info: westgoeaeast.wordpress.com/20...

Пікірлер: 64

  • @TravellingTorunn
    @TravellingTorunn3 ай бұрын

    No wonder that Athens has become one over your favorite cities. I have never been there but the video shows a beautiful city with a lot of great opportunities. Fantastic views too. I didn’t know there was a beach as well. If I ever get to Athens, I believe I'd rather pay for my ticket to Acropolis instead of being half choked in a crowd. But fir now, Jordan is the first place I'll go. Hopefully it is still safe and peaceful to visit 😃 Thank you for this great video 🤩

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    3 ай бұрын

    Yes, I think paying the entrance would have been better tbh but we didn't realise how busy it would be. I'm sure Jordan will be safe. Have a great time!

  • @TravellingTorunn

    @TravellingTorunn

    3 ай бұрын

    @@WestGoesEast Thank you! I will post some pics on Instagram 🙂

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    3 ай бұрын

    @@TravellingTorunn Looking forward to seeing them!

  • @cherrillrichardson3570
    @cherrillrichardson35703 ай бұрын

    Another great film. Thankyou for showing us around your new favourite city. It looks like a fantastic long weekend break. Also as per all your films there are some excellent helpful tips.

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    3 ай бұрын

    Why thank you! 🙂

  • @Andrew30us
    @Andrew30usАй бұрын

    Been to Athens 4x now and I am in love!

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    Ай бұрын

    It's a great city isnt it!

  • @ianhilditch8743
    @ianhilditch87433 ай бұрын

    Another great video Phil. Athens is a great city. The wether looked glorious too!

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    3 ай бұрын

    Thanks mate. Yes, we really lucked out with the weather!

  • @geapgr
    @geapgrАй бұрын

    Great video. Athens is beautiful and so is Emma!😊

  • @MatHall
    @MatHall3 ай бұрын

    A brilliant watch as always phil and emma!!

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    3 ай бұрын

    Thank you mate!

  • @Jinxguy1000
    @Jinxguy100018 күн бұрын

    Just got back from Athens. Not going to lie it's a lovely mix of historic and modern times. The big issues are obviously the traffic and that slick marble that's everywhere. Lycabettus was lovely and the walk up through kolonaki is probably worse than the walk up the mount itself.

  • @bananana2624
    @bananana2624Ай бұрын

    fantastic drone views and captures of nigh time atmosphere. Thanks

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    Ай бұрын

    Thanks for watching! 🙂

  • @VERY_VARIOUS_VIDEOS
    @VERY_VARIOUS_VIDEOSАй бұрын

    Wonderful Athens places and views. Video 👍

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    Ай бұрын

    Thanks! 🙏

  • @VERY_VARIOUS_VIDEOS

    @VERY_VARIOUS_VIDEOS

    Ай бұрын

    @@WestGoesEast You're welcome and thank you for share and subs friend 🙂

  • @scottyb66rpbfl
    @scottyb66rpbfl2 ай бұрын

    Loved your video, it brought back so many wonderful memories! We went to the Acropolis on a Saturday in May 2022 just after 5:30pm. The tourist hordes were all leaving and the crowds at the top were light and kept thinning out until we practically had the place to ourselves. It was great! We stayed until closing time when the Greek military came to take down the flag. The Temple of Hephaestus in the Ancient Agora is also a must see.

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you! Yes, if I went again I'd like to go to Acropolis when it's quiet. We looked around the Temple of Hephaestus too...very nice! :)

  • @user-hw7hn3eq5h
    @user-hw7hn3eq5h2 ай бұрын

    I like your video and your respect. Thank you

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    2 ай бұрын

    I like your country :) thanks for watching!

  • @hanifahim83
    @hanifahim83Ай бұрын

    Great vid

  • @hobocyclist
    @hobocyclist3 ай бұрын

    Amazing! the real deal travel show!! love the drone shots too. Do you have the dji pocket3?

  • @hobocyclist

    @hobocyclist

    3 ай бұрын

    oh i saw the gopro shadow there! nice pro shots

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    3 ай бұрын

    Good action cam knowledge! Yeah I go a gopro 9. I want a new one though but not sure which one to get to fit my needs as some do things others don't etc

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    3 ай бұрын

    Cheers mate! Yeah those city drone shots made me a tad nervous! Ha

  • @hobocyclist

    @hobocyclist

    3 ай бұрын

    @@WestGoesEast Yeah I'm with you on that one, i have gopro hero4, ive seen its still used in some of the alone series as new go pro have a rep for overheating/ turning off. I need an upgrade though. congrats on that Faroes vid passing 100k thats awesome

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    3 ай бұрын

    @hobocyclist id be content if the latest gopro turned on instantly. Thanks, yeah wish my other videos were doing that well ha! Your channel is growing nicely! 10k before you know it!

  • @jameshchetwyndjr9739
    @jameshchetwyndjr97392 ай бұрын

    My new favorite too

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    2 ай бұрын

    Great isn't it!

  • @AudiophileTubes
    @AudiophileTubesАй бұрын

    Athens is WAY COOL! It's like 2 worlds colliding.... the ancient and the modern!

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    Ай бұрын

    Tru dat!

  • @SegHD
    @SegHD3 ай бұрын

    Hello! I love your videos. I have been watching your videos a while, my favourite being the Isle of Wight! I was just wondering what camera equipment you use?I must say from someone who lives in the South Downs, very beautiful walks around here

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    3 ай бұрын

    Nice one, thanks! I use a gopro 9, a Sony 6100 and a dji mini 2. I live in Brighton so know the south downs well. Have you seen my South downs way hike videos? First videos I ever did.

  • @SegHD

    @SegHD

    2 ай бұрын

    Oh nice one! I have watched them well over 5 times :) I’m currently rewatching them again on day 3. You went past my village on the South Downs by the vandalian tower. Hoping to give the Isle of Wight costal path and South Downs a go! Keep up the videos! Love them all!

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    2 ай бұрын

    @@SegHD Wow 5 times! thank you and glad you are enjoying them! :)

  • @SegHD

    @SegHD

    2 ай бұрын

    I usually watch them while I work from home, it gets me excited to go get lost in the hills and the fields. Looking forward to your next walk

  • @SegHD

    @SegHD

    2 ай бұрын

    If you need any suggestions on walks, Chichester harbour is a nice walk to do

  • @papertoyss
    @papertoyss2 ай бұрын

    08:18 I feel Frank Black would be ok with this performance. Nice video

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    2 ай бұрын

    They were a great covers band!

  • @kloatlanta
    @kloatlanta27 күн бұрын

    The bus ticket is just like the metro ticket.

  • @andreaszulkarnaen7998
    @andreaszulkarnaen7998Ай бұрын

    Bus is free, I bought the Plastic Bus Card but no one pays and never seen any ticket checker either. Love Athens and Greece❤❤❤

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    Ай бұрын

    Good to know! Thanks

  • @user-vo5mf3ly9s

    @user-vo5mf3ly9s

    Ай бұрын

    It isn't free if you catch you in control tickets you payed 60 times the price of ticket

  • @markanderson2339
    @markanderson2339Ай бұрын

    where can you fly your drone in Athens? did you have any issues flying it over the acropolis

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    Ай бұрын

    I just took my chances. I got a notification to say it's the Acropolis but it didn't stop me.

  • @markanderson2339

    @markanderson2339

    Ай бұрын

    @@WestGoesEast what drone are you using? I live on the edge of a frz and my dji stops access, I know eu are now getting quite strict and you need a operator id

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    Ай бұрын

    @@markanderson2339 I have a dji mini 1. I don't have an operator ID or anything like that

  • @AkasaurusRex
    @AkasaurusRex2 ай бұрын

    Well Emma is the most Beautiful woman on earth….I challenge you sir to a Duel for her hand! We’d have to dress up in outfits from the film Robin Hood Men in Tights, as it’s what I’m referencing lol 😻

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    2 ай бұрын

    Challenge accepted! Haha

  • @mmturner
    @mmturner2 ай бұрын

    How did you think you were getting a balcony with a view of the acropolis? Wishful thinking?

  • @WestGoesEast

    @WestGoesEast

    2 ай бұрын

    Because I wrote to the hotel to ask for a room with a view of the Acropolis and they said they would try their best to give us one. That's how...

  • @mmturner

    @mmturner

    2 ай бұрын

    I watched hoping to learn something but gave up after the bus ride bit

  • @KNIGHTTEMPLAR555

    @KNIGHTTEMPLAR555

    2 ай бұрын

    @@WestGoesEastAs an Athenian Greek,I’m sorry for the idiots at your hotel.They should tell you that, we don’t have a room with Acropolis view.

  • @PERIKLISTSINTZAS
    @PERIKLISTSINTZASАй бұрын

    Greek big cities unfortunately and i mean the buildings are ugly dull miserable very little spaces between them with no green full of concrete,in the contrary with greek villages and islands which are all beautiful.I would like for my cities to be like budapest with these beautiful traditional buildings or New york style with scyscrapers.

  • @bwana-ma-coo-bah425
    @bwana-ma-coo-bah4252 ай бұрын

    Whilst Greece is a nice place, the people are not. It is not a case of if or when you will get ripped off, because you will, the question you have to ask yourself is how much and how often.

  • @Pete-uo1ei

    @Pete-uo1ei

    2 ай бұрын

    Indeed. For sure you will be ripped off by taxi drivers. For us greeks it is for example difficult to find a taxi in the Summer, especially at ports or airports, where taxi drivers prefer to take first foreign tourists and ask 2-3 higher fee. Sad but true...

  • @bwana-ma-coo-bah425

    @bwana-ma-coo-bah425

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Pete-uo1ei This is not restricted only to taxis. It happens in restaurants and site like the acropolis, just to name a few.

  • @101logic

    @101logic

    2 ай бұрын

    Clearly you haven’t got experience in travelling if you are getting ripped off from every direction.

  • @user-vo5mf3ly9s

    @user-vo5mf3ly9s

    Ай бұрын

    Really because you have a case with one taxi driver the whole Greek are not good!? Get serious

  • @bwana-ma-coo-bah425

    @bwana-ma-coo-bah425

    Ай бұрын

    @@user-vo5mf3ly9s It was not one taxi driver, it was every taxi driver. It included restaurants and even sites. Example. Epidavros, Diro, and, Olympia.