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Post your Athens pics!! I miss this city so much

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These photos are from the bakery across the street from my home. I didn't know what I wanted for breakfast, so I took some pics for my wife to help
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These are some loukoumathes (also my favorite) I bought from a panigiri festival just outside of my house last year.
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Great photos of Athens (I am so hungry, right now too!) LOL. :)

Here is my favorite photo that I took last time I was in Athens:

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ellinasgolfer0320 said:
These photos are from the bakery across the street from my home. I didn't know what I wanted for breakfast, so I took some pics for my wife to help
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How I miss the Greek Bakery in Mykonou...❤️>>>>>They look delicious.. Efgharisto polee.❣️
 
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ellinasgolfer0320 said:
These photos are from the bakery across the street from my home. I didn't know what I wanted for breakfast, so I took some pics for my wife to help
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Eftina iney!...Dhen iney akriva Phedhia!❤️
 
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Eftina iney!...Dhen iney akriva Phedhia!❤️
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Etsi mpravo! Den pira tipota ap autes tis eikones.
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How I miss the Greek Bakery in Mykonou...❤️>>>>>They look delicious.. Efgharisto polee.❣️
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I love going to the bakery. I always get zamponotiropita (ham and cheese pie) when I go to the bakery.
 
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Etsi mpravo! Den pira tipota ap autes tis eikones.

I love going to the bakery. I always get zamponotiropita (ham and cheese pie) when I go to the bakery.
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2 for me also Para Kalllo polleeee!!❤️?
 
Here are photos I took in Athens last time I was allowed into Greece in 2019
 

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Vangelis said:
Here are photos I took in Athens last time I was allowed into Greece in 2019
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Beautiful!! Do you plan on going again soon?
 
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Beautiful!! Do you plan on going again soon?
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Yes but I currently live in Australia so I can't get out of the country. I have booked in my second vaccination for next week so I'm all ready to go when borders open again. I love Athens and live centrally when I go there. I can't wait to get back, walk down the streets of Athens and take in the sights and smells of the Athenian spring and summer. I expect that I will be able to travel next year and then I'll be going every year after that.

Do you go often or do you live there?
 
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Yes but I currently live in Australia so I can't get out of the country. I have booked in my second vaccination for next week so I'm all ready to go when borders open again. I love Athens and live centrally when I go there. I can't wait to get back, walk down the streets of Athens and take in the sights and smells of the Athenian spring and summer. I expect that I will be able to travel next year and then I'll be going every year after that.

Do you go often or do you live there?
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I wish I lived there! I live in Tennessee but my family is Armenian. I have a few family members living in Greece and they speak so highly of it. I've only been a few times but I would love to go back, especially Athens :) I hope you're able to visit Greece again soon, if not this year then the next for sure!!
 
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I wish I lived there! I live in Tennessee but my family is Armenian. I have a few family members living in Greece and they speak so highly of it. I've only been a few times but I would love to go back, especially Athens :) I hope you're able to visit Greece again soon, if not this year then the next for sure!!
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Where in Tennessee? I'm from Tennessee too.
 
Wow, thank you guys for sharing these pics! Here's one:

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