Kicking Off Our Greece Honeymoon in Athens!! - First Impressions + Food Tour
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- Опубликовано: 13 авг 2024
- Join us on our Greece honeymoon!
After a long travel day with two layovers and being up for over 24 hours, we finally arrive in Athens around noon. We took the metro to Syntagma Square, found our Airbnb, and took a breather before going out to explore the city.
We were hungry from our big travel day so we stopped at two spots - Stani and The Greco's Project. Even just walking around for a few hours to get food, we saw a lot of old sites. It made us even more excited for what's to come!
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We are Matt and Rachel, a couple based out of Pittsburgh, with a knack for adventure. We want to discover all of what this wonderful world has to offer. Follow along on our journey of exploring exciting places, meeting new friends, and trying unique foods! Join us in this crazy adventure we call life and learn with us as we go.
00:00 Intro
01:00 Flights
02:08 Arriving in Athens
03:16 Airbnb Tour
05:18 Exploring Athens
06:16 Little Kook (Alice in Wonderland)
07:00 Stani
09:17 More of Athens
10:27 The Greco's Project
13:56 Outro
Wonderful everything. Athens is so incredible. I truly love it.
Regarding the little idea about the plumbing. In fact, when cities in Europe and beyond started to grow fast in terms of population, everywhere plumbing ofcourse had to be created. And the thing with Greece is that Greece is immensely mountainous and many stone types everywhere. To cut through stone and marble and so on is so much more work than like here in the Netherlands where we have clay soil. So this is the reason why plumbing pipes in the Netherlands is simply bigger and those of some cities in Greece smaller due to the complexity of getting the plumbing in place. But also this will be a thing of the past as ofcourse plumbing is being replaced by bigger pipes over time.
Thank you for explaining that!! We heard a few other European cities are the same way. Love those Greek mountains!
And also for enviromental issues if everybody throw the paper in the WC its a Mess
Hello greetings from Las Vegas! That's really long flight two lay over. Fantastic B&B close to everything. Great yogurt desert and Alice thge wonderland Restaurant. Greece has old Churches and enormous history behind. Congratulations! Enjoy your honeymoon.
It was definitely a long travel day but so worth it! Athens has a great variety of food and things to do. We had a blast! Thank you for watching!
Looks so beautiful!!
I wish you all the happiness in the world ❤️
Thank you so much! 🥰
the dessert you got at the first restaurant is called halva (olive oil, semolina, sugar) drizzled with homemade syrup(water, sugar) and cinnamon.
Ooh semolina, that makes so much more sense now. Thanks!
Wonderful presentation. 👍
Have a great Sunday.
A delicious excursion. Thank you!
Thank you for watching!
Congratulations! 👍❤
Thank you! 😊
We love Greece! A perfect honeymoon destination!😍
We had a blast! Very happy with our decision to have a Greek honeymoon.
Welcome!
Im guessing you are staying for 2-3 nights in Athens and then off to the islands?
If you have any questions just ask :)
Have a nice time here!
Yup, that's exactly what we did. We stayed 3 nights in Athens and then went island hopping. We had a blast. ☺
This is so beautiful - and I am so jealous! Did you go through an agent/company to book your flights and organize your Airbnb's or did you organize all of your own travel?
Thank you! We booked everything ourselves. ☺️ flights, accommodations, ferries. It’s kind of a hobby of mine. - Rachel
You guys are so cute...congrats on your marriage. Cheers 🥂
Aw thank you! We appreciate it.
the Greek version of lasagna is the pastissio
We saw that on the menu but weren’t sure what it was! Definitely looks like a more traditional lasagna. Wish we would’ve tried it!
@@MattandRachelTravel It is better than Lasagna without a doubt! It's more aromatic with deeper layered flavors than Lasagna
Sounds like we need to go back just for the pastissio!
The church you've been on 05:40 it's not ruins as you call it. Ruins are ruins. This one isn't and it's still work. For our standards, a thousands years old church isn't old because there are buildings or ruins in Greece that are 2000-5000 years old. We mostly call something ancient that is over 2000 years old(B.C.).
Also an original Greek yogurt is made by ship milk. What you have In America isn't a Greek yogurt but a variety of a Greek Yogurt from cow milk which is called in Greece Straggisto(Drained Yogurt)
Thanks for the insight! Greece was definitely a change of perspective! For us in the United States, anything that is over a few hundred years old is considered old. But in Greece, finding man-made structures that date back to thousands of years ago is very common. Ruin, was definitely the wrong word choice since it’s still very much in operation! It was the first older structure we came across, and we had nothing to compare it to. For lack of a better word we called it ruins.
As for the yogurt you’ll see cow was on the menu, but I mention we ordered sheep. Thanks again for sharing!
@@MattandRachelTravel In US you can find sheep yogurt or Greek yogurt from the greek company FAGE. I'm almost sure is everywhere in America. The company is propably made the best cow milk strained yogurt. You should try it.
@@georgekoul We've seen that brand in stores but never knew it was Greek. We will definitely be trying it soon now that we know!
@@MattandRachelTravel Yep. From Athens. It's a global firm. Try also Graviera cheese.An other Greek cheese that you can find it from FAGE in US. I believe you gonna like it also. Fried or as it is.
Congrats on your marriage! I’m a new subbie but I thought you were black from the thumbnail
Thank you!! I think it was just the lighting when we took the picture, or maybe that honeymoon glow. ✨ Thanks for watching!
really fun video
Thank you!!
The commentary was great by the 2 of you.
A lot of travel videos focus on the visuals and less on the narration. I see you're doing it differently?
@@Renegen1 Aw, that's so kind of you to say! We really try to add useful context and explain our experiences (things we know we would appreciate seeing in videos) to help those who are trying to plan a trip themselves. Thank you again! 🥰
See more from Europe 😎So much to see 👍
We have many countries on our list. Wish we could see all of them!
@@MattandRachelTravel Which country would you like to see first. My favorite country is Thailand. Because my wife come from this country and I had learn so much there. But next we want go to Japan, if this is open. We wish you that you see much countries to. See you Siri and Uwe
Thailand looks like a beautiful country! What part is she from? I’ve always been interested in Chiang Mai. Actually, Japan is the next country we are hoping to go to! Fingers crossed they open back up. - Rachel
@@MattandRachelTravel Hello, my wife is from Nakhon Ratchasima 3.30 hours from Bangkok in north west. We had made a Tour from Chiang Mai to Chiang Rai. you can find it on our chanel. There are many tea and coffee plantain there . I like coffee and its is great in Thailand. Next year we want go to Japan, but is not open, because corona. If you like to go to Thailand, we can help you a little bit, because we have visit the north and the south and Bangkok. If you have any question ask us and we hope we can help. Have a nice Sunday and hope to see you on our chanel . Best wishes Siri and Uwe
@@MattandRachelTravel Yes we too and we think we can so much learn, if we go in other countries. Have a nice week Siri and Uwe
Did you guys get a phone “plan” from your cellphone company or just went without?
Great question! We actually are going to make a tips video on this exact question.
We usually use Google Fi because it works in a bunch of other countries, but it wasn't working for us this trip. We ended up getting a local sim card from a girl working for Cosmote in Syntagma Square in Athens.
@@MattandRachelTravel thank you!!
Dont worry about that basket, its there to through out "lady staff" ;) You can through papers in the toilet. :)
We heard horror stories about people clogging the pipes, so we wanted to be on the safe side!
For the part when you say "nothing in America is that old" I think that in America there are sites that old like some national parks in Colorado, Ohio, Illinois etc that feature ancient ruins of the Native Americans and the large pyramids of the Maya or Inca civilizations that are located in Latin America
Our apologies! When we said “nothing is that old” we meant in comparison to where we live in the United States. Man-made structures that are over a few hundred years old are hard to come by. Although, there is a cool serpent mound in Ohio we want to check out that dates back to 800 B.C.
The Greek civilazation started the 8th century,the Incas the 12th so compared to this nothing in America is older than Greek civilization
Definitely! Greece is the birthplace of Western civilization. It’s truly amazing how far back everything dates. Matt is proud to have some Greek DNA in him. - Rachel
A very informative channel and great contens I enjoyed watching most of your videos Thanks for sharing .Subbed , a fellow creator,,..,.,.,