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

[@geapgr]

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

[@cherrillrichardson3570]

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]

Why thank you! 🙂

[@Andrew30us]

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

[@WestGoesEast]

It's a great city isnt it!

[@ianhilditch8743]

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

[@WestGoesEast]

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

[@TravellingTorunn]

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]

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]

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

[@WestGoesEast]

@@TravellingTorunn Looking forward to seeing them!

[@nancysiouta7038]

As a local I might say that tourists do really get a distorted idea of the city, the government has just kept a small part of it looking nice so that tourists would like it but the rest, I mean the residential areas... some of them are nice but too costly and the others where accommodation is affordable are just.... 😢

[@bananana2624]

fantastic drone views and captures of nigh time atmosphere. Thanks

[@WestGoesEast]

Thanks for watching! 🙂

[@scottyb66rpbfl]

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]

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! :)

[@MatHall]

A brilliant watch as always phil and emma!!

[@WestGoesEast]

Thank you mate!

[@VERY_VARIOUS_VIDEOS]

Wonderful Athens places and views. Video 👍

[@WestGoesEast]

Thanks! 🙏

[@VERY_VARIOUS_VIDEOS]

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

[@ninadiamant8937]

On the Lykaveto Hill many famous people have walked as well! Pericles, Socrates... Insane to think about this.

[@WestGoesEast]

Yes, never really considered that. That's very cool 😊

[@ΑκριβήΤαράτσα]

I like your video and your respect. Thank you

[@WestGoesEast]

I like your country :) thanks for watching!

[@Jinxguy1000]

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.

[@AudiophileTubes]

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

[@WestGoesEast]

Tru dat!

[@nancysiouta7038]

It's always the same though! It's a constant repetition of the same old patterns, the failure of democracy, power relations, corruption, inability to communicate, lies, lies, lies... but some(a few!) good moments also within all this.

[@jameshchetwyndjr9739]

My new favorite too

[@WestGoesEast]

Great isn't it!

[@hobocyclist]

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

[@hobocyclist]

oh i saw the gopro shadow there! nice pro shots

[@WestGoesEast]

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]

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

[@hobocyclist]

@@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]

@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!

[@henpat23]

Hi, when did you visit Athens please? I’m wondering if February is a good month to go (beginning of the month) and if the weather is nice enough to walk around comfortably?

[@WestGoesEast]

We went early February and it was really warm for us. We were lucky with the weather though so not sure what it would be like if the sun wasn't out?

[@SegHD]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@SegHD]

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]

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

[@kloatlanta]

The bus ticket is just like the metro ticket.

[@papertoyss]

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

[@WestGoesEast]

They were a great covers band!

[@andreaszulkarnaen7998]

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]

Good to know! Thanks

[@ΒαγγεληςΝοτης]

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

[@robertmcmeechan5992]

Hi , how do you plan your routes and accommodation. Thanks

[@WestGoesEast]

Accommodation, I make a short list on booking.com and then decide which is best value or looks the nicest. Routes, I'll look on TripAdvisor to see what it suggests doing or I'll look on Google images and see what looks cool to see. Hope that helps?

[@hanifahim83]

Great vid

[@tavil5442]

What type of clothing would you recommend to go in March?

[@WestGoesEast]

Well it won't be freezing and won't be that hot. So perhaps take a coat but not a super thick one

[@AkasaurusRex]

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]

Challenge accepted! Haha

[@AndersonDroneServices]

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

[@WestGoesEast]

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

[@AndersonDroneServices]

@@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]

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

[@mmturner]

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

[@WestGoesEast]

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]

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

[@KNIGHTTEMPLAR555]

@@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.

[@michaelhoran407]

Go to Turkey, friendly people and not crowded like Greece.

[@WestGoesEast]

I've been a few times. I like Turkey

[@Kwlas1]

Geeza Metaxoutgeio and Psyrri different Suburbs. Pity you got a minuscule balcony and a building view and not the rock😮😂😂 Line 3 the airport line doesn’t go to Metaxorgeio 😂😂 I’m embarrassed for you not even researching the correct spelling of Flisvos Marina 😮

[@dral9971]

Tourism is dying by itself. Or rather, with climate change. There is no excuse for contributing to the climate disaster, there is no excuse for destroying the cultural heritage of other countries - however well-intentioned. And by the way, the heat in the Mediterranean countries is already a health hazard.

[@PERIKLISTSINTZAS]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@101logic]

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

[@ΒαγγεληςΝοτης]

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

[@bwana-ma-coo-bah425]

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