Athens, like a titillating treat savored for a moment on the traveler’s cycle. It is a city oozing with the sweets of today’s past, circumnavigating the present world; and with continuous force, Athens persists to inspire the evolution of mankind. Locked in a prison of Socrates’ mind, the city is that grain of rice, that morsel of bread, that last lick of ice cream to those who choose to linger and explore the many flavors of Greece’s capital.

From the headaches of navigating souvenir shops within the alleys of Plaka, through to the markets of Monastiraki and into the culture of the Athenian as Omonia Square revolves into the urban sprawls of various ethnicities; to savor Athens for as many grains, as many loaves, for as many licks of experience as possible is one to leave the insatiable belly churning.

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