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Athens: Enjoy the olives, the sunset, and the Acropolis

Athens is a little rough and unfurnished, but cheap food, incredible views from the Parthenon, and its base of history will blow your mind.
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A cartoonized view of the Acropolis and the Parthenon

Photos and Story by Kolby SolinskyInstagram

Everything everybody says: it's true. Athens is dirty.

There's graffiti, like, everywhere. It seems dangerous, although my jury's out on whether it actually is.

(Many places in Europe seem dangerous, just because the lights go down and you've never been there before. Chances are, one of your idiotic friends had his phone, wallet, and camera stolen from his own naivete, and he just couldn't stop blabbing to you about his terrible Europe is for that sort of thing.

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