Greek Tour

[jen]

Followed on from my post about my trip to Greece with the Aberdeen City Youth Brass Band, I thought Id share some of my pictures. I teach some of the kids in the band and conduct the Junior Band so was asked along to help out. The band performed in 3 different places and all concerts had decent sized audiences, which is always good. We arrived in Athens late Mon 22/early Tues 23 June and stayed in Athens for 3 nights. Had first day free as we had arrived in the middle of the night so we were all knackered. Went out for lunch, and the staff at the burger joint got the fright of their lives seeing 43 of us pile in. The manager couldnt keep the smile off his face funnily enough!!

Day 2 and we all headed to the Acropolis, via some sights in Athens. It looked quite small from street level but when you get to the Acropolis, its MASSIVE!! Absoultely amazing. Afterwards we went to the New Acropolis Museum. It had only opened on the Saturday before we arrived. Really nice museum. If any of you are going to Athens, a visit to this museum is a must. Beware though - the floors are made of glass so when you look up, you can see everyone walking above you. Good job I wore 3/4 length trousers that day!! I also met someone there (see pic below) and I admit I got a little star struck! A few pics from Day 2:

The Old Olympic Stadium

The Acropolis from Street View

View over Athens - including the new museum

A small section of the Parthenon

The start of the new Acropolis Museum (apologies for the quality-I was being jostled about a fair bit)

Me and the Grand Designs Legend! Apologies for the photo quality-my camera ran out of batteries just before this and had to use my iphone. The camera on that phone is cr@p!!

The next day we went to Delphi where the Oracle was said to have been based. We sat on a bus for 3 and a half hours, spent and hour and a half looking at the ruins, spent an hour in the village for lunch and got on the bus for the journey home for another 3 and a half hours. A little unessesary as most of the students were bored out of their skull but Im glad we went. Some pics:


A lot of the stones had writing inscribed

Some good driving roads

I like this pic:

Next day we went on our 3 day cruise round some of the Greek Islands. On the Friday evening, we arrived at Mykonos, really nice place, really quaint. Next day we went to Rhodes (my favourite) and played our second concert on the cruise ship. On the Sun, we went to Patmos, then Kusadasi, Turkey. Some pics:
'Little Venice' at Mykonos

Our boat at sunset

Rhodes

The day we arrived back in Athens, we went to Cape Sounion, where the Temple of Poseidon is. Really beautiful place.


We had our last concert that night, then the next day we went to a shopping mall which was next to the new Olympic Stadium then we left the day after.

It really was a great trip, most school trips never go as smoothly as this one did and Im positive it was down to the amount of organising that was done and the respect the kids have for the conductor of the band. It is a trip that will never be forgotten, by the staff and the students.

Well folks, thanks for reading! Sorry it goes on for so long!

Jen

[g1zmo26]

Hi Jen great pics not had time to read all the story yet but I will. Just love Greece much better than Spain more to see and stuff.

Stuart

[Jacobite]

Looks fabulous Jen thanks for sharing
cheers Hamish

[tut]

Lovely photos Jen, just showing them to Verian as it is the sort of sightseeing that she would like to do.

tut

[jen]

Thanks guys! It was a great trip and I would recommend it, but, I went to Venice and Verona a couple of years back with the Aberdeen Grammar and I fell head over heels in love with the place! Italy is the only place in the world I have been where Iv said "I want to go back there" when Iv got back home.

Some pics of Verona:




We went to Garda Land (Like Alton Towers) and the views were spectacular but these pics dont do it any justice:


Then onto Venice:





Vivaldi's Church! I was in my element here!




Amazing. I wanna go back!!

[holly]

great pics put me in the mood for a wee holiday

[jen]

You know this, after looking through all my pics, Im in the mood for a holiday now too!! Cant afford to though so it looks like Im stuck going to Balmedie beach for the time being......