[xzins]

My experience with Athens is limited to sitting on a plane on the tarmac.

My final tour in Europe, we had a chapel tour planned to trace Paul's route in Greece. That's exactly when Kosovo went down, so our commander canceled it based on a State Department memo regarding danger in Greece. (Something to do with Macedonia at the time, IIRC.)

So, I still long to go there.

Did find a Mt Athos website once that's awesome.

[apro]

"My final tour in Europe, we had a chapel tour planned to trace Paul's route in Greece. That's exactly when Kosovo went down, so our commander canceled it based on a State Department memo regarding danger in Greece. (Something to do with Macedonia at the time, IIRC."

I'm not surprise about that, given even if the government caved into the Clinton Admins. request in the end regarding Kosovo, the majority of the Greek population felt it was unjust war against fellow Serb Christians vs. Muslims and the whole FYROM thing has didn't help matters either. ;)