Lonely Planet Pocket Athens

by Alexis Averbuck

Lonely Planet’s  Pocket Athens  is your guide to the city’s best experiences and local life - neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Go back in time at the Acropolis, marvel at the Temple of Olympian Zeus and hike the ancient Filopappou Hill; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Athens and make the most of your trip! Inside  Lonely Planet’s  Pocket Athens :  Full-colour  maps and travel photography throughout Highlights   and itineraries  help you tailor a trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips  to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info   at your fingertips  - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets  - eating, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Convenient pull-out Athens   map  (included in print version), plus over 21 colour neighbourhood maps User-friendly layout  with helpful icons, and organised by neighbourhood to help you pick the best spots to spend your time Covers  Acropolis, Ancient Agora, Temple of Olympian Zeus, Greek Parliament, Syntagma, Plaka, Keramikos, Gazi, Filopappou Hill, Thisio, Monastiraki, Psyrri, Exarhia, Kolonaki, Benaki Museum, and more The Perfect   Lonely Planet’s  Pocket Athens ,  an easy-to-use guide filled with top experiences - neighbourhood by neighbourhood - that literally fits in your pocket. Make the most of a quick trip to Athens with trusted travel advice to get you straight to the heart of the city.
  Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out  Lonely Planet’s  Greece  guide for a comprehensive look at all that the country has to offer.   About Lonely   Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day.  'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' – New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' – Fairfax Media (Australia)

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Reference

192 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2012

About the author

Alexis Averbuck is a painter and writer. She earned her degree at Harvard University, and has travelled and lived all over the world, from Sri Lanka to Zanzibar. Alexis crossed the Pacific by sailboat, lived in Antarctica for a year, and paints, photographs, and publishes books on her journeys for Lonely Planet travel guides, the BBC, magazines and online platforms. She’s had solo exhibitions of her oil paintings and watercolors, and also promotes travel and adventure in video and on television, recently starring in a program on Catalunya.

Through her travels, Alexis fell in love with Greece and made the island of Hydra her home; she now also lives in New York City.

Reviews

[Sabine · Rating 4 out of 5]

De voorpret voor mijn jaarlijkse stedentrip met zuslief is weer begonnen met het lezen van de Lonely Planet. Natuurlijk heb ik wéér wat geleerd over de geschiedenis van Europa (ik had geen idee dat er in de jaren zestig een dictator de macht had gegrepen en dat Griekenland tot die tijd een koningshuis had) en ik vind het mooi dat dat elke keer weer gebeurt.

Deze pocket behandelt de stad wijk voor wijk en bevat twee wandelroutes.

Ik heb er zin in.

[Ferio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Una guía Lonely Planet, pero en pequeñito (para esto que acabo de decir no me necesitaban ustedes). Creo que su tamaño reducido hace la información más congruente y concisa, como si hubiera menos necesidad de llenar páginas con mucho material estéril sobre bares y discotecas (aunque algo de eso hay también).

Lo que no termina de transmitirme bien la guía es si es pequeña porque la ciudad tampoco da mucho más de sí, o es sencillamente que aún no les ha dado tiempo a preparar un buen tomo para su publicación. Lo que también me mosquea bastante es que, al ser un documento estático, no muestra los cambios que puede haber por su actual situación sociopolítica, hundida en la miseria económica y llena de refugiados sirios. En algunos pasajes ya te dice que tengas cuidado, me pregunto si en la siguiente edición te recomendarán que lleves armas.

[Tammy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great little pocket guide for our 1 day visit to Athens. Fit in my bag easily for quick reference as we were walking around.

[Shriya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent pocket guide! I am really impressed with it's contents especially Athens neighbourhoods and local life. I have read my fair share of guide books for upcoming trip to Greece for Athens this has to be ultimate! However having not read every section I have kept it for my journey to Athens, skim reading it has still lived up to my expectation. On the down side this edition is 2016. The prices and restaurants may not be open this in my opinion should not stop you from purchasing pocket guide.

I am now converted that I will soon purchase Lonely Planet Pocket Berlin for another adventure this year. I highly recommend this book.

[Steph · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very informative.

[Maria Young · Rating 4 out of 5]

Trip preparation!

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a perfect pocket guide to this busy, bustling city. The pull out map was invaluable.