Visiting Athens with kids should be on everyone's to-do list. As soon as we walked out of the metro in the dusky half-light of evening and stood on the pavement looking up at the Parthenon glittering on top of the Acropolis, I knew our time here would be special. Athens made me tingle, like my body knew this was going to be good before my brain had caught up!
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