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Why Piraeus Makes the Perfect Goodbye After a Semester in Athens

The last week of a semester in Athens has a strange feeling to it. Your apartment is half packed. Your favorite souvlaki spot already knows your order. And you keep thinking you should have done more. Most students spend those final days in the same places they spent the semester. Plaka, the Acropolis, the bars around Psyrri. That is fine. But there is a better place to say goodbye, and it is only a short metro ride away. It is Piraeus, the port that has served Athens for about 2,500 years. Here is why it works so well as a send-off, and how to plan…

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