Here’s us in Athens visiting the Parthenon, in the Acropolis area. It was only a few stations away from the subway stations by our hotel.
Interesting Subway Fact: Unlike all other subway (a.k.a. “metro”) systems I’d been on, the ticket was never required to enter; however, you are supposed to buy it and “validate it” by putting it in a machine that prints the date/time on it. If you don’t have a validated ticket and a subway employee checks the passengers’ tickets, then you pay a hefty (~75 USD) fine. Not having to enter your ticket in a turnstile machine before being able to board the metro saves a lot of time and seemed to be a pretty cool idea to us.
Here’s a picture of my friend Andrew and his travel buddies near the Acropolis. I love his commentary about the metro system in Athens, and I experienced this honors system firsthand yesterday (though I had forewarning and knew what to expect from his post). I’ve ridden light rail systems in the US that operate this way, but it seemed unusual to me for such a large subway system to work like this.
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