Elissavet has a wonderful apartment in a residential and commercial district of Athens that I made my home for a week. It is a five-minute s
walk from the Metro, on a street with three tram-bus lines, and within easy walking distance of the Acropolis, other sites, museums, and a tree-lines pedestrian street with cafes called Drakou. The apartment is one floor above a street filled with shops that have everything you’d ever need, and the sounds of neighborhood life float in through the windows. Elissavet’s apartment itself is well-appointed and feels like a home, with two balconies on which a morning coffee or evening drink can be had. It has a good selection of kitchen equipment and even a laundry machine! The only note, as others have written, is that the traffic is loud, which you’ll get used to, but could be jarring for people not used to city sounds.