Yannis’ apartment was the ideal spot to explore the city - centrally located so we could walk to everything we were planning to see, spacious with a *huge* balcony and *incredible* view directly facing the Acropolis, and also just really cool, decorated with vintage posters, video equipment, and his underwater photography (which was really amazing).
Even better than the apartment though was Yannis himself - it seems like there are plenty of great apartments on Airbnb in Athens, but having someone as welcoming and interesting and fun as Yannis as a host made our trip really special. He was there to greet us when we arrived and took the time to suggest things to do, help us figure out how to get to them, and gave us suggestions for restaurants and bars, all of which were fantastic. I’m still dreaming about some of the food from Nolan, one of his recommendations. We spontaneously ended up hanging out for hours on the balcony on our last night talking about movies and books and life - it was one of the highlights on what was already a great trip. I can’t recommend highly enough!