
1.
21 May 2007. The start - London City Airport - boarding our Swiss Air flight

2.
22 May 2007. Dubbs and Si, Odhos Egnatia, Central Thessaloniki

3. Panayia Halkeon,Dhikastirion Square

4. Ayia Sophia, based on the slightly bigger one in Constantinople

5. Sash with... well, what a man - a cracking 'tache, loads of guns and a great pair of pants
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6. Sash and Dubbs, the White tower on the sea front in the background (and another dude with a 'tache)

7. The Arch of Galerius, a grand nom

8. Rome's last great victories - licking the Persians

9. The Arch of Galerius and the Rotonda
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10. Above the entrance to the (originally Roman) Rotonda - mixture of Muslim and Christian

11. Living it up with some pink ice cream

12. Si has obviously never seen a fire extinguisher shop before

13. Ataturk's house.
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14. Young Ataturk, a local lad, with a great 'tache (picture hanging in the room where he was born)

15. Ataturk as a grand nom
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16. (Sadly blurred) Si, Sash and Dubbs with Ataturk (no, that's not a halo)

17. The Chain Tower and the Byzantine Walls overlooking Thessaloniki

18. Thessaloniki and the Aegean

19. Our train to Athens at Thessaloniki station

20. Have a seat next to Rafa in Syntagma Square

21. Good use of the steps in Syntagma

22. 4-goal lead anyone?

23. The crowds in Syntagma

24. And the flares

25. The Whartons.

26. Chin up, Everton

27.
23 May 2007. Walking up Odhos Athinas towards the Acropolis

28. Monastiraki Square and the Acropolis

29. The western gate to the Roman agora

30. The Temple of Hephaestus towering over the Ancient Agora in the rain

31. The Odeon of Herodes Atticus

32. The Propylae of the Acropolis

33. The Parthenon and a drenched Sash

34. The southern side of the Parthenon
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35. (Soaking wet) Cherdantsev, Sash and Vladimir Cantona on the Acropolis with the Erechtheum in the background

36. View back over the Acropolis - the Parthenon and the Erechtheum

37. The Erechtheum

38. The northern Portico of the Erechtheum

39. View East - the Arch of Hadrian and the Temple of Olympian Zeus

40. View North and West over the agoras

41. View North-East from above the Ancient Agora

42. The Temple of Hephaestus again

43. The reconstructed Stoa of Attalos and some dogs

44. Internal colonnade of the Stoa

45. Antoninus Pius

46. The Temple of Hephaestus through the trees of the Ancient Agora

47.... and close-up

48. Ancient tranquillity

49. The Acropolis in full glory

50. And some russky spoiling the picture

51. Monastiraki - nice for the Milan fans to turn up

52. And slightly earlier - the heaving Syntagma in front of the Greek Parliament

53. And those steps again

54. Back in Monastiraki Square

55. The Irini metro station exit for the first entry point for the Olympic Stadium

56. The entry point from the other side about 3 hours before the kick off

57. Streaming towards the ground itself

58. On approach to the second cordon, right near the stadium

59. Look at the state of this ticket

60. Sash at the Olympic Stadium, Athens, a couple of hours before the match

61. Bit empty here, isn't it, Dubbs

62. The travelling Kop

63. Dubbs and Sash, minutes before the kick off

64. The Milan end

65. The teams line up

66. 1st half

67. Back in the Athens City centre, thousands watching on big screens

68. YNWA at the end

69. Defeat

70. Milan about to lift the European Cup

71. Applauding the players after the match

72. Chin up, lads, we'll return

73. Back in town Syndagma is rocking - did we really lose?

74. The traditional post-European Cup Final photo where I try to obscure the Old Big Ears with my head

75. It's been emotional...
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76. 24 May 2007. Middle of the night - Si, Sash, Shaun and E still singing (something rude about Dom) in Syntagma

77. Singing with Milan fans in that lane in Monastriraki in the early hours after the final

78. Party hard

79. Party harder

80. Partied out... Naaaah... Thessaloniki Airport, about to fly back but back for more in Europe next season