Short day trips from Athens? (1-2 hours by train)

[185]

Bit stumped for what to do on our last day in Athens. Considered Meteora, but that's 4 hours away practically in Thessaloniki. Any ideas folks?

Cheers

 

[eddp]

We took the Proastiakos to Corinth - the new town is nice enough if nothing spectacular, but you can get to the ruins of old Corinth (we ended up getting a taxi from the station) and that is well worth the visit if you haven't been there already - and also the Corinth canal (and the Diolkos which was there before it) is impressive. Alternatively we looked at going to Chalkis/Chalkida which seemed worth the trip but we ended up not being able to go.

If you aren't set on going by train and the timing works, a quick trip on the ferry to either Aigina or Poros is also worthwhile, both are around 1h from Piraeus.

 

[Ken H]

We took the Proastiakos to Corinth - the new town is nice enough if nothing spectacular, but you can get to the ruins of old Corinth (we ended up getting a taxi from the station) and that is well worth the visit if you haven't been there already - and also the Corinth canal (and the Diolkos which was there before it) is impressive. Alternatively we looked at going to Chalkis/Chalkida which seemed worth the trip but we ended up not being able to go.

If you aren't set on going by train and the timing works, a quick trip on the ferry to either Aigina or Poros is also worthwhile, both are around 1h from Piraeus.

Corinth Canal. Love to see this

 

[185]

Much appreciated!

 

[MarcVD]

Mycenes. I don't know how you reach that site with public transport today. When I did it, I went by metre gauge train to Argos and then walked.