3rd Athens Trip Recap

As I mentioned before, my recent third trip to Athens with Candace was a bit different from our previous two trips, the first of which was a general first-time tour for Candace and the second almost entirely centered around my DJ gig at Rye Bar that night. This time however, I suggested we go simply to get out of town, so short of eating out a few times and doing some bar-hopping that evening, we didn't really have much of a plan going in, which kinda showed.

After checking into our hotel, we tried to go to the Georgia Botanical Gardens, which were closed; fortunately, we were still able to take a nice (but hot) walk in the adjoining nature trails. After this, we made another somewhat aborted attempt at something to do, this time driving out to the local Terrapin Brewery for a tour that we didn't end up taking because we didn't want to have a ton to drink before we went out on the town later that night (you couldn't take the tour without buying $8 worth of drinks). Following this, we sort of aimlessly walked around downtown before eventually settling on getting a drink at a local coffee place.

At this point, having realized that going in without a plan might not have been such a hot idea, we just decided to go see Burn After Reading at one of the local theatres, which was certainly one of the highlights of the trip (review soon to come). After this, we had dinner at Mexicali, which despite being my favorite Mexican restaurant turned out to have horrible service this time around. We then changed at the hotel before heading out for our bar hopping, which featured the following bars/clubs: 8E's, All Good, The Winery, Blur, and Little Kings (three of which were new for both of us). As is typical, we concluded our evening with a meal at the 24-hour diner, The Grill.

The next day we were a little bit hungover and just grabbed some breakfast at The Grit before heading home and sleeping it off. Ultimately, despite the slight hangover and lack of plans, the trip was really fun. We tried some new stuff, had some great conversation, and got to get out of Atlanta for a bit, which was very needed.