we have spent really, really wonderful week in athens + delphi visiting our youngest daughter, who got an erasmus scholarship (=stipendium) and now studies for 1 semester in athens, greece. athens is one of world's oldest cities with over 3,500 years of history and its earliest human presence started somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennium BC, you know?
thanks to our daugther we could see more than average tourists do, i guess 😉. i liked especially the beaches in alimos we reached by tram, the street bars in the exarchia district, omonia by night, the ski village arachova (on our way to delphi) + the business university which looked inside like a leftist (antifa?) club building 👿
unesco heritage site in delphi, the (remainings of the) athena pronaia temple ~ greece / GR
unfortunatelly, i could not ask the delphic oracle (oracle of apollo) about my and our planet's future. why not? well, it was november, 1st and the museum season switched to winter mode. although we have been only few minutes after 3 p.m. there, the entry to the archeological site was closed and they've just waited till the last tourists leave the site. you know what? it does not really matter as - clever me - i asked already in the athena pronaia temple few minutes earlier => everything will be fine 😋
to give you and me an idea how the main archeological site of old delphi looks like, i've borrowed the nicest picture from google maps:
picture by GEORGE GKIATAS in google maps. source: here
enjoy few pictures from:
- our airbnb home's nice + safe acropolis district (akropolis) with its archeological attractions acropolis (unesco world heritage site), agora, filopappou hill + the old city districts plaka + monastiraki
- the wolf hill mount lykavittos (lycabettus, lykabettus, lykavittós, likavitou)
- beaches + marina in alimos
- night life in omonia + exarchia districts
- port of pireas / piraeus / piräus / pirreos + ferries to the (surrounnding) greek islands
- agistri island (agkistri, angistri) + egina island
- city of thiva
- snow & ski village arachova bellow the parnassos / parnassus massif (mount parnassus / parnass 2457 m)
- unesco heritage site in delphi
- cape sounion / sunion / sunium on the southernmost part of attica / attic peninsula and its beautiful poseidon temple
our adventure greece 2020 begins at munich airport with BMW 4 🚗
our 1st view to akropolis (parthenon temple) from our airbnb home's balcony
different countries, different habits 🍺
monastiraki
... the bell tower on mount lykavittos
view to mount lykavittos from acropolis
filopappou hill
acropolis
the 6 sculptured korai (the caryatids) of the erechtheion temple were my favorite view of acropolis. probably not only mine as there are not many matching parts left. of course, these are just replicas as 5 originals are in the adjacent acropolis museum and the last one in the british museum in london
(?) roman agora
acropolis today (above) and 150+ years before (below)
hadrian's gate + some other door/gate ...
acropolis museum
ancient gold coins
centaurus
the original 5 of 6 korai, the caryatids, of the erechtheion temple
real greek cousine ~ you show with your finger what you wanna eat 😋
victoria square
athens is an extremely densely populated city
marasleo megaro ~ athens university of economics and business ...
church in palaio faliro, athens
beaches in alimos (athens)
two of us
marina alimos, athens
the greek way to overcome obstacles 😂 ... this wall is ca. 3m high
pericles' wisdom
omonia square
still in omonia ...
traditional greek ...
traditions of immigrants ...
filopappou monument + filopappou hill
buskers in the exarchia district
brass band, video #1
sorry that i couldn't blur critical faces better. google's AI did not catch them as well 😇
brass band, video #2
port of pireas / piraeus / piräus / pirreos
our ferry from pireos & athens
egina island
agistri island (agkistri, angistri)
skala. agistri island (agkistri, angistri)
athens many years ago?
hairdressers can save lifes 😂
a day wihout laughter is a day wasted ... charlie chaplin is so right :-)
church agios georgios in thiva on our way to delphi
sow & ski village arachova bellow the parnassos / parnassus massif.
(mount parnassus / parnass 2457 m)
the clock tower in arachova
arachova village
unesco heritage site in delphi
back to athens ...
athina / athena herself :-)
cape sounion / sunion / sunium on the southernmost part of attica / attic peninsula
poseidon temple at cape sounion
me too 😇
one of the many nice tourists' restaurants below the acropolis
athens marathon ....
the future? where? and which future?
the scandalist + the justitia, blind as always ...
athens airport
the meteora monasteries, central greece
all in one?
back home ~ our greek 'souvenirs' ~ beers vergina, mythos, fix, alpha + olives
from alpha to omega ...
obligatory corona masks even outdoor, but as just everywhere else there are almost no above-average (flu) corona deaths in greece either. anyway, the greeks remember how a pandemic feels like:
source of the picture and explanation is wikipedia: The Plague of Athens was an epidemic that devastated the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece during the second year (430 BC) of the Peloponnesian War when an Athenian victory still seemed within reach. The plague killed an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 people, around one quarter of the population.
many, many more pictures here.
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