athens + delphi, greece

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

greece

spending holidays where my tax money already is .... in greece :-)

well, after visiting rhodes / crete / chalkidiki some time ago, we are at the peloponnese peninsula this time. i can't tell you now if we will see olympia, sparta, mycenae / mykene, corinth, athens or if we ask the delphi oracle about our future ... of course there are some PICTURES and my blah-blah aka 'insights' as comment below the pictures => enjoy :-)

as for now, our hotel seems to be very fine and its free wifi connection works fine as well. the water in the see is damned cold but i was inside anyway, the service people in the hotel are very friendly (it was reported by the mainstream media that greeks hate us germans because of all that financial / debt crisis issues. OMG, as if we german folks would be responsible for that and as if i wasn't in the streets at any possible occasion in order to protest against the current financial-military complex => friends, let's  OccupyWallStreet + OccupyYourStreet + OccupyTogether = let's install a real 'direct' democracy now ... damn, how the hell can the 1% and its small dirty mainstream media divide all the nations & groups apart and conquer all of us so easily?

source? Я Ξ √ Ω L U T ↑ ☼ N ♥

is there any euro currency crisis out there? hell, i can't say by now, maybe later ....

a greek quote? a soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist. ~ sophocles (496 BC-406 BC)

next one? In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. ~ Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)

folks, what about the upcoming greek election? there are only 2 choices, aren't they? lol

source: facebook

well, any final thoughts / opinions? yep, we liked the greeks, greece, the small earthquake (hopefully not the offshoot of the deadly north italian earthquake), our hotel + its great service (especially the food ... yummy!) and the soooo nice sandy beach where we could walk for hours without any annoying stuff-selling folks, play beach volleyball, enjoy the warm water (maybe because so shallow for approximately 200 meters) ... what about a link? ok, it is a hotel i really can recommend to you especially in terms of value-for-money ratio, my dears: kyllini beach resort

and yes, the greeks have been very kind + friendly to us .... all greeks we have met and not only the 200 hotel employees and 10 ukrainian trainees making their living directly with us 700 tourists or folks making their living indirectly like taxi drivers + local farmers + tavern owners + gas stations employees and the like ... and yes, i still can speak some basic russian, at least the trainees understood what i have said ;-)

ferry to kefalonia island from kyllini port

the corinth canal

olympia

antio peloponnese, antio kyllini beach resort and see you some next holidays for sure ... there is still a lot to do / to see next time we didn't managed yet ~ e.g. the stinky sulfur bath which was approximately 1.5 hours walk from our hotel, the mountain villages + monasteries in the mountain stone walls close to olympia, delphi, athens, the east + middle + south peloponnese and the like :-)

our sea front tavern in peloponnese