Greece 2008

A few days in Athens in May - colder than I had expected, but still nice to be back. My first visit here was in 1977 - seems like another world now - except that outwardly, Athens has not changed at all. The Acropolis renovation work continues; the traffic is still chaotic and the food is just as I remembered. 

There is something about Athens that transcends time. It manages to be a modern city, but also one that does not forget the past.  Athens was colder and cleaner than I had expected. The traffic flowed well and the air did not have the same thickness that marred my last visit.

Odd to come back and find that some parts of Athens had not changed in 31 years. We ate dinner in a restaurant by St Georges chapel and watched as the sun sank into the night. The acropolis and the Parthenon glowed brightly against a backdrop of blue velvet.

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