Saturday, 7 March 2009

Athens in pictures

The follow up from my post 'Athens in words'... here's a selection of the week's piccies!



This is the view from the street below, up to the (closed) Acropolis. Well, this bit is the Parthenon and for those of you who know a bit of Greek history / religiony things/ general stuff, should know that this was a temple dedicated to the Goddess Athena, the name-sake of the city.










Unfortunately I can't work out how to flip this picture around. I love it. I found it at Bastia airport, and what an idea! I need to go up/down, or just I need some general entertainment, and I need the toilet. Result: combine them! Fantastic.
Malheureusement they actually meant that you had to use the lift to get to the toilets, how dull.










Hmm, Athens. Industrial city of grime. Even on the brightest and 'clearest' day there was a layer of smog hanging around.








Oh, the relief when we found this sign. We'd been searching all day and no car park would take him, or they charged us a fortune.















Hmm, Athena! Once we had finally been allowed into the Acropolis and the Greeks decided that striking gets the French nowhere and would probably not get them very far either.








Our balcony, with our beautiful potted nettle.


























The kites in the sky on Clean Monday. These are the ones that were too far away to be of immediate danger!!











Me trying to ruin Martin's photo of Hadrian's Arch, but in my opinion, greatly improving it.











Pyromaniac Noddy attempts to look as good as me.

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