Family life in Athens
Our first family sightseeing Athens. Metro is 10 minutes walk from our house, and in half hour we're in the center, Sintagma or Monastiraki square. VERY convenient, considering that car drive could take hour(s)! Driving through Athens is repeat of the Old Greek battles, every meter done is a small victory. MOSTLY drivers obey rules, but streets are narrow and irregular, and cars parked virtually everywhere...also, there is southern tendency to use the sound signal if you are (in opinion of the driver behind you) disturbing the traffic. In addition to it, Athens streets are paranoically complicated web, very often one-way. A nightmare!
The city is OLD. Very old. Means, when your city, in whichever you are, was not more than pasture for goats of some unknown people (your own nation did not define yet then, most probably), this city was already old. Do not forget that Acropolis was protected as a City of Gods 500 years B.C.!
Nice streets below Acropolis:
Some of the views are Bizantine, here Wolf mountain:
and some are Roman, they came muuuuch later:
Icons are still omnipresent:
The city is OLD. Very old. Means, when your city, in whichever you are, was not more than pasture for goats of some unknown people (your own nation did not define yet then, most probably), this city was already old. Do not forget that Acropolis was protected as a City of Gods 500 years B.C.!
Nice streets below Acropolis:
Some of the views are Bizantine, here Wolf mountain:
and some are Roman, they came muuuuch later:
Icons are still omnipresent:
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