Weekend, beach

Waiting for move to out new house, which is to occur tomorrow, we went to see northern side of Attica peninsula, near the Marathon, to try if Aegean sea is warmer than our Adriatic.
It is :-)

Weather was not ideal, but we could not resist:

We were not the only ones to swim (as we'd be in Croatia), there were also some locals swimming. Water is about 22 cels or so, but it was a windy, cloudy day, so outside of water it was quite fresh.

The beach is very nice, and it is referred to as one of the Athens beaches (it is 35 km from the University campus), I think in summer it is full. Now it was ours :-)

Background of the beach was nice

but mostly the coastal line was not so pleasant, as it was not possible to reach the coast. It seems here it is possible to own the beach behind the house, as mostly there was no way to the beach in the populated areas, ugly fences and walls separated the beach from the road. Different than in Croatia-good to learn that the rule imposed in Croatia, that the beach is a public space, is not a stupid one. One plus for Croatian government(s).

Tomorrow we move to our new house. Here I document our temporary locum just below the telescope in the Physics building:

or, rather, atop the Physics building here:

Interesting transparent hanged on the Physics building these days, funny to see such things here in Europe. These students could (but not "should") TRY some beauties of life under communist government, as we did in (rahmetli) Yugoslavia and Poland, I think then they'd be more careful with iconography: