View of east athens from lycabettus
bands and bars @ Athens Beer Festival
some tomb and palm tree in athens first cemetery
Delicious salad/cheese/potatoes/aubergine things at The Tricycle
New greeknotes! Greek independence day, the first cemetery of athens, and a piss up in a brewery at the 3rd annual beer festival. Also featuring aristotle's underwhelming lyceum, and once again, hotly clambering up lycabettus hill
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slightly more flattering photo of the taverna cat
This week, every car has been in athens has been consumed by a film of pollen
The best buildings in athens are all derelict and abandoned
half marathon route map, 21.1km top to bottom of athens
New greeknotes! A cold and grey week in athens, improved by taverna food, cats, dogs and I suppose, by a half marathon. Although my legs disagree.
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Nice to see english being used in signage "a handwritten sign on an ashtray outside a shop reading don't put your trash here dickhead"
a lovely Petralona house
black eyed beans, dolmakia, patatas and (excellent) aubergine balls
Merkouri square
New greeknotes! Laid up with a cold for most of the week, but a pleasant day in Petralona.
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laiki hooch
knackered old building in nea ionia. up the aek!
beach umbrellas on schenias beach
view over the east coast of attika from a mountain, showing the aegean
New greeknotes! Athens in spring. Three bars, two greek classes, and one trip to the beach.
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Goulandris gallery
olympic stadium
The local park in spring
fava, dakos, chips and fried cheese and nymfi beer
New greeknotes! A short and fairly routine but v pleasant week after the bank holiday. The highlight was a visit to the Goulandris Museum of Modern Art and drinking beers near the in Pangrati. Cold tho wtf
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Aegina from the ferry, mountainous
Fish, salami, cheese on breads
Aegina Sunset with a van load of nuns
Pretty beach at souvala
New greeknotes! My first Saronic island. A bank holiday spent on the island of Aegina. Temples, food, deserted beaches, mountains, friends, sunshine, and an impressive amount of pistachio produce.
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Kafeneio cat curled up on a chair
Greek meze plates inc bouyourdi and fava
An old man kafeneio
Orange trees!
New greeknotes! I failed to write my greeknotes last week, through a mix of idleness and not really doing much of note. So! Starting in-person Greek lessons, an extreme old man bar, mein running shoe kampf, and a load of food and drink.
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bangers and mash
Barrett bar, a chic little bar in Psyri
book bazaar athens
Kanellos (cinnamon), a lovely old dog
New greeknotes! Beers at Barrett bar with une amie française I'd not seen in a decade, bangers & mash, living on Plato's ancient estate, and dogsitting cinnamon.
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I am sorry for this boring photo, but LOOK at all the desk space below a 27" monitor
orange trees and blue skies
food at to kotetsi
emergency alert on my phone warning of severe weather
New greeknotes! Storms again! A fatal one it turned out. A slightly disappointing week of indoor pursuits, consumerism (monitor arm! new shoes!), kafenions in iraklio, petralona and pefki.
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5 dromoi pub in exarcheia with a book and a pint, bliss
The Choragic Monument of Lysicrates
Ancient Pillars of the Roman Agora
An anarchist banner outside reading 'SHAHZAT LUKMAN PRESENT: "AGAINST STATE-FASCISTS-BOSS" FEDERALIST ANARCHIST UNION'
Forgot to post my greeknotes! A cold but sunny week in athens featuring a protest in Petralona, the Benaki museum, traversing athens on foot through parts unknown, the acropolis and exarcheia. Also more souvlaki than is healthy.
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A kafenio exterior at night
dakos and a charcuterie board of sausages and cheese
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center roof park view over the sea
View of southern athens and sea
New greeknotes! Tourkovounia hill, the Athenian Riviera beaches, being social in Iraklio, Chalandri and Thiseio, plus eating cheese instead of running.
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Rock bar "The Ball and Chain" in Kypseli, Athens
Various cheese dishes at Bahanezos Taverna in Kerameikos, Athens
Street art of a cloud under a tag of "crap!"
Orange trees (again!) in sunny athens
New Greeknotes! A festive week in Athens, a lot of eating and drinking in a host of new bars and tavernas, plus a friend's baffling debut gig.
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stray cat in a restaurant
cycladean veg salad (covered in feta)
A leafy street in Filothei
I know little about wine, but I do know my favourite wine costs €4.50 and comes in a plastic bottle from my local liquor store and is called Malagousia
New Greeknotes! Staying local in Athens – sympathy broccoli, exploring filothei, plus exciting new greek words and foods
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syntagma sq fountains
a good dog
a house destroyed by a storm
oranges clogging a drain after a storm
New Greeknotes! Storm Byron batters Athens. Biblical rain, thunder, lightning and flooding. A week spent sheltering indoors reading. Also: the least-lamb-rotting district in Athens.
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storm adel storming
bookseller on the street
parthenon
greek trad band in a cafe
New Greeknotes! Winter arrives in Athens – Storm Adel thrashes the city, my first half-marathon in a while, a quintuple tsipouro, trad greek music, and a kafka-esque read.
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