We had no real destination in mind just wanting to get the lie of the land and sample the colour and taste of the local neighbourhood (also to check out an alternative hotel for our return to Athens later in the month!).
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| One of the trolley buses in Syntagma square |
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| In amongst the glitz and trolley buses were the remnants of Athens fortifications |
This building near our hotel looked so derelict yet there was a restaurant in its basement. Graffiti is everywhere in Athens particularly here in the Theatrou district
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| The old Parliament House |
We paused outside the gardens around the mansion of the Old Parliament to look at a statue and take a photo. I never got to take that photo because one if the grounds men came up to us to tell us about the statue - obviously someone special and indeed it was. It was the statue of General Theodoros Kolokotronis who the people revere as the father of their Independence after winning the 1821 Independence War against the occupying Ottomans. As we were standing there talking with this passionate Athenian, another man joined us, an expatriate Athenian academic trying to get permission to live back home in Athens. It was a quite special encounter with both men - the gardener and the academic.
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| The new Parliament House once the Palace |
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