pansies

Coffee in a friend's bancony.
With flowers and Sunday news.

green in the green

The coffee shop in the National Garden.
An oasis in the heart of the city.

wash line!

to bring a grey building into colours...

oasis in the city!

Block of flats and a palm tree.

flag-gαrland

Santa Barbara church in Ilion.

flower wreath

It is a tradition in Greece to make a wreath of flowers on May day.
We say "I caught May".
Then, hang it out of the house door or on the balcony.

The dried wreath will be thrown in one of the fires
that people light in the streets,
in June, on St John's day.

May Day

April fun

Ouzo, beer and a spring bouquet!

Elefsina III

Elefsina II

View from the top, just outide the entrance of the museum,
in Elefsina archaeological area.
On the other side of the sea is Salamina island.

Inside the museum.

Elefsina I

During a walk in the archaeological area of Elefsina,
a town just outside Athens (20' by car).

this is not an advertisment!

We have a saying in Greece, about living a life of leisure:
"to live a dog's life".
Here is a live example of it!

stoa tou vivliou

This is a gallery with bookshops only,
and a very peaceful coffee shop in the middle.
Warm, book-smelling and quiet.
Who would ask for more?

* stoa=gallery
* tou vivliou= consisting of book(shops)

national library

National Library of Greece

Just outside metro station Panepistimio,
in the center of the city.

last Friday

People going in and out of a church, in Plaka.
In the background, Acropolis.

odours!

ΤΗΑΤ is what everybody does (and eats) on Holy Sunday morning, in Greece.
Ιn the back yard, on the pavement, anywhere out of the house.
Families, neighbors, friends, all together.
Eat, drink, and listen to (loud) music.

green salads and beetroots

Every Saturday: street market in Ilion.

(Even on Holy Saturday:
Today, people buy bunches of green onions,
lettuces and lots of dill, to cook with lamb's haslets,
and make a soup called "magiritsa",
eaten only on this day of the year.)

easter days

Eggs dyed with onion peels, wine, and home made olive bread,
brought to our house by friends of the heart!

flying garden

who said you can not have a garden when you live in a flat?

saint anthoni

Metro station Agios (saint) Antonios, again.
Photo taken from upstairs this time.

facing north

Louise Riankour Street, Ampelokipoi.
Looking at the building "Apollon Tower".

facing south

Louise Riankour Street, Ampelokipoi.
Looking at Agios Dimitrios church.

while walking

a garden on the pavement...

all yellow

Telephone boxes in Athens are yellow.
Trolleys and taxi too!!!



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and a green broom!

Visiting friends: their nice balcony and plants.

sun after raining

Metro station Agios (saint) Antonios.
The sign shows the "exit".

green in the city

Photo taken from a coffee shop in Panormou street.
Housed in a still-not-become-building piece of land,
in one of the most full of traffic streets,
in the center of the city.

Such a joy to discover pictures from our childhood
in today!

yellow

There are many such, unexpected,
forgotten (to be build!) pieces of land, in Athens.
In spring, they flower as expected!

more oranges

More bitter-orange-trees, see? (do enlarge the photo!),

in both sides of the street.

This is a last summer's photo,
an ugly street, in Keramikos area, but
I wish I could make you feel how peaceful a (Saturday) morning it was, and
how light felt the air...

bitter oranges

There are a lot of bitter-orange-trees in Athens.
I still can not get enough of them!
I like them in blossom in the spring-odoring our night walks,
and the whole year round-like orange decorated christmas trees everywhere in the city!

a life of poetry

One girl in a garden.
Two women in a flower pot.
Three girls in my heart.
Without borders, without conditions.

* a poem by the surrealist poet Andreas Embirikos.
(I have chosen a small one, easy for me to translate!)

* a park in Ilion.

my nieces

On the 1st of March, every girl in Greece wears a bracelet called "march", made of a red and a white thread weaved together, in order not to get sun-tanned and to maintain a princess-white face!
Here you can see an advanced option: the tradition-combined-with-fashion!!

4:30 a.m.

The marbles on Syntagma square are being washed early every morning.

do not disturb

Sleeping peacefully in the heart of the city: Syntagma Square!

green pepers and zucchini

Every Saturday: street market in Ilion.

all day rain

Returning home in a rainy afternoon.

light blue

Strong sun, heavy shadows. This is spring.

spring in town

Many kinds of buildings, in Korai square.
On the right, a big new glass-covered building, besides an old yellow house with tiled roof, nicely restored.
On the left, a part of the archaeological museum, and a glass pyramid that covers the metro station Panepistimio.
On the back, Lycabettus hill, with St.George church on top.

Kitchen window glass

March brings sudden rains, succeeded by sunny sky.
You can not be sure whether to dry the clothes out or in the house...

March Theme Day: Glass.
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onions and garlic

Every Saturday: street market in Ilion.

early afternoon

Big blocks of flats (“laborers’s homes”) just outside the entrance of metro station Aghios Antonios, in Peristeri.
Winter. Early afternoon. Freezing cold.

and chocolate-stuffed cookies!

Coffee and desert, early on last Saturday morning, in a corner-coffee-shop just oposite the Agioi Theodoroi church. Perfect!

lay in the winter sun

An old Athenian house transformed into a restaurant, in Keramikos area, near the metro station.
This was taken on last, quiet Saturday morning, that's why the dog lays in the sun, IN the street! At nights, this area is usually crowded and noisy.