Let me show you around my neighbourhood

You saw me moving in my previous post, time to show around now.

I start my walk relatively early in the morning and I love those days that you can still see the moon up in the clear blue sky as a bright white dot:

Nice to see the local municipality using efficient bulbs but would be nicer to turn them off during daylight:

I mean, if you don't try to be efficient on days like these then when?

Greece is not like Turkey or Morocco but we still have way more stray cats than the European average hence I don't hesitate to meet some of them hanging out around the trash bins:

Another thing that is anything but rare around Greece is abandoned/unfinished buildings. Bankruptcy and legal issues are behind most of the cases. The sad thing is that many of them pollute your eyes while you try to enjoy coastal beauties with the following ones not being among the exceptions:

Let's leave them for the moment and have a look at something more beautiful:

Such a sweet bay isn't it? Located here in case you're interested.

Not sure who put that chair there but makes the whole scene kinda absurd:

There's nothing absurd about the sea view though, just pure sweetness in this quiet and warm Sunday morning:

Behind me the moon is still up:

In front of me is the stairway to sea heaven:

Here's the bay from another angle:

Some guys left their gear to dry in the sun:

Funny to see those run down changing rooms of the hotel behind:

The wall's painted white but that's all the care this thing has seen for... god knows how long. The rest of the hotel is still kinda working and it's a well known antique thing of the area so I take a few steps into it to get a closer look:

There's lots of trash around the hotel but this one is too cute to be ignored:

Time to leave the absurd hotel area and I take my last images of it just to get an idea of the WTF of that thing which makes you feel unsure whether it's still operational or not :

Quite the opposite is a fancy mansion right beside it:

As I leave it back the absurdity still goes on since the sign of the hotel is AFTER the road that leads to it 🤣

9:12 am, lights are still on:

Time to have a closer look at the contemporary ruins that I mentioned before:

Absurdity kicks in again as it seems that the ground floor of one of them was lived for some time and they also took care to put rails on the stairway of this (other than that) completely bare building:

Since it's all Greek to you that sign you saw on the top floor reads "for sale" but judging from its age not many showed interest about this property which today is where these cats hangout:

I love how they simultaneously turn their heads when I call them:

Looking at these things in pictures is hard to imagine their view:

However, in real life you are really tempted to step in and see it for yourself:

Even better without those temporary wood frames (indicating at which stage the construction was seized):

The moon is still up,

as I continue exploring.

Are you attracted by bare bush/tree roots? I definitely am but I think it's not only my MSc in Agricultural Engineering to blame:

I'm still walking over Hellenic soil which means there's no shortage of graffiti at all hence the following 3 year old one:

And yes, we do play basketball as well here but have you ever tried to do so in a place like this?

I have no idea what used to be around there or if the local municipality just decided to build it and leave it but quite odd in any case. You just sneak into it via this opening,

And then you're free to be an Antetokounbo in the woods:

9:34 am, moon is still up in the clear blue sky and I love both:

I gotta admit I had a brief look at satellite images of the area before setting off to see which might be the points of interest around. To my surprise I saw what clearly looked like a vessel dumped in the woods so I looked it up to remove the WTF pending in my mind.

Apparently, it is a massive Chris Craft!

Once an eye catcher in the sea, now it's got more dry stories to tell than wet ones:

Yes, that white dot in front of it is the moon - how cute! But the boat is not that bad either, at least during its prime:

I told you it's a Chris Craft but if your middle name is Thomas then have a look at the tag:

Here's another tag but other than "COMMANDER" I didn't manage to read much:

(Maritime experts are more than welcome to enlighten me and my larger than life audience - thanks in advance)

It feels like a Chinese torture to cage a vessel like this in front of a view like this for (probably) ever:

But I have more to see and it's time to kiss it goodbye - see you!

The view is anything but a torture for me and I feel like one pair of eyes is not enough on this beyond warm and sweet mid November Sunday:

Behind me though I spot the ruins of an abandoned house up in the hill:

Since it gives me its middle finger with this tall chimney I feel obliged to check it out and start hiking up which makes the view even better:

I am getting closer to that thing while the moon (white dot on the left) is still up @10:am:

While this thing is far from charming at its current state it makes perfect contrast with the superb view:

As usual vegetation takes over where people retreat from:

This balcony used to have this unique view but today it's not even safe enough to walk:

The higher I go the more I enjoy the view:

Not necessarily this view though:

But this one is a dream:

I guess this concrete thing used to be the water tank of the house:

Obviously as you can see it's also a top view point allowing you to enjoy all this beauty (yes, the boat on the right is the one I already visited) so at this point I think you might wanna watch a video don't ya?

The top of this hill also allows full view to the mess of that house:

The water tank unsurprisingly didn't miss the graffiti trend:

Same as the (half) wood house didn't skip the wear of time:

I can't be more thankful, grateful, you name it, to this extraordinary superb weather that simply can't get any better in the middle of November. In case you doubt have a look:

Did you spot that little blue thing built in the woods? Let's get closer:

As Greek as it gets: A blue white church with sea view. FYI, it's located here dedicated to Life Giving Spring.

With a view like this and available benches for the ones who'd like to admire it you might want to revise your atheism:

I always stop to the sight of those tiny beauties:

But I also stop to this odd view:

What's odd about this is that these are old cement poles we used to place as barriers on the side of our national roads. This means that the road used to follow a different route many decades a go - we live and learn. Here's the same spot from another angle with the stones saying a lot about the age of this deviation:

Contemporary ruins are not over and here's my next find:

The view is so nice that you might be tempted to play the homeless and stay there for a night or two. The state of building itself is definitely not as tempting though:

It looks as it was never finished. Recently someone tried to BBQ in front of it:

Vegetation covers parts of its shame:

Here's its East side:

The moon is still up though it's past 10:00 am:

The view remains astonishing regardless the moon's phase:

Who knows how many scenic picnics has this table offered before it downgraded to this state today:

Still enjoys better view than most IKEA tables do though. I am no IKEA table so I move on to fill my eyes with more of this beauty:

Today this stairway still leads to heaven,

But the initial plan to connect the house you saw before didn't really work:

At this point I'll let the pictures do the talking so you can see what the residents of that property would enjoy if the project had gone as planned:

Not too bad eh? The local municipality has taken care of the romantic visitors:

From this point you can see the other abandoned house that I visited earlier:

In front of me there's another deserted scene:

I love how the wood turns white and smooth after the sun/sea treatment:

As if there should be a counterweight for all the previous beauty, on my way back I see this... well, you name it:

Fortunately there's no organic waste in it so at least it's not stinky. And since my nose skipped the torture a fig tree offered me its unique scent adding a summer touch to the whole experience on top of the summerish weather:

I got back home with lots of images to digest, hope you like them as much as I did.

See you on the next one!