From a Medieval Tower to an Ancient mineral workshop

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:

The pros and cons of moving

It's been a while since my last post but the title is a spoiler of why. Now that begs the question - my absence is among the pros or cons? 😄

So, here's my fully loaded bike ready to transfer some of my stuff to my new place:

(One more) Birthday on the road

The title of this post used to be an unthinkable case before I started travelling intensively (mostly on 2 wheels) but for the last decade (plus) it has been rather a normality for me, unless weather sucks big time making it time to stay home. Well, "home" has also become relative as the saddle of my bike frequently feels more like home than my official one but that's another story (and another post maybe).

There couldn't be a longer middle finger to the energy war we all experience than this beyond superb weather that we still have here over Hellenic soil even in the beginning of November, embarrassing the summer days. Simply couldn't get any better under this bright was sunshine so I'm leaving the big city named Athens behind and head West.

West of Athens there's lots of industrial/dodgy areas so I'll spare you that part of the route but as the traffic drops after Mandra I start enjoying the good tarmac and the sweet bends on the E962:

Βοτανικός - Ελληνικό ένας κορμοράνος δρόμος.

Αν θέλετε να βάλετε δύσκολα σε ένα δημοσιογράφο πείτε του να σας βρει μια επένδυση στην Ελλάδα που δε βρήκε απέναντί της την Αριστερά ή την KGB/FSB/MYT ή όλους μαζί.

Nature does it better

Τα καλώδια των τηλεοπτικών κεραιών, εκτός από αηδιαστικά, στα μάτια μου πάντα φαίνονταν σαν ομφάλιος λώρος με τη σαχλαμάρα. Και μπορεί στο παρελθόν ελλείψει εναλλακτικών να υπήρχαν δικαιολογίες για αυτό το ελεεινό δάσος των κεραιών που μετέτρεψε τις ταράτσες των κτιρίων σε οπτικό βασανιστήριο αλλά σήμερα είναι ακόμη περισσότερο αδικαιολόγητο αυτό το χάλι.

Έρχεται όμως η φύση και σου λέει σε άπταιστα Ελληνικά "hold my beer":

Απλές σκέψεις

Σε χτεσινό δημοσίευμα σχετικά με τη συμμορία της Πολυτεχνειούπολης αναφέρονται μεταξύ άλλων τα εξής:

The ancient sites of Athens and their 4 legged fauna (part 4 - final)

It already took 3 parts to cover 3/4 of my walk around the historic center of Athens - betcha you can write books about those ancient sites if you wanna go into details. Speaking of books, fancy a visit to a Roman library?

Let's go:

The ancient sites of Athens and their 4 legged fauna (part 3)

Takes many parts to cover only part of a casual walk around Athenian antiquities - if nothing else we the citizens of this important city are very lucky. Walking down the pedestrian (and most commercial) street Ermou brings me outside the ancient cemetery of Athens named Kerameikos:

The ancient sites of Athens and their 4 legged fauna (part 2)

Continuing my walk in the Ancient Agora of Athens from part 1, here's where I have the luck to spend my time at: