You might be interested to locate us in the context of central Athens. Follow this link:
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/google_map_Athens.htm
and enter the following in the search box just above the map:
Theagenous 11, 11634 Athens, Greece
Expand the map one click. If you go left from our house, you'll see a large park, the National Gardens. Just on the far side of that park are the parliament building and Syntagma square, where most of the serious demonstrations have occurred that you might have seen on the news over the last couple years. Continuing left, the next big green space is where the Acropolis is, and just above that are the ancient market and Roman market. Just above those is a hopping commercial area (around Monastiraki metro stop).
Yesterday, we accepted an invitation to play cards with a couple folks we met at a bridge club. The hostess lives just a couple blocks above the Acroplolis museum. Seemed like a pretty good stretch, but we decided to walk it. Turns out it was only about 30+ minutes, and we got to go through the National Gardens and past Hadrian's Arch on the way. We've seen before how easy (and quick) it is to get almost anywhere in Central Athens, even on foot, but are still often a bit surprised by it; i.e. Anyway, it was a mulilingual evening with tons of laughs. Dominique and Myrtle are basically French-speaking, but Myrtle speaks English very well, Dominique less well. It was a hoot to listen to Dominique's gears spinning in a mixture of French, English, and Greek. She fed us a wonderful quiche and other things, including "marrons glace's (chestnuts soaked in a syrup--lovely).
On the map "above" our apartment and a little to the left is Lykavetos (my transliteration) Hill, quite tall, which we hiked when we were here two years ago. Great views all around.
Not far above the Monsastiraki area is where some of Kathleen's colleagues work and just off Monastiraki is where we had to go to turn over docs for translation into Greek.
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/google_map_Athens.htm
and enter the following in the search box just above the map:
Theagenous 11, 11634 Athens, Greece
Expand the map one click. If you go left from our house, you'll see a large park, the National Gardens. Just on the far side of that park are the parliament building and Syntagma square, where most of the serious demonstrations have occurred that you might have seen on the news over the last couple years. Continuing left, the next big green space is where the Acropolis is, and just above that are the ancient market and Roman market. Just above those is a hopping commercial area (around Monastiraki metro stop).
Yesterday, we accepted an invitation to play cards with a couple folks we met at a bridge club. The hostess lives just a couple blocks above the Acroplolis museum. Seemed like a pretty good stretch, but we decided to walk it. Turns out it was only about 30+ minutes, and we got to go through the National Gardens and past Hadrian's Arch on the way. We've seen before how easy (and quick) it is to get almost anywhere in Central Athens, even on foot, but are still often a bit surprised by it; i.e. Anyway, it was a mulilingual evening with tons of laughs. Dominique and Myrtle are basically French-speaking, but Myrtle speaks English very well, Dominique less well. It was a hoot to listen to Dominique's gears spinning in a mixture of French, English, and Greek. She fed us a wonderful quiche and other things, including "marrons glace's (chestnuts soaked in a syrup--lovely).
On the map "above" our apartment and a little to the left is Lykavetos (my transliteration) Hill, quite tall, which we hiked when we were here two years ago. Great views all around.
Not far above the Monsastiraki area is where some of Kathleen's colleagues work and just off Monastiraki is where we had to go to turn over docs for translation into Greek.
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