Sunday, August 25, 2013

Vouliagmeni by night...

Summer is almost over...even in Greece. People are back from their holidays, kids are starting school soon. So you can hardly find a place to have a coffee in Athens on Sunday evening. Furthermore you need loads of luck to find a parking space. But there's one magic place that you can always count on - Vouliagmeni. Living its own rhythm, breathing the fresh sea breeze, making the temperature bearable and the walk extremely enjoyable. Walking along the coast, starting from Astir Palace Vouliagmeni, passing closed at this hour Okeanida Restaurant and beautiful beach underneath it, and reaching countless coffee shops, bars and restaurants in the end of the bay. You cannot stop thinking of lives that people living there are experiencing, of their daily routine. It's so glamorous and breathtaking that you catch yourself spying on them, lounging on their enormous balconies, sipping on their margeritas and having this extraordinary view for themselves.....


Thursday, August 15, 2013

If not a beach...

Today, instead of heading down to the beach, decided to take advantage of free entrance to the museums due to the National Holiday. And for the first time visited very lovely Numismatic Museum, situated at Panepistimiou Street, just off the Syntagma Square. Museum's building is a former house of Heinrich Schliemann, an archeologist, who was working on excavations of Troy. 
According to the author of 'Archeology and Arts' Touratsoglou the collection of the museum contains 600,000 objects, mainly coins, but also medals, standard masses, dies and stamps from the 14th century BC up to modern times. Highly recommended, especially on the hot day like today, since the whole building is very nicely air-conditioned:)