Good-bye Athens

Athens has a great tram system, but we found the people on them very uncommunicative. On our ride to the Laundromat, we were stuffed onto a tram with a lot of other people while we held our huge laundry bags. We were standing, and people just kept squashing in. I got the giggles and couldn't stop. The people were tit-to-ass packed in and totally ignoring each other. I started saying "I have to get off now" - "It's been a pleasure knowing you all so intimately", "I haven't hugged some of my best friends as much as I have hugged you bunch". But they all kept their stony faces.
On every street corner there is a kiosk, a man sitting in a tiny hut, with goods dripping off of it. They sell a lot of pornography, and it is all on display. There are also a lot of porno movie houses around Omonia square where our hotel is. One has a poster of a nude woman with a swan?? There are also quite a lot of furriers, with their skins hanging our on show. We have grown to love our hotel and regard it as home despite the grim. Another interesting thing is that Athens in full of heavy traffic, so the cars that are allowed to enter the city are alternated according to their licence plate number. So if your number ends in a 3 you get to come to town by car only on a Thursday, for example.
I love the statue in the middle of the square, it is made of flat pieces of glass, and looks to me like a man being wind swept, but is meant to be a speeding glass man . It looks even better in the snow.
Photo by Tammy's travels