EY460 pickup

Melbourne airport check

things to do on your last night in Athens

hang out in Taverna Psiri

Nick via email: Sitting outside under a tree with Tom eating Greek meatballs and Kasia drinking Alfa beer

It's the little things that charm you...

 string ...

 scissor graffiti outside dressmakers
 sea sponges

spice shop
 is this cinnamon?

buying wine by the kilo

both in their element: nick in a market (looking not cooking), tom on his scooter

general scooting on the paved streets

it's all about family

Nick, Leon and Mary

Kasia, email to Mama/Ela/Babcia:
Leon is a really cheeky crazy monkey! Nick even has a little scratch on his cheek from a wrestling match with all the kids last night at Kimon and Irene's house. Everyone is really lovely.
Greece is like Leon

Polly & Mary

Nick, Tom and a bendy frappe glass

just around the corner in Athens...

Railway station square near our hotel

churches ...

Kasia, via email:
There are even more [churches] in Athens!
Under skyscrapers, next to stations, apartment blocks, railways - like pubs in ancient Melbourne. Every block seems to have one!























Parthenon (another church!) sneaking into view

history ... archaeological digs

ancient cemetery

and poet sandal-makers



other cool places to hang out ...

cats ... it's what they do

Beach cat stalking sea gulls at the beach taverna on Aegina 

street life, Athens

Nick & Tom, giant magnolia tree and Hadrian's Arch just glimpsed at end of the street‏

a handy map of athens, with historical sites highlighted Hadrian's Arch = "A"
(click here to link to a bigger map)

ladies ordering ouzo - as you do

Aegina

sunglasses on the ferry to Aegina...

temple at Aegina

view from Mary's apartment on Aegina

Polly & Mary on the island

 

 evening view of the pier at Aegina before coming back to Athens

ferry leaving for the trip back to Athens

where is Aegina?

it's an island close to Athens, here's a picture

email from Kasia,

We sailed (ferry) to Aegina, just an hour off Athens, yesterday and the first page of a little promo booklet about the island that Mary gave us described the journey as

An hour on deck with a cup of coffee and time to smoke two cigarettes...

idea for future Greek temple...?

via fffound



things to do in Athens on a Sunday

 

Who is this with [a] Greek obwaszanki?‏

No doubt related to this person wearing obwaszanki necklace‏

What to do if you happen to be at the cafe of the archaeological museum: Baclava and nescafe frappe

after the museum!

meanwhile, back in melbourne

lego 101

Australia's only Licenced LEGO Professional, Ryan McNaught, has built a reproduction of the 101 building in LEGO in the foyer of 101 Collins Street

(from 24th September 2011 until Saturday, 8th October 2011)

more photos

and from 30 September until February next year, the NGV Ian Potter Gallery will be hosting Tjukurrtjanu - Origins of Western Desert Art, the Papunya artists

Water Dreaming at Kalipinypa 1971

Nosepeg Tjupurrula Pintupi c.1915-90, Three ceremonial poles 1971