What I've been up to with photos.
Some more picspamage!
On Monday we went down to lower Glyfada and took the tram along the seafront Pireus way.
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This is the church in the big square near the seafront.
This is a photo from the marina in Alimos.
We got of in Flisvos and walked along the seafront to Flisvos marina:
It was an amazingly windy day with loads of waves.
And here is me taking photos of myself in a window reflection.
In the last you can see my parents too.
Tuesday I went with some friends and cleaned up my friend's house in Fylis street for our little New Year's Eve get together. The place is rather decrepit. The block is from the early sixties I would say, a very cheap construction due to location and it has never been renovated. It still has the original kitchen and bathroom. I would definitely rip up the kitchen. But in a location like that you will never be able to get much rent from it anyway.
The flat generally is warm and yesterday we discovered why as we froze. The flat is what we call in Greece a "raised ground floor flat", as in it is about a bit over a metre higher than street level. Under these sort of flats often there other flats, or shops, that we call "semi-basements", as in it the roof is about a metre above street level and the floor is about two metres bellow street level.
As I said yesterday, Fylis street has been a well-known red light district since the sixties if not earlier, which oddly enough makes it one of the safest streets in the area, because the pimps police it keeping criminals out so as not to scare away their clients. Anyway, the semi-basement space under my friends house is a brothel, complete with red door and walls and lights. Oddly enough he says they must have good sound-proofing because he doesn't really hear anything. And obviously they keep the space very well heated, which gives him a sort of free underfloor heating, making his house surprisingly warm for a place without heating. The people in the block can't afford to buy petrol for the central heating so the whole block hasn't had central heating in years.
Unfortunately New Year's Eve seems to be one of the days a year that brothels don't work because they were closed! And so was their heating! And we had a very frozen get together / laid back New Year's Eve party.
But come five or six in the morning they must have opened again because we started hearing loads of revving motorbikes and noisy groups of guys and boys. About nine-ish we opened the blinds, crawled out from our blankets (we had fallen asleep with the music playing in various arrangements on the sofas and the bed some time after four-ish) made some tea and ate left overs for breakfast.
And I took some snaps of the neighbouring dilapidated neoclassical buildings as we left.
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On Monday we went down to lower Glyfada and took the tram along the seafront Pireus way.
[photos!]
This is the church in the big square near the seafront.
This is a photo from the marina in Alimos.
We got of in Flisvos and walked along the seafront to Flisvos marina:
It was an amazingly windy day with loads of waves.
And here is me taking photos of myself in a window reflection.
In the last you can see my parents too.
Tuesday I went with some friends and cleaned up my friend's house in Fylis street for our little New Year's Eve get together. The place is rather decrepit. The block is from the early sixties I would say, a very cheap construction due to location and it has never been renovated. It still has the original kitchen and bathroom. I would definitely rip up the kitchen. But in a location like that you will never be able to get much rent from it anyway.
The flat generally is warm and yesterday we discovered why as we froze. The flat is what we call in Greece a "raised ground floor flat", as in it is about a bit over a metre higher than street level. Under these sort of flats often there other flats, or shops, that we call "semi-basements", as in it the roof is about a metre above street level and the floor is about two metres bellow street level.
As I said yesterday, Fylis street has been a well-known red light district since the sixties if not earlier, which oddly enough makes it one of the safest streets in the area, because the pimps police it keeping criminals out so as not to scare away their clients. Anyway, the semi-basement space under my friends house is a brothel, complete with red door and walls and lights. Oddly enough he says they must have good sound-proofing because he doesn't really hear anything. And obviously they keep the space very well heated, which gives him a sort of free underfloor heating, making his house surprisingly warm for a place without heating. The people in the block can't afford to buy petrol for the central heating so the whole block hasn't had central heating in years.
Unfortunately New Year's Eve seems to be one of the days a year that brothels don't work because they were closed! And so was their heating! And we had a very frozen get together / laid back New Year's Eve party.
But come five or six in the morning they must have opened again because we started hearing loads of revving motorbikes and noisy groups of guys and boys. About nine-ish we opened the blinds, crawled out from our blankets (we had fallen asleep with the music playing in various arrangements on the sofas and the bed some time after four-ish) made some tea and ate left overs for breakfast.
And I took some snaps of the neighbouring dilapidated neoclassical buildings as we left.
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