Impressions from Greece

Yvonne · #11 09-28-2006, 12:58 AM

cool pictures! i've been to a few greek places but never athens, may go one day!

ugly_queen_from_mars · #12 09-28-2006, 01:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim Bon Jovi

no probs. your pics have really piqued my interest and it turns out globespan run cheap flights from glasgow but im not necesarilly sure i'd go if there wasnt sme semblence of decent nightlife.

how expensive or inexpensive was it?

ive been to crete but i dont think cheap beer and vodka is a fair indication of the cost of living in greece as a whole.

any other european country i've visited is cheaper than greece - even switzerland. no, wait... bottles of water are cheaper here. :/
the nightlife is vivid if you're into clubbing and the such - i'm not so i couldn't recommend you any places.

acropolis of athens is being reconstructed. it has suffered some strong earthquakes, air pollution, acid rain, even bombings. i can see the parthenon from the city centre but haven't been there for many years.

captain crash did you go to The Mall? it's near the olympic stadium, my favourite place of the city (for shopping

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UKjovi · #13 09-28-2006, 10:20 AM

Yeah but its been under construstion for years .Great pics though. Would love to go see it all one day.

*ºÇåptäîn¤Çrä§hº* · #14 09-28-2006, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by ugly_queen_from_mars

any other european country i've visited is cheaper than greece - even switzerland. no, wait... bottles of water are cheaper here. :/

That was my impression as well. And cigarettes are quite cheap.

In Athens though, you do well with a Pita Gyros for 1.70 €. It's delicious.

Another thing, I couldn't believe how everybody threw their waste away, equal what garbage, equal what place. It's unbelievable.

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Originally Posted by ugly_queen_from_mars

captain crash did you go to The Mall? it's near the olympic stadium, my favourite place of the city (for shopping

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No, we didn't know about it. We went shopping in The Plaka and on Ermou Street between Syntagma and Monastiraki. Next time.

Plus, it was not the nicest weather that day and I just wanted to have a look at the stadium. So, we drove there, looked around and drove back...

ugly_queen_from_mars · #15 09-28-2006, 04:26 PM

the weather didn't help huh?
well, cigarettes cost around 3 euros so, yeah, they're cheaper (but that's not a good thing). gyros and souvlaki are cheap but you can't eat that thing all the time.
and garbage is not the only problem. i can make you a long list but that'd take me a lot of hours. did you notice the stray animals? most people and the state don't care about animals and that makes me mad.
on the other hand athens is a safe city and there are some beautiful places, especially in the suburbs.
btw i'd choose germany over greece anytime

*ºÇåptäîn¤Çrä§hº* · #16 09-28-2006, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by ugly_queen_from_mars

gyros and souvlaki are cheap but you can't eat that thing all the time.

It was three days and I could.

Hmmmmmmmmmm.

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Originally Posted by ugly_queen_from_mars

did you notice the stray animals? most people and the state don't care about animals and that makes me mad.

Yes, of course. Do they really belong to nobody??? Some of them looked quite nice.

ugly_queen_from_mars · #17 09-28-2006, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by *ºÇåptäîn¤Çrä§hº*

Yes, of course. Do they really belong to nobody??? Some of them looked quite nice.

insane, isn't it?

spunkywho · #18 09-28-2006, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by ugly_queen_from_mars

did you notice the stray animals? most people and the state don't care about animals and that makes me mad.

I cannot believe that there has nothing (or pretty much) nothing been done in eons. I spent a night in Athens on a layover some 17 years ago and the strays were out of control. We ate dinner at a restaurant outside and there were hordes of cats begging for food - one of them was particularly pitiful and had only one eye

It's haunted me since.

My sister just got back from a trip to Greece and she said the homeless dog situation is absurd. They had different dogs follow them for days. So so sad!

There have been efforts to transport some of them to other countries (while in Germany, there was an article in the paper about some lady paying for the trip for a stray dog if somebody was willing to adopt it) which of course brings up an entire new discussion. I don't think there is a country that doesn't already have too many animals and thus, importing them from other countries makes their problem even worse.

Why exactly is there no spay/neuter policy to start with? Who dumps those animals and why aren't they euthanized or rehabilitated?

There was some outrage in the animal rescue community during the olympics when Athens was taking initiative to reduce their stray population ..... whatever happened with that?

Thierry · #19 09-28-2006, 05:47 PM

That looks very nice, so very different to Holland.

ugly_queen_from_mars · #20 09-29-2006, 02:12 AM

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Originally Posted by spunkywho

I cannot believe that there has nothing (or pretty much) nothing been done in eons. I spent a night in Athens on a layover some 17 years ago and the strays were out of control. We ate dinner at a restaurant outside and there were hordes of cats begging for food - one of them was particularly pitiful and had only one eye

It's haunted me since.

My sister just got back from a trip to Greece and she said the homeless dog situation is absurd. They had different dogs follow them for days. So so sad!

There have been efforts to transport some of them to other countries (while in Germany, there was an article in the paper about some lady paying for the trip for a stray dog if somebody was willing to adopt it) which of course brings up an entire new discussion. I don't think there is a country that doesn't already have too many animals and thus, importing them from other countries makes their problem even worse.

Why exactly is there no spay/neuter policy to start with? Who dumps those animals and why aren't they euthanized or rehabilitated?

There was some outrage in the animal rescue community during the olympics when Athens was taking initiative to reduce their stray population ..... whatever happened with that?

i don't know what happened. it seems like an issue nobody wants/ cares to touch. i'm not for euthanasia, i think they should start a shelter/ sterilisation programme. during the olympics they picked up stray animals from the streets. now they're back and most of them wear identification tags. anywhere in greece you can see stray animals - thousands of them. it makes me so angry and sad. but in a society where most people don't care about animals why should the state care?

Impressions from Greece

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