Saturday 5th October 24
There will be a slight delay on the Greek diary… which I wrote long hand in a notebook. The whereabouts of which are currently unknown. It is somewhere in the house!
On aforementioned trip to Greece, we went to the Acropolis in Athens. Athens itself is a huge sprawling city, filled to the brim with cars and coffee shops. It is dilapidated and magnificent in equal measure. The streets dim where the buildings squash together. At ground level it’s hot and sticky, and a bit grubby, until the glorious moment we began the climb up to the Parthenon. It truly dominates the city. It doesn’t just poke up between the buildings, the rocky outcrop towers above, at least when you are close up. But as Athens has grown, has sprawled around its feet, it has become a little diminished, except you cannot truly use the word diminished when standing in front of the magnificence of the monument. Of course you have to share the experience with a trillion others, but even that didn’t spoil it. It’s the size of the building blocks, it’s the exquisite carving, (the museum is definitely worth a visit). It was the breeze and the size of the sky.
