A Saturday Morning |
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Saturday morning... A beautiful sunny day for Athens. After a small visit to my hair dresser in order to take care myself and the gas station in order to take care my Vrasidas (everybody know my special car) it was time to enjoy the nice weather and spend the day enjoying the sun and the beauty of my home town. I call Athens a monster city because is a huge city that hosts the most of the population of my country but it is also a beautiful place and you could easy come in touch with the mother nature and breath the sea air. |
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| I chose for my morning trip Vouliagmeni and its beach. It is a very beautiful place and it is very close to my home and my office. |
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| Vouliagmeni ( meaning "sunken" ) is an exclusive municipality 20 km south of Athens. Its population is about 4,000. It sits on the southwestern part of the Hymettus mountain range. Vouliagmeni is bisected by Athinas Avenue, which runs parallel to the seashore and continues southwards. The part east of the main road is rocky and the bulk of the town is built there. The western half is covered with pine trees, and consists of two peninsulas, Megalo and Mikro Kavouri ("Big Crab" and "Little Crab"). The two Kavouria feature beautiful and very popular sandy and pebble beaches in between rocky shores, several luxury hotels, two marinas, a nautical club (swimming, finswimming, waterpolo, skiing, sailing), a sports club (football, basketball, volleyball, tennis) and several luxurious seaside restaurants, taverns and cafeterias. The Kavouria are the most expensive pieces of housing real estate in Greece. Zoning is enforced strictly. The Vouliagmeni beaches are consistently awarded the coveted EU blue flags for environmental excellence. The triathlon of the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in this area. |
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| Walking close to the beach I had the opportunity to leave my eays resting at the endless blue of Saronic Golf and the Aegean Sea. A lot of people were at the sea... some windsurfing and some other sailing with small boats. A few helicopters were at the air... a lot of activity at the air and at the sea. At the beach a lot of people played inside and outside the water trying also to gain some sun tan. |
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| The sea water was so clean and so diaphanous that you could thought that the small boats were tossed at the air and not touched the sea at all. |
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| I enjoyed my freddo coffee at this outdoor cafeteria enjoying the warm sun and the sea smell. This photo is devoted to my friend Dorota from Ottawa who use to offer me every Sunday morning a cup of special coffee. Dorota thank you so much and I wait you here... in this place to offer you a Greek coffee. |
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During midday the small taverns with sea food were ready to accept the hungry people for the lunch. Fresh fish and a lot of good wine and ouzo close again to the sea is a must for a Greek. This photo is devoted to another 360 friend, a Greek who lives away from his country and he miss a lot moments like those. It is devoted to my friend Akis. I love this country and I find it so beautiful. I will never stop to write that I feel so lucky to be a Greek! |