Slightly Wiser

In Athens, my friend Joel offered that I crash at his and his girlfriend Anna’s place. This was great. Fine company is always appreciated. As the weather was clear, we spent half the day walking around the hills which jut out of Athens. We could enjoy views of the concrete sprawl and of the Acropolis which seems incredibly incongruous in the midst of it.

But then we ended up sitting down to eat souvlaki in Plaka for lunch. Big mistake. The guy charged us 18 euros for 2 plates which consisted of a 2 souvlaki, a couple of fries and a few vegetables. ‘The prices are different if you sit down.’ After that, all the people driving motorcycles on the footpaths began to really piss me off.

Meeting up with Anna, we walked through the meat market and looked at mountains of severed sheep heads. Afterwards we made our way to the run down immigrant quarter – by far my favourite part of town. Finally, our moods lifted once we got home, made curry and had a Guns n’ Roses sing-along with a baffled Anna laughing at our admiration of Slash’s solos.