A Beautiful Saturday Afternoon

marianna was in town from cambridge for a wedding this week.  She stopped in as eleftheria and i woke up and stayed for a morning coffee.

humans have a very strange relationship with pigeons.  we mock them and curse them, yet we set up houses for them, raise and train them, and in china some are worth 100's of 1000's of dollars.  i never knew it was a thing in greece until earlier this year when i saw them being flown in our neighbourhood.  we saw them yesterday too.  really all i can think about is Ghost Dog.

up in ano poli, where we enjoy walking, the old city wall has been morphed into housing.  some of the houses are very old, some are newer, some are little more than corrugated iron shacks and others are well established.

 this is a beautiful church that we found on our walk.  the church of agias (saint) aikaterini is a unesco world heritage site from the 13th century, not too bad.

 the afternoon was absolutely wonderful

ano poli is one of our favorite places, the old is mixed with the new, the poor is mixed with the wealthy and the fashion is mixed with the function.

 this is a section of the wall much like the 3rd picture.  the mayor of this district is working hard to clear away the old housing and to make the wall into a historic site.  you can see one of the remaining houses in this section towards the upper right end of the wall.

 the evening was beautiful also

 the wall has become a very organic (i know that it is all man made) part of the city.

this is a door in the wall to a house on the other side.  on the door is a "beware of dog" sticker.  can you spot the beast at the top of the wall?

what a wonderful afternoon and evening.  we were out for about 3 hours walking.  fall is the best time of year no matter where you are.