This evening we were finishing our supper (Alex, Chuck, Patrick - Charlotte having gone to bed already) when we heard the sound of accordion music from the street. A couple of guys, one playing, one singing, were strolling around the square hoping for change from the people sitting in the cafe and the restaurant. Very nice, quiet songs, I was tempted to toss them a coin or two, but from the fifth floor, I probably would have maimed them.


In Plaka and Monastiraki, there are still some organ grinders. Alex and Patrick talked to one of these old guys - it turned out he had lived for many years in Montana. These instruments feature prominently in movies of the 30s(?), 40s(?), which they still play on TV. The organs themselves are decorated with scenes from those very movies