This is a picture of the garden of the American School of Classical Studies where Chuck works.





As I'm certain she will explain, Alex finally managed to figure out how to go swimming in Athens. She is now a member of this pool at the Olympic Pentathelon complex in Goudi


Another relic of last summer's Olympics is this advertisement for a Jazz concert. The venue was in Messalongiou Square, which is where our apartment is. We live just above the "Sq" in square, on the top floor.



If all goes as planned (Hah!), our container is being sprung from the customs pound in Piraeus today (yes it happened!), and the stuff deliverd to the new apartment tomorrow (Yes, we'll be ther bright and early!). Given narrow streets, small staircases and elevators, standard procedure for moving stuff into upper floors is to use an outside "elevator" - a sort of a large cherry-picker truck. We'll see how this works tomorrow.





This photo, courtesy of Google Earth, shows our new neighborhood called Pangrati [or Pagkrati]. Plateia Messalongiou is the square more or less in the center of the photo (which is oriented North-South). Our place is on the West side of the square (facing East), near the Northwest corner. The red-roofed building is a large public school just down the hill from us, and opposite the very nice Pangrati Park. Both the square and the Park are lovely Green places with playgrounds which the kids already like. [Getting them to leave is like pulling teeth sometimes!]. We have lots of shops around - including a supermarket and a Friday Farmer's Market. We have one of these outside the front door of the place we've been staying this summer.


We have been spending a pleasant hour or two each evening for the last couple of weeks at Dexameni Square in Kolonaki, where there is a playground as well as an open plateia where kids play football. It's a blast! Patrick and Charlotte have made fast friends with a variety of kids, and Alex and Chuck have made friends too - although no one wants to speak Greek with Alex - everyone wants to practice English!