Big city or island? Athens offers both

in #cycling3 years ago

The former is obvious to you and that's where I will start from but the latter follows and worth waiting.

Isn't this a lovely contemporary pair? Architecture at its best and Green at the same time:

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This next one is definitely less inspired hence I really like that street art done to it recently which beautified that grey indifference:

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The following one looks almost beyond repair regardless the attempts of street art on it:

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The following one shows how dry Athens is. This is one of its largest rivers which is dry as it looks even after a heavy winter with lots of snow:

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And...there you have it: A few steps later you leave all that urbanism behind and you can even swim if you like as this guy just did:

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That's one of the closest beach to the center of Athens right behind the SEF stadium:

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At the same area is where one of my favourite cafe/club used to be but today it's not that attractive anymore unless you're into urbex:

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I prefer to look at the sea instead:

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And the canal behind which offers a well protected docking area:

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Yes, we haven't skipped the lockers trend:

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This cat gets the best view point:

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I arrive at my favourite bay, Mikrolimano:

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If the previous images of the sea haven't offered you enough sense of an island then this will.
Be my guest:

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Nice view, myriads of restaurants, cafe, bars, clubs, many of them quite good actually, you can't go wrong there. Pity I can't stay all day around so time to cycle back and revisit that canal which reminds me of my days in Holland:

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Unlike that local dry river of Ilissos:

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Who wants a video? There you go:

Thanks for cycling with me, see you on the next one 🙂
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