Greatest Hits of the
day: Sleeping until 3:00pm -
Marcus & the white hot policewomen - Getting lost, meandering in the Plaka
- Mastering the Metro, no strike today! - Gay Gazi.
Rollin’
out late – Remember sleeping
late in your early 20’s and staying up all night with no problems? Well, at our
age they call it “Jet Lag.” Still with so much going on in the late evenings in
Athens, it felt fairly natural for a Zombie. We sort of knocked around the
nearby Plaka district (more about the Plaka later) getting lost and looking for
our brains. Athens is 10 hours ahead of Sacramento, CA which is almost directly
the opposite of our body clocks.
Boys
vs. Girls – Greek men are better
looking than the women. Our waiter, Marcus has Hollywood fancy looks-to-die-for
and he is not the only one. All of our waiters young and mature (over 40) were
stunning and their jeans actually fit. As for the women; well, the lady cops in
Athens are white-hot to put it mildly. I could not believe it, we saw at least
three. Imagine Selina in a tight blue uniform packing heat and running down the
street in pursuit of a bad guy. That’s it, jaw-dropping. I kept looking around
for the movie cameras – and this was only over dinner…
The
Beeb (BBC) was wrong – There was
supposed to be a transportation strike to protest the conditions in Greece
today. Gladly, it didn’t happen anytime we needed a train. After dinner we
chanced a trip from the Plaka area, just below the Acropolis hill, to the Gazi
an artzy district once the home of the city’s gas works…
Gazi
is Gay – That’s where you go to
get that rainbow feeling and catch some counter-culture arts. We followed the
advice of a gay Athens Internet site and found a rooftop terrace bar for girls.
It had comfortable white canvas sofas with lime green and white throw pillows,
very chic. Actually, we were the only girl couple there, but the crowd was very
friendly and I liked the DJ’s playlist a lot. I kept drinking beer and not
feeling a thing. Turns out the
“Mythos” I was drinking has an alcohol content of .5%. Near-beer, aptly
named Mythos, mythological beer. Never mind, staying sober in big foreign city
late at night is generally a good idea anyway, don’t ya think?
