Stella is on vacation in the cradle of Western civilization.
She traveled through tiny streets and the unlikely police blockades of the neighborhood of Exarchia to see a movie.
The movie theatre is open air in the middle of several apartment blocks. The fountains gurgle before the film starts and they play 70s music. It’s 11pm on a Sunday night. Aren’t the apartment people trying to sleep?
You can eat snacks and put your feet on the chair in front.
A feral friend came by for snacks.
Stella and her friend watched In Search of a Midnight Kiss, the summer indie movie hit in Athens. It’s very winning.
It was the perfect summer movie experience.
Do you read Greek? I have always found it to be a weird experience to watch an English-language movie with subtitles in a language I understand — my eye is drawn to the subtitles even though I don’t need them to get the dialog, it creates a sort of harmony between the two streams of language.
Stella,
You live the good life! Always a pleasure to hear of your travels.
p.s. I hope the cat scored some good munchies.
Stella,
I love how ridiculously unfabulous those photos are. I mean they seriously suck, but in an awesome way. The idea of somebody traveling to Greece, home of so many photogenic subjects, only to post a series of photos that include a cat with a giant can of Heineken and the front of nondescript building? Awesome and funny! It is a totally different kind of photo travelogue and I love it.
Yeah, the photos are seriously great. And a shout-out to your friend with his Heineken! Wish I could have been there.
I don’t read Greek, but I can sound out some of the letters and I really wanted that movie theater to be called “Panopticon.”
I love the photos – I can feel the warm air and the coldness of the beer; the contrast of the modern seats and film with the ancient Greek ruins; the mix of the familiar with the foreign. I wish I could be there, enjoying the waning days of summer.
That cat looks Egyptian– and Dave, I disagree. It says nANAOHNAIA. You know, like a backwards-capitalized word. :P
Sheesh, Dave. Embrace the whole foreignness of it all already.