Athens is always Athens and Greece is always Greece

I just arrived from my summer holidays in Greece. Is the fourth time that I go to Greece and it is always a pleasure to be there. I use to say if I get confused about my holiday’s destiny or fed up with the world, I go to Greece. This time Athens had an additional motivation – the New Acropolis Museum. It only opened 1 year ago and it is a beautifully designed elegant building that allows you to look out at the Acropolis while seeing it. When the site was excavated, builders found ruins of Roman baths (be hard not to in Athens) so the built the museum up on large concrete pillars. Parts of these are visible from the forecourt which has open views of the site as well as being partly paved in glass. It is absolutely superb design and engineering. After the queue we go inside, we find more glass floors to show the ruins underneath. Each floor is dedicated to a separate temple from the Acropolis, with all the treasures in a "walk through" style, rather than just along a wall. The models of the Acropolis at various times in history are wonderful. The top floor, with a stunning view of the Parthenon itself is dedicated to that temple, and the remaining marble frieze takes pride of place in the middle, with pieces placed as they would have been on the original. Unfortunately there are many gaps which could, should be filled by the return of the pieces stolen by Elgin and still kept in the British Museum. There is no longer any need for Britain to keep them. This new museum will house them properly, safely, and much more appropriately. I found The Sanctuaries Exhibit, Caryatids and Friezes the most beautiful. It's a brilliant place. Then we have Athens life, hot nights, and people and of obviously…food: moussaka, shish kebabs in pita bread, souvlaki, tzatziki, hummmm. In the next days, some photos of my trip to Greece, without colors, because sometime life is just BLACK or WHITE.