It’s a hot October and the second wave of tourists has hit the city of Athens. It’s all quite tiresome really. The hordes of tourists that invade during the summer months are all right, you get used to them. They can be amusing and distracting. It’s even sort of nice and different that when August comes around there are more foreigners than Greeks in the centre of the city. It makes you feel sort of cosmopolitan.
But when autumn comes and you find that the city is still inundated by groups of loud Americans in louder shirts, German OAPs with knobbly knees in shorts and backpackers with maps you feel it’s all got a bit too much. Holiday season is over! Isn’t it? Well it should be.
It isn’t as if Athens isn’t noisy and messy enough these days. What with municipal elections coming up, the teachers protesting, solidarity marches for Lebanon and Palestine and occasional strikes by the public transport and the major labour unions we are having a lovely month so far.
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