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Coronavirus Diary: Life in Athens in Times of (Another) Crisis, Day 31
Editor’s note: The following has been taken from the blog The Many Faces of (New) Athens by Gigi Papoulias. Raised in the US in a Greek immigrant family, Gigi now lives in Athens. She first launched her blog in 2012 to chronicle Greece’s financial crisis, and has recently been writing about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on life in the Greek capital. She has been providing regular and clear-eyed…
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Coronavirus Diary: Life in Athens in Times of (Another) Crisis, Day 24
Editor’s note: The following has been taken from the blog The Many Faces of (New) Athens by Gigi Papoulias (the original entry is here). Raised in the US in a Greek immigrant family, Gigi now lives in Athens. She first launched her blog in 2012 to chronicle Greece’s financial crisis, and has recently been writing about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on life in the Greek capital. She has…
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Life-Giving Flowers
Among the bustle of shoppers up and down Ermou street, the small open-air flower stall owned by barba-Yiannis, a term of endearment used for older folk, is a pretty oasis where time seems to stand still.
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Eat after Midnight and Confess at Mavili Canteen
Yiannis makes sandwiches that feed your soul Should you find yourself enjoying a drink at one of the historic bars of Mavili Square, a well-known piazza near the American Embassy and Athens Concert Hall that provides relaxing weekday evenings and buzzing weekend nights, you may well end up partaking in the ritual of the obligatory sandwich from the local canteen. But let’s take things from the beginning. A fountain, old…
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Voulis Street’s Lady Luck
The most popular lottery vendor to pick your ticket. Athens has been the kind of city where a fortune could be waiting around the next corner since the 1920s – maybe in the form of a bundle of lottery tickets. There are your faithful punters who play on a weekly basis and your random passersby who may buy a single ticket, just like that, just in case. Georgia is one…
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