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Pan Giannakis
A long-winded post with no artistic merits but I thought it is Greece-related, some might find it interesting. I usually don't take a camera with me when I visit Greece so these pictures are snapshots taken with my phone.
I had this idea to take the kids to the places I grew up – I am not sure they are at the age to appreciate it so it really felt like a chore for them. I took them to see my junior high school – I had my best school times here by far, I still have some of the friends I made during that period. The playground area used to feel so massive back then, now it feels tiny.
A few minutes walk from there is this park where they used to take us for school trips – didn't cost them much and didn't have to walk far either. Of course back in the 80s/90s this looked quite different – it was just a massive field with some old train wagons abandoned there. We used to climb them and play amongst broken glasses - health and safety was not a priority back then but we somehow made it in one piece.
I also had the idea to take the kids for a trip to the city centre – I wanted them to see where I used to hang around in the 90's. Took them to my favourite photography shops – you would find me penniless looking at the shop windows here as a teenager.
This is the place I bought my Praktica BMS – closed down a long time ago. Looks like they ended up selling mobile phones at some point to survive. I could still see the empty shelves on the wall. It was such a tiny shop.
I still have the receipt from that buy - Christmas 1993.
This is another photography shop that actually has survived the crisis and is doing rather well. It was a bit more of a uptown ranking shop with expensive Nikons back in the 90's - way out of my badget but it was the place to see those cameras from close for the first time. He also developed some of my slides and did a couple of Cibachrome prints.
My daughter wanted to see “something ancient” she said so we visited the metro station in Syndagma Square where there is this ancient tomb. Of course we walked around the Acropolis too.
I also took her to the place where me and my friends used to spend our Saturday mornings drinking coffees in Plaka area – maybe @DownUnder will recognise some of these places. This is our table behind my daughter – I tried to arrange to meet them again but nowadays people have families and making spontaneous decisions like this is out of the question.
Grafting is becoming so popular in the street where I used to live. Now, most of the trees produce two different fruits, like this tree producing oranges and lemons at the same time.
Talking about lemons, this is in my garden, we end up having so many that we give away to the neighbourhood.
That's it folks – I am leaving you with my favourite fast food – souvlaki.
I hope you enjoyed it.
I had this idea to take the kids to the places I grew up – I am not sure they are at the age to appreciate it so it really felt like a chore for them. I took them to see my junior high school – I had my best school times here by far, I still have some of the friends I made during that period. The playground area used to feel so massive back then, now it feels tiny.
A few minutes walk from there is this park where they used to take us for school trips – didn't cost them much and didn't have to walk far either. Of course back in the 80s/90s this looked quite different – it was just a massive field with some old train wagons abandoned there. We used to climb them and play amongst broken glasses - health and safety was not a priority back then but we somehow made it in one piece.
I also had the idea to take the kids for a trip to the city centre – I wanted them to see where I used to hang around in the 90's. Took them to my favourite photography shops – you would find me penniless looking at the shop windows here as a teenager.
This is the place I bought my Praktica BMS – closed down a long time ago. Looks like they ended up selling mobile phones at some point to survive. I could still see the empty shelves on the wall. It was such a tiny shop.
I still have the receipt from that buy - Christmas 1993.
This is another photography shop that actually has survived the crisis and is doing rather well. It was a bit more of a uptown ranking shop with expensive Nikons back in the 90's - way out of my badget but it was the place to see those cameras from close for the first time. He also developed some of my slides and did a couple of Cibachrome prints.
My daughter wanted to see “something ancient” she said so we visited the metro station in Syndagma Square where there is this ancient tomb. Of course we walked around the Acropolis too.
I also took her to the place where me and my friends used to spend our Saturday mornings drinking coffees in Plaka area – maybe @DownUnder will recognise some of these places. This is our table behind my daughter – I tried to arrange to meet them again but nowadays people have families and making spontaneous decisions like this is out of the question.
Grafting is becoming so popular in the street where I used to live. Now, most of the trees produce two different fruits, like this tree producing oranges and lemons at the same time.
Talking about lemons, this is in my garden, we end up having so many that we give away to the neighbourhood.
That's it folks – I am leaving you with my favourite fast food – souvlaki.
I hope you enjoyed it.
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