Greece

Thus far I have only written about my living in Ho Chi Minh City and nothing yet about traveling abroad.  My time in Greece was very short only two days and one night but they were very memorable. As the days went during this time we blew in at dawn and blew out blew out by dusk but this city we stayed the night. I had an okay tour in the morning and an okay but the same tour in the afternoon but they were named differently. This made me mad that the second tour was more costly and was the exact same thing as the first but the only difference was that we were able to walk up the hill to the Parthenon. Yes the tickets were almost twice as much but the entry fee to the Parthenon area was only 12€. Up on the top of the hill of the Parthenon was a spectacular sight of the city. Every direction North, South, East and West the city stretched for what seems like miles and miles. They say that Mt. Olympia was 43 Km way and I bet you on that day you could see that far and even further. This day I only took a few panoramic photographs. The following morning I had yet another tour that was named something different and was about the same price as the second and as it turned out that it too was the same exact tour as the second but this time I was with a friend so it made it a little better time spent. This time I did a few more panoramic pictures of the Parthenon. One panoramic is below. The picture is a composite of 12 photographs.

Greece in general was a great country to visit and the outlying areas have been having troubles since the collapse of the local and countries government. The streets inside the major cities had vandalism that was done to the buildings such as spray paintings and even set fire to a few of the local buildings. Outside the cities you saw less spray paint vandalism but the local trash had not been picked up in over a year and half. They said that the children and most of the families recycled what they could like paper and tilled it back into the homemade composting that each house had been making to further grow vegetables and olive trees. There would be bags of trash taken to one general area that use to be the areas trash pickup and you would see plastic bags of garbage. Other than the trash these people lived no differently than normal country fokes from the states. They used what they had and made the best of the situation that they were dealt. The comment that was made if someone could figure out how to use the massive amounts of refuge and do the collecting the local people would even chip in and pay for the pickup of the refuge. My hunches believe that if the plastics could be broken down to smaller pieces then they could be recycled into cloth threads or even reused for melting down to be remolded into new plastics chairs or even plastic cups.