PROLOGUE
The conference is this time in Athens. My colleague Quetzal praises the joys of congress tourism. I countered that, for a change, I'll keep my presentation on the last day and, therefore, as usual will not be able to relax only in extremis. Quetzal does not accept contradictory and anathematizing that often go up to the mark. I tonsillitis produces exactly the morning of departure.
If you add that Alitalia will fly, you will understand some discomfort on my part.
PARODI
CHORUS: Let go
, Marcello, and remove from your thinking
, Marcello, and remove from your thinking
concern
Every trip, you know, is very beautiful
If you faced it with relaxation.
now are great, you no longer have the nurse
trips did you do much more than a thousand
If Alitalia fails instantly
will always remain your sore throat.
FIRST EPISODE: THE JOURNEY (O KELEYTHOS)
This time travel with repayment contingent will have a ceiling for expenditure of food which, moreover, is corrected by a multiplication factor depending on the destination. Greece, in the opinion of those who drew up the table, it is much cheaper than Burkina Faso and Kamchatka, and then I'll eat leftovers MakDonalthos industry.
Air travel, despite concerns on the eve of a row away with great enthusiasm and precision timekeeping. The aircraft big deal: in one hour and forty following a route that represents the triumph of classicism, Rome-Athens. Just a shame that these one hundred minutes it administered to its six hundred other railway lines, roads, footpaths and mule tracks. Basically, a good hour from house party, nell'Ellade arrival late in the evening.
he arrived, accompanied by ElfaScura I experience a feeling comparable to what I had in Japan is the second time, in fact, that I am in a country marked by alphabetic symbols are not part of my everyday life. Oh, the kanji are actually derived from Mars, where the greek instead appears to be more within my reach. I did not study the classics, but between analysis and trigonometry praticaccia I got some of those esoteric symbols. From there to understand the semantics, of course, it goes on the road. At a minimum, that which separates the airport from Glyfada 4th, the X96 bus stop adjacent to the hotel that will host our nights Hellenic. If not that, once on the bus, we realize with horror that the bus does not make all the stops, but only those requests made by the pueblo (demos you tell?). How will we recognize our own? If we look around we see a plethora of Japanese, a quantity frankly irritating to a bus should be greek and, in our desires, provided an adequate and fair representation of Inglese-speaking people eager to help us get off at the right time. The panic rises as one of Japan, brandishing a map of Attica like a katana, it shows up a bus stop next to our lot, thus indicating with moves of tai chi that is the point where we are. He tries to locate the nearest native gum that you seem a bit 'of English, and I get comfort (still a bit' to stop) and even enthusiasm (will show us the right stop.) If not that our terror has moved with compassion all our eastern neighbors and, in particular, a little man eager to tell him the correct stop. I try to make sure he understood what our station and, after consulting quickly vocabolarietto my pocket, I compose the Ash "Glyfada card stop?". Tessera is for four (but do not say bleak?). The granddad include, but not by weight to the question: "Tessera, tria, sabkasvaslkalklxlvuopolos" I suppose it means "three, four, who cares?". In fact, there does come down to the very first stop of Glyfada, about two miles before instead of what is right in front of our hotel. Politely thank you, torn between gratitude for the good will and anger for the inadvertent extension of a journey that begins to get tiring.
Once you leave the luggage at the hotel, we rush, given the late hour and hunger riser toward the center Glyfada (which at this point I should point out to the resort area of Athens), that is exactly the point at 2 km away where his grandfather had done previously Teodorakis us down. Along the streets of downtown offers us the spectacle of this exuberant young Greek swarm, with composure, toward the focal points of the fun. Because of his age and fatigue do not even try to describe these items and we get instead are looking for the most edible. At last, we find a street chock-full of steak houses and grills. The runs lengthwise, for a first round Patrol, and finally choose the one with the best ratio between vacancies and menus. A healthy ubiquitous steak and eggplant sate our appetite, which was gradually transformed into hunger and subsequently, starvation, and tomes tomes Hunting Hunting we go back to the hotel, that we need a good night's sleep since the day was long and tomorrow the conference bus will pick you up at 7.30. Too
Workaholic 'sti Greeks.
stasimon
CHORUS:
you had said, a stupid piece of
You go nell'Ellade very mysterious
t'appare Even if the ground a bit 'bare
Traveling is always a nice.
Or are you complaining about those distances What do you torment
But itchy feet when you come back in the quiet halls
These aching already no longer hear them.
asleep And now, a stupid piece of
that the night is long and hot
And you wake up much more than half
If it does not air conditioned.
Come on hurry up, sleep and rest
that is good here now comes the bus
Force antibiotic, take a nice thing,
and clean up the gorge from ...
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