Sometimes it's difficult to remember during the crushing economic crisis in Greece that there are still places where you can go to forget about it all, if only for a little while, and see a reminder of what the country used to be.
Athens, it must be said, is not a charming city and it makes you wince to look at drawings of what it looked like during the glory days when the Parthenon was being built, and even its neo-classical period and then see the descent into dirty, grey concrete graffiti-ridden buildings which abound everywhere.
There's little public art, almost no grass and few places where you can find serenity. But you can, if only a bit, atop Lycabettus, a 909-foot high hill where you can grab a view of the city, best done at dusk when the grime is covered. It's the highest point in a city going through some low times.
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