Athens Greeknotes 28 Jun

The week began with the news that, as The Onion declared Keir Starmer Resigns Amid ‘Not Being Very Good Prime Minister’ Scandal. I made a popular post on mastodon and bluesky re. the resignation lecterns of recent prime ministers. Cinema failure monday It has not been as hot as the uk and france here, around 30ºC, and on monday after last week’s success with the superb summer cinema in nea filadelfia, I visited the even more local municipal summer cinema in iraklio. It was not a success, I got the nights wrong and after paying €7 to get in I realised the film was in spanish with greek subtitles – one language that I’m terrible at and the another even worse. So I cut my losses and went to my nearby local and watched the argentina vs austria match instead, which as messi was pinging them in, turned the evening into a successful failure. Marikes beach Having a free wednesday afternoon, I tried out another first – Marikes beach on the east coast of attica, only 35 minutes from home. It…