This year the city of Athens is said to spend
no more than 200,000 Euros for Christmas decorations and fireworks, this
figure is 1/10 of the amount spent in 2008.
Late November I happened to be near the new (1+ year old) Athens Metro Mall, so I went in to check out what shops it has in this mall, instead of looking at the shops I was very impressed with the Christmas decorations. I accidentally saw in the internet an interesting video on how this Christmas tree and deco were put up.
The large
candy canes are quite cute!
Beside the tree is a penguin band, which has motion
and sound (click to see
the motion)
The snowflakes on the upper floor are beautiful
For tourists info, the Athens Metro Mall is at the terminal station
of the red Metro (subway) line, called Aghios Dimitrios, the mall's Level 0
has a big supermarket AB Vasilopoulos, very convenient for tourists since it is
only 5 stops from the Acropolis station, or 6 stops from the Syntagma station
On the contrast, this is a photo from a different mall
called "The Mall", it is Athens first mall and it has been in
operation for a number of years now, people like to shop and go to see movies
there, but I find the accessibility between floors not well designed for coping
with emergency situations (no stairs in between or near the escalators)
Nevertheless, I did find an attractive COSMOTE (a
Greek mobile operator) advertisement, which says: I would like to fix a world
that brings happiness to children's faces. I suppose they must
have held a drawing competition for this ad, or for the submission of wish
phrases from children.
Greek politicians should take
note of this phrase, substituting the word "world" for
"country".
Greek people are not interested
in an early election if a capable and honest leader does not emerge to guide
the country out of financial trouble.
