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I love Greece and the Greeks but they have destroyed Athens

It’s wonderful to be back under the Attic sun but much of this city is now one long cement block after another

The way it was: much of old Athens has been destroyed but the beautiful tiny district of Anafiotika above Plaka and underneath the Acropolis remains. Credit: LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images
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