Alec Russell wrote a wonderful article in the Financial Times, published on 09 June 2022, a travel feature, aptly entitled: 'Three days — and 3,000 years of history — in Athens'. Alec Russell's long weekend break, saw him discovering new galleries, restaurants and museums — and fresh calls for the return of ancient treasures!
"I had last been to Athens six years ago with a teenage son. We had immersed ourselves in its history over five archaeology-rich days. But this time had to be different. It was a weekend break, however heretical this may sound to classicists. My wife had last been to Athens in the 1980s as a child. So after all those years, the Parthenon had to have top billing. Yet we had just three days — and contemporary, spruced-up Athens was also in our sights." Writes Alec Russell
To read the article follow the link to the FT.
"Diplomatically, our guide let the stones tell their own story. Just down the hill, however, Nikolaos Stampolidis, the impassioned director-general of the Acropolis Museum and one of Greece’s most renowned archaeologists, did not hold back. After endless ebb and flow over the years, the argument over whether the “Elgin Marbles” should be returned from the British Museum — which bought them from Elgin — is bubbling once more and seemingly tilting in the Greeks’ favour."
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