Friday, 2 of July, 9 p.m. I was on the phone, asking my mother what sort of childhood vaccines doctors gave me when i was a child. Sometime between diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough and polio my cellphone rang. With one phone already up to my ear i answered the cell. It was captain Sakis. "Hey dude! What about a Parnitha tour?" "When?" i reply. "Tomorrow, 10.30." "OK. See you tomorrow." End of conversation. I really like this kind of chat between friends when you say everything you wanna say in three words.No more-no less. Anyway, then turned to my mom and said "so...what about measles? Did i get it or no?"
3 of July. The Range Rover was already off the road and into the fields. Magpies and crows must really hate off road vehicles because everytime we passing through fields they start making loud throaty screams like they say "Get out of here you pervs! Stay at your ugly cities. Don't say that you love nature using a 4000 cc car with a huge tailpipe." And they are right.
After a crazy driving in the fields with many ups and downs i got the feeling that all the liquids in my stomach transformed to foam. I felt better only when we hit the dirt road again but the foamy feeling was down there for hours.
All of a sudden we saw a forest fire station right at the top of the hill. It was decided to go there to see what the fireman could see. Well, the view was excellent. You could see the most of Imitos mountain, a part of Saronikos gulf and southwest, something like a ancient castle.
With my handheld radio on my hand i took part in the 9th VHF Aegean Contest that was running that weekend. I made a fine contact with J41P radio station located at Panio mountain (East-Northeast from where i was). But our minds was stuck in that ancient castle. So without hesitation we went there. We found out that it was build in 4th century B.C. and as almost every ancient place in Greece was untended. We got into the "Filis Castle" like a charm. We saw those huge stones of the walls, we saw many plastic bottles around and some goat shit but finally we enjoyed the glorious view from the top of the wall. With all that shitty perfume around me i realized that "Greece don't give a shit about ancient castles....but goats do!!!"
We left the ancient Filis Castle and the shitty perfume behind us and then we stopped for a while near a spring just to drink some fresh real water that was coming out from mother earth. Then we saw a sing named "This tavern is open 24 hours but only the odd months of the year." Is this kind of weird or what?
It was already July but we were not hungry. So we decided to visited that tavern in ...2 months.
With this hilarious sing in our minds we drove back to Athens. We made a quick stop just to pick up some wild oregano and mint and that was all about.
Mount Parnitha is a great place, even now, after the big fire it's still green and wild and....smelly.
c.u. later.
kostas.
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