View of Mikrolimano Marina, Piraeus. Source: Wikimedia CommonsA long way to travel from Idomeni to Athens and another hard and exhausting journey has been added to the many that took place before. The aspiration was to get rid of the plague of useless waiting in Idomeni, a few days before the Greek authorities shut it down, planning for a better next step in Athens that could get us out of Greece to some other western European country, where we could go back to something called normal life.
Here we are now for two weeks at the Athenian harbour Piraeus, where tens, maybe a few hundreds of refugees camp around the hall, in which regular travellers can buy their tickets for national and international routes. The scene is not that terrible at all for those who have seen other refugee camps around Greece, actually the people’s nature around here tends to the colour of the calm blue sea and the sands of time run slowly watching the huge tourist liners travel by.
Tourists have come from many other countries to go sightseeing and tour the ancient places, in which they hope to catch a whiff of the antique Greek epics inspired by the tragic poems of Homer. They are shocked to face us refugees who have fled our homes carrying our own war epics to face psychological traumas along the way.
