Athens fascinates me always. As a concept of being the centre of myriad island satellites, and as the peculiar and unfortunate twin of Byzantium, the centre of a vague border and in0between area stretching to the Balkans, dividing the concepts of west and east, birth place of Pauline Christianity, Academy and Lyceum, sister of Alexandria, Only yesterday I was sitting in sunshine and reading Socrates, sad some would say, but no Athenian ever would say so.