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Success at last: At the Acropolis
  
View over Athens from Acropolis Hill
  
Acropolis Adieu
 
“A traveler without observation is like a bird without wings,” is a beautiful quote by the Persian poet Moslih Eddin Saadi. These observations can involve foreign habits as well as different approaches to life in general. The phrase “It’s all Greek to me” may come to mind as one encounters unfamiliar topics for the first time.
 
Talking about Greece, there is the memory of circling around the closed Acropolis museum. During four consecutive visits to Athens for a project, we didn’t make it inside the Acropolis. “This is probably as close as you will get to the Acropolis,” a colleague commented my visit to a miniature version of the Greek Pantheon Temple at Minimumdus in the south of Austria.
  
Years later, I made it to the real, genuine, all-time famous Acropolis after all. My in the meantime retired buddy, who I contacted on the occasion, said: “Wow, I’m so happy for you... I often wish, I was there, too. Those were difficult times, but you made it possible to also have a lot of fun!”
 
By coincidence, my first own vacation after high school had brought me to a Greek island and to Athens as well. Why we decided against climbing the hill to the famous Acropolis back then, remains a mystery. It would surely have saved me some further attempts. Let me close with one final example for expressing incomprehension. In Swedish, there is also the expression: “Det aer rena grekiskan – Its pure Greek.” There we go – full circle that is!
 
Continue reading in the book “BU DONG – When Strange Things Become Familiar.”
 
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