Athens has never been my favourite city and famous travel writer Rick Steves agreed with me. However, he thinks better of it after a tour of three of its neighbourhoods. Read more about Exarchia, Psyrri, and Gazi at Rick Steves
The developing Greece/China friendship paid off for Nicole Georgakelou, wife of the Greece ambassador to China. Her photo Lotus won first prize in a Beijing photo exhibition entitled China in My Eyes - A Photo Exhibition of Female Diplomatic Envoys and Wives of Diplomatic Envoys in China
Among those attending were everyone and anyone female connected with diplomacy in China including a great many female Ambassadors. The exhibition was hosted by Le Aimei, wife of the Chinese Foreign Minister. With a name like that I imagine she has an interesting story, but I couldn’t find it on Google. Maybe it is censored?