albumHandle = "europe"; albumTitle = "Europe '02"; showTitle = true; showDate = true; var picArray = new Array (new Array (21202,"DSCN0343",1,"Athens, Greece","At the Parthenon."), new Array (21202,"DSCN0344",1,"Athens, Greece","Margarita cut school to come \"learn\" with me in Athens."), new Array (21202,"DSCN0345",1,"Athens, Greece","Ancient Greeks were into big hooters."), new Array (21202,"DSCN0346",1,"Athens, Greece","Inside the Acropolis Museum."), new Array (21202,"DSCN0347",1,"Athens, Greece",""), new Array (21202,"DSCN0356",1,"Athens, Greece","See, this is the problem with building in stone: The tuck pointing never ends!"), new Array (21202,"DSCN0358",1,"Athens, Greece","We had our sack lunch while watching an excavation in the ancient Plaka."), new Array (21202,"DSCN0359",1,"Athens, Greece","Margarita's new friend, one of the evzones who guard the Vouli parliament building."), new Array (21202,"DSCN0360",1,"Athens, Greece","Syntagma Square is filled with birds, thanks in part to the two men on the left, who rush up to tourists, pour birdseed into their hands and over their heads, and then offer/demand to take Polaroid photo of the birds that flock. The dialogue goes something like this \(translation mine\):

Hustler: \"Fotoghrafies! Fotoghrafies!\" \(\"Pictures! Pictures!\"\)

Tourist: \"Ochi, ochi.\" \(\"No, no.\"\)

H: \"Take your picture!\" \(\"I deduce from the way you pronounce 'ochi' as 'okie' that you are a dumb tourist.\"\)

T: \"Poso kani?\" \(\"OK, fine, whatever. How much?\"\)

H: \"One thousand drachmai.\" \(\"Let me now pinpoint how dumb you are.\"\)

T: \"How much in euro?\" \(\"I am so dumb, I forget how many euro are in a thousand drachmai.\"\)

H: \"Tessera euro.\" \(\"Four euro. Boy are you dumb!\"\)

T: \"OK, fine.\" \(\"Boy am I dumb.\"\)

The hustler accepts the money and with a camera worth not much more than four euro itself takes the tourists' picture.

Tourist's niece \(sotto voce\): \"How much did you give him?\"

T: \"Four euro.\"

TN: \"But 1,000 drachmai is only 2.93 euro!\" \(\"I have the dumbest uncle in the entire world.\"\)

T: \"D'oh!\" \(\"D'oh!\"\)"), new Array (21202,"DSCN0385",1,"Athens, Greece","Our four-euro photo"), new Array (21202,"DSCN0363",1,"Athens, Greece","In the National Gardens."), new Array (21202,"DSCN0366",1,"Athens, Greece","At the Panathenaic Stadium, used for the 1896 Olympics."), new Array (21202,"DSCN0373",1,"Athens, Greece","The stadium has one of the better views of the Acropolis."), new Array (21202,"DSCN0376",1,"Athens, Greece","I am the chump! I mean, the champ!"), new Array (21202,"DSCN0379",1,"Kypseli, Greece","At the Pnyx near Filopappos Hill."), new Array (21202,"DSCN0380",1,"Kypseli, Greece","Margarita's first bar! After dragging her all around the city, I was in the mood to buy us some ice cream. Unfortunately, the closest thing to a parlor we found was the Bellini Musicafe, which had a sign for ice cream in the window. Inside we found found four swarthy Greeks enjoying their afternoon liquor. The bartender wore a burgundy velvet shirt unbuttoned to reveal a hairy chest and a large gold medallian. He scooped us our ice cream -- more ice than cream, really -- and we enjoyed it while listening to James Brown over the stereo."), new Array (21202,"DSCN0381",1,"Kypseli, Greece","\"Solana, I fuck your mother!\"

In anticipation of the 2004 Olympics, Athens has decreed that all graffiti must be written in Greek and English."), new Array (21202,"DSCN0384",1,"Aegina, Greece","Back in Aegina."), new Array (21202,"DSCN0389",1,"Kypseli, Greece","Lia, Dmitra, Danae"), new Array (21202,"DSCN0390",1,"Kypseli, Greece","Yanni, Aliki, Margarita"), new Array (21202,"DSCN0391",1,"Kypseli, Greece","Nikola, Mr. Cool"), new Array (21202,"DSCN0393",1,"Kypseli, Greece","Every night there was a different American movie on TV, including \"Rambo,\" \"Fargo\" and, here, \"Wayne's World 2.\""), new Array (5) // a filler, so we don't have to worry about removing the comma at the end of the last entry. );