Love is in the air. Athens by night by day and for ever!

Yessss!! Yesss!! I wanted to shout. I felt the same euphoria as somebody feels after a good orgasm. The reason was not Johnny who was lying next to me unconscious but James Owen. It was early in the morning and Johnny was still sleeping and I was reading the newspaper which the paper boy had just delivered. Despite his unconsciousness I couldn’t resist to ask him “Do you know James Owen”. Johnny woke up after my persistence and said “why you ask?” “Because I just found the right Englishman I should have married”. Johnny answered back “What a coincidence, me too the right woman, see Carla Bruni.” Johnny is an expert to answer back like a flush.
The reason of the above feelings towards James Owen was nothing more than his article in Financial Times. The best thing I have ever read from an English person about Greece and specifically about Athens, my city. He wrote an article about Athens without irony, caustic remarks, bitterness, and snobbery. Everything is in moderation and sympathy and a bit of love. You can’t but love him.
Enjoy then, bits of the article: For the full article see http://www.ft.com/ james owen)
“What I love about ... Athens......Where they still throw flowers
Winter is not the season one associates with Athens, but this is when those who love this dishevelled and ageing beauty reclaim her. ...There is nowhere like Athens, I find for self-examination. “Know yourself, “advised the Delphi oracle, “nothing in excess”.....
For me, its jumble of streets and the happy aimlessness of the crowds that flow up and down then still lends it the exoticism of an Ottoman city...
A race, I thought, of merchants and hypochondriacs. I grew to know and love them better.
About Zonars..This is the new Athens all about seeing and being seen.The society matrons are still there, with their fur wraps and gossip..
The Athenians like spectacle, catching a show, or some bouzouki music. It’s quite glitzy, very Greek.........”

P.S. I got my laptop and I started my research about James Owen, age, look...etc. I got a glimpse of Johnny with a worried expression and gently I handed on the Sunday Times to him with the picture of Carla Bruni!