Are the Stray Dogs of Athens Guardian Angels?
Hi Matt, Your article regarding the stray dogs in Athens and Greece (in general) really touched a special place in my heart. You see, I visited Athens for the first time in September 2003 and being an animal lover, seeing all the stray dogs and cats made me very sad. The first day when I was took the bus from the airport to my hotel- the Cypria Hotel, I saw so many stray dogs walking in the streets. I was actually shocked, because all the Greece info sites and books that I read before going to Greece did not mention the problem they had with strays. I wanted to take home each and every stray that I saw. There was this one stray dog that (i would like to think was my guardian angel- an angel) followed my two friends and I as we walked very late at night (past 12 a.m.) back to our hotel. The walk was about 1 and a half hour long because we didn’t realize that Athen’s new subway system stopped running after 12 a.m. (? or was it 11 p.m.?), and we missed the last bus too, so us visiting Ath
