Greek Graffiti

One thing that surprised me as we walked the streets of Athens was the amount of graffiti. It still amazes me that people will vandalise such historic buildings and vandalise other people’s artwork. There appears to be a lot of street art, which is different to graffiti, but it too has been tagged and vandalised. That is one thing that doesn’t seem to happen at home, if a space has been covered with artwork it doesn’t seem to get graffitied.

There are definitely some unusual pieces of street art adorning some of the walls, they really make you question what on earth the “artist” was thinking when they created it. In some places it has improved the small alleyways but it other places it just seems so wrong to have street art and graffiti destroying the look of the old buildings.Read more