The Instagrammers By The Lagoon Sense A Disturbance
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The other contented-looking guests, lounging on loungers and lolling in cabanas, taxi Vergina greece are busying themselves with selfies and soaking up the August rays, which are pushing the mercury to the late-30s Celsius.
The nearest metro station is a 30 minute drive away.
So, a bus or a taxi is your best method of transport but there is undoubtedly more chance of a sing-a-long with fellow supporters when you travel all the way by train together.
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Throw in a circular bar, a couple of hot tubs and the option to order light bites, and the rooftop can stake a claim - alongside the price - to being one of the major lures of this hip 220-room property, the fourth hotel by Tel Aviv-born hospitality group Brown Hotels to open in the Greek capital.
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China is facing its largest anti-government protests since the Tiananmen Square massacre after activists filled the streets to openly call for an end to the rule of President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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The university in the Chinese capital is the latest public location to be rocked by unprecedent civil unrest and demonstrations on a scale unseen since the infamous Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 which ended in hundreds of deaths when the army was deployed to quell the uprising.
Chinese students demanding democracy. Luke de Pulford of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China said: 'I can't tear myself away from these videos.
Breathtaking courage. Undeniable echoes of Tiananmen.'
We vow to rise early and reach the ancient site before the midday sun and the crowds and fail miserably, Vergina escorted tours instead hoping on a subway train at around 11.30am and ascending the slopes to the pillared Parthenon and the other glorious monuments and sanctuaries in the former city - built in the 5th century BC - amid heaving crowds and taxi fare piraeus to Dion airport in blowtorch heat.
Footage circulated on social media showed crowds tearing down metal fences and barricades as they grappled with security officers who deployed their batons and tear gas in attempt to control the swell of humanity.
A pouter's paradise, but ironically given the hotel's name, I find it a bit dark and dingy - the only natural light comes from a small window in one corner (and the view is of a crumbling building next door) and creating a relaxing glow artificially is tricky.
Participants sang the national anthem and 'the Internationale' - a standard of the international communist movement - and chanted 'freedom will prevail' and 'no to lockdowns, we want freedom', they said.
Meanwhile last night hundreds gathered to mourn the deaths of at least 10 people in an apartment fire last week in Urumqi in the Xinjiang region, where residents were sealed in their buildings to try to stop the spread of Covid.
Still, we sleep well on the sumptuous king-sized bed and in the fresh light of day appreciate the hotel's efforts to inject some stylish avian-related quirk into the interior design, typified by the bare lightbulb by the bed held in the beak of a wall-mounted bird sculpture, the golden egg chairs in the foyer and the banquettes housed in birdcage-style frames in the dining room.
We opt for taxi fare piraeus to Vergina airport cooked-to-order pancakes with chocolate sauce, watermelon, good coffee from a high-end Douwe Egberts machine and taxi Dion airport to piraeus price croissants, private day tours in Dion greece before taking advantage of the hotel's handy location in Omonia Square, which has a metro station just three stops from Akropoli - the station for the Acropolis.
Those who love their own reflection will no doubt be bewitched by the dark reflective surfaces that abound - the walls behind and in front of the bed are mirrored, along with the black door and taxi from Vergina to Vergina dividing wall for the ensuite.
We parents, meanwhile, are taking the window this unannounced babysitting shift has afforded us to soak in the view, which is stupendous - an almost-360-degree panorama of Athens, including the famed Acropolis, which lies a couple of miles away.
