The World Cup has become part of football fans’ holiday whereas the football fever is still on and numerous TV screens are set up in most bars, cafés, restaurants, and even in the streets and squares of Athens to give the possibility to people have fun and enjoy the matches. Either we want it or not, we live in Brazilian rhythms.

While the temperatures are raising, those who remain in the Athens have many choices to entertain themselves from going to a bar, a restaurant to watching a theatrical performance or a movie at an open-air cinema. In the center, foreign tourists photograph cyclists who pass by the demonstrators who protest against government policy and look at the homeless discovering the elements of crisis that still troubles us.

1. Vassilis Sofias Avenue. The first heatwave in the capital led many citizens to the beaches.

2. Syntagma station. The platforms of metro are crowed early in the morning on weekends with people who are hurry to catch the last late-night train.

3. Karytsi Street & 3 Thisio. Watching World Cup is always better when you hang out, drink and eat, that’s why bar have set up TV screens for the football fans.

4. Syntagma square. Nuts seller among the demonstrators in the center.

5. Syntagma Square. Groups of young cyclists show off their talent.

6. Monastiraki. Bookshops in the region offer good and cheap solutions for summer reading.

7. Aiolou street. We can see distributors of the magazine “Raft”, which presents issues concerning the homeless, everywhere in the center of Athens.

8. Karagiorgi Servia street. Tourists look with curiosity the laid-off cleaners of the Ministry of Finance protesting.

9. Ermou street. Homeless people at the center of Athens remind us that the development is still far away for many people around us.

10. Thiseos street. World Music Day was celebrated with concerts in several places in Athens.

11. Adrianou street. The coolness of air conditioners in the shops attracted many foreign visitors who had the opportunity to relax by doing their shopping.