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Nothing has been happening in the last month, I mean I've been busy. There's just nothing worth taking my time. Well we went to the Manchester Illusion Museum which was a little underwhelming, but the images for that I'll leave in the family album if that's OK. Then there have been periods of working away and being ill to content with. So here we go with another one of Athens.

When you are in Athens, it seems quite hilly, but then again our accommodation was not that far from the Acropolis, but when you look out when you're high enough, it seems to sprawl out as flat as a pancake. I have a picture of the opposite side where again there's just a sea of low rise properties, except for one peak in the distance. And that's the other thing. There are no huge towers dominating, and there's a reason for that... you can't build them. Most places are restricted to 3-4 floors. It does make the whole place look a little odd, and the image here does give some impression as to how high you are from the ground level at the Acropolis, though I'm not 100% sure it really does it justice. Though I did have to get this in a rush, the guides were forcing people to exit the Acropolis once they were done, not standing about taking pictures now, that would not do.

As far as the building restrictions are concerned, we must have been on one of the buildings with an exemption, as we were on the 5th floor.

One other place I know that has building height restrictions is Kyoto. They didn't want to lose the charm of Kyoto with skyscrapers overshadowing the traditional temples, shrines and the mountains.

And of course despite the built up nature of London, they have protected views were people have a right to keep their view of St Pauls , the Tower of London or Westminster.