Odessa, Apartment Building

Many of the buildings in Odessa could stand some maintenance, or painting at least, and one high rise (maybe 10 stories) apartment building had just rough, unpainted boards as the railing on all the balconies. Both the boards and the building look many years old, it isn’t still under construction.

We had scheduled a visit to the Opera (the most impressive building we saw) in Odessa, but since they could not raise the anchor of our ship, the SS Odysseus, for several hours while we were at the Island of Míkonos, we arrived in Odessa at the wrong time, so we couldn’t attend the function scheduled there.

The streets were filled with boys on skate-boards riding here and there, trying to do all those things kids try to do on a skateboard. The skateboards, the boys, and the stunts, looked just like they do at home.