Overview

In Book I, the Viennese walking trails formed the background with reflections about scenes in South Africa, the poet's former temporary home. In this second volume, Wandering the City Trails - Pilgrimage and Rebirth, reports about impressions of familiar trails along the city of Athens with its sites of antiquity as its background, reflecting about changes since twenty years, while searching for the resting place of his muse and beloved, a city where the idea of democracy had been first probed, where philosophical schools influenced society, and laid the foundation stones for western societies. But foremost, the poet's love for for the arts, as he felt their magical beauty touching him just like the first time he experienced it. The shining highlights of sculptural and architectural achievements of the Classical period featured on the Acropolis of Athens and in the Acropolis Museum nearby, where its top floor, constructed in sync with the Parthenon temple, a masterpiece of fusing art as a 3D model keeping exact dimensions of the original one can view at the same time on the 'Sacred Rock'. This great idea by Bernard Tschumi and Associate Architect Michael Photiadis resulted in a first time of pulling the actual size of the Parthenon Frieze into a museum that confronts the real viewing experience of superb relief sculptures of the great temple on the rock, in full view from the museum's top floor. A place of inspiration and reflection in one of the world's greatest museums. The poet visited various sites of antiquity that he had visited before, when his muse shared this experience with him.