The Palm Tree

One early evening, as I was touring around with my bicycle exploring new neighborhoods, I passed this particular spot. It's an apartements' building that has the tallest palm tree I have ever seen! The tree is as tall as the building and considering that this is an 8 floor building (including the roof) and every floor has at least 3 meters height that means that this particular palm tree is much or less 24 meters long. 

As tall as the building!

You might think that's not high enough, but for my city it is! You don't regularly see trees that tall here. That also makes me wonder how old this palm tree really is. I don't know the growing rate of palm trees, but after examining the shape of the building and the fact that's a relatively new building I'm thinking that the palm tree was there first.

As you can see from the picture, the people living in that building tight the palm tree's trunk with a wire cable so that the tree won't lean in front and fall over time.

I've read somewhere that originally Volos had a lot of palm trees but the topical lords many years ago decided to cut them all off because they didn't want the city to look like a tropical one. But certainly I'm not implying that this tree is from back then, I just wanted to share what I've read. Not sure how valid this information is though!
Do you ever stop and take pictures of things that look unfamiliar to you around your neighborhood when you're rolling around with your bicycles? If you like to share your pictures with me along with a small description, through my contact page, I'll be happy to post them!