Το φιτρί αγόρι (colourful life)

In Greece you can find lots of animal kinds. But in the TEI there is a special fauna, well I guess all around Crete, but the TEI has a special road that goes up and it have nice turns to do μαλακίες (malakies). There you can find the typical cretan driver, called also μαλάκα (malaka). They drive cars, motorbikes and buses. And in this picture you can appreciate the wildness of two of those animals when they met.

The bus is in the middle of the road, almost entirely in the opposite way, invading the lane. In the other side, you can see a car trying to get out its parking space. Why the bus was going through the other lane, and why the car driver didn’t take a look ahead, nobody knows. We know from our Greek history lessons that when you want to cross a road, you have to look left, right and up. ¿Up? Yes, for the flying motorbike.

It wasn’t a big crash, only the wheel of the car was damaged, and the bus was like new. But that stopped the traffic to and from the TEI for 15 minutes for the rest of the buses, not for cars because the bus was so much in the other lane that almost all the cars were able to pass. And of course, like in Spain, lots of people watching (even me). I don’t know if I was risking my life taking this picture but… here is it

Did I drive here? Yes, I did. In Athens, going down a road like in Tokio Drift but without drifting and shit-scared because the road had no protections in the limits and we were in a mountain. Also the car was very wide for me (Audi A4), and the road was not very wide. Driving with the fog and long distance lights. One of the normal lights was broken (very common here). The way down the road was ok, and the highway was ok, the problem was in the city. You don’t have to stop at the STOP sign, other drivers can “eat you”. And of course, you have to go as fast as possible, if not, suddenly a car will overtake you without any warning: no lights, no horn. And that happend: a car tried to go out from a street to my street, it put half of the car in my lane, I avoided it, and at the same time a car overtook me and we almost “kissed” our side mirrors. But, I survived!!!!! Im alive!

Moral of the story: If you drink, don’t drive. And if you live in Crete.. watch out!!!!