Cold weekend in Greece
If you have seen the news or you are right now in Greece. Yes, it’s cold.
This weekend has been one of the coldest I my life in Greece. This time it was snowing (not like my last post) a lot. I started to feel the cold and the first snow flakes on Saturday when I was leaving for Markopoulo to spend the night with some () friends. We arrived and the wind was really cold. The weather was “shouting” snow!
Hours later it started. In the beginning it didn’t stay, but after all the night snowing we woke up with a white landscape and thinking on staying there (Panos, I love your place, but I have to go to work 
). We moved with a car to the nearest Proastiakos station, and after some time waiting in the car (to avoid to die frozen) we were on the way to Athens.
I didn’t expect what you can see on the pictures. But when I got to the top of the bridge to with the elevator, the image was that (bad quality picture, I know). I couldn’t believe it. Snow everywhere. And not a bit… enough to organize a nice snow battle.
The return trip to home was a bit difficult. Without the right shoes I was walking using small steps to avoid to eat snow 
But even with that weather, there is always someone who believes that his/her 4WD car can do miracles and drive over 20cm of snow without chains (or similar device for ice/snow) or even good wheels. So a crazy driver almost killed me. I saw the reflection of a yellow light in the snow, and I thought: In this street that goes down the hill… I’m almost sliding, therefore a 1 ton car should be like a huge sledge. Of course, the car just slid down the “hill”. I had time to jump between two cars and see the car following the way of the road (even its wheels were saying otherwise).
At least I’m alive. It’s cold. It’s late, and tomorrow nobody will go to the office. I’ll be the only stupid there because I live 1 minute from my place.
Have a nice freezing week
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Jordi said,
2008-02-18 @ 3.39 pm
come back to Spain soon, we need snow for skiing!! :-\
betabug said,
2008-02-18 @ 6.12 pm
It was a good weekend at liberos place and a little adventure to get back home. Glad you survived the attack of the zombie jeeps!
thundera said,
2008-02-18 @ 10.17 pm
I wish i was in Athens to enjoy the snow and your hugs…but unfortunately i have to be in Patra for the exams….Athens is really beautifull (and cold of course) when it snows , but be sure that many people don’t think that is dangerous to be in the road with a car while it snows.And that is because it doesn’t snow often here.So… be careful of the Flying motorbikes and the sliding cars!
Vasia said,
2008-02-19 @ 12.12 pm
It was all true, I have many pictures of my own to proove it!
The same thing happened to me at the same road (but with a regular car) as I was leaving your place that night!!! Me and George stared for about 10 minutes a car (without chains of course…) trying to move forward and couldn’t deside which way to go so as not to be stepped over by this MALAKA.
By the way, my car is still freezing 3 roads above your home. I’m not thinking about moving it before the snow melts…
graffic said,
2008-02-19 @ 6.53 pm
@Vasia: don’t move it. Today I saw a car trying to move in the end of the street and it was sliding trying to escape.
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2008-02-23 @ 9.30 pm
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