Το φιτρί αγόρι (colourful life)

In this blurry picture you’re watching a guy installing the first christmas lights. Ergo, Christmas is here. This is the signal shops need to start changing their windows. Adding fake snow, and fixing prices because “In Christms everybody buys”.

I like the “smell” of winter and therefore the “smell” of Christmas. You can see Christmas as some kind of game where people change a bit his attitude about others and everybody tries to be a bit more friendly because “it’s Christmas time”.

Presents, celebrations, meeting old friends. In Spain I like the “food” part of Christmas. Have dinner with typical spanish products. Yeah! I love it. (Yes, this means jamon :P). This year I’ll miss that part because I’ll stay in Greece. It’s gonna be my first Christmas here.

I hope it snows a little bit

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