Now jingle eggs, jingle eggs.

Good Friday in Krakow today.
Yet spring has totally forgotten to visit us.

Now: looking out the window

The view from my balcony!
Initially I thought it was natural light, but heck, it is still beautiful!
If you have a sharp eye you might notice that the clock's hands are missing. I used to glance over to see the time but one day I noticed the hands were gone! Who took them?

Ως πιστός και φιλότεχνος στρατιώτης. As a loyal and resourceful soldier.

There are some afternoons in the army camp when time passes slowly enough to be against all laws of physics.
A., a film director, has invented the so called lower-bed-theatre to have some quality time.

17/2/2012 Follow up:
A piece of A.'s (aka Sir Avrilios Karakostas) work is a documentary about Zagori in Epirus. You are strongly encouraged to watch it here.

And a question: Any ideas why when I post from my SE X8, the photo in the blog has all those small squares? They do not appear in the original photo in the smartphone!

Now grias kastro

The Virgin's chapel close to the medieval castle overlooking Joyfully Kochylou(*) village. Tonight we observe the vespers for tomorrow's celebration. More on the kastro (castle) and the gria (old lady) to follow.

edit: More on the castro and the gria, and also her beach may be found in this post.

(*) btw SE xperia X8 has a great auto correct feature, I think I should get used to it. Until then, "Kochylou" will be automatically corrected to "Joyfully". This alternative is rather appropriate, but it was not in my mind when I wrote the post.
One more thing about X8. Its camera has no autofocus, not even manual focus... which is bad.

Now the moon

Finally, a warm day! Enjoy a rarely seen Moon from cloudy Munich!

Now Platanos (?) Beach.

We headed to a beach named Platanos. After some wandering off road I am not really sure we are there. Anyway, it is a great small bay!

Now Syneti beach

Z had a great idea! Easy to guess the island!

Now aftermath

real protesters cleaning up the mess left behind by the kind contribution of the government

Now more tear gas

Now attacked with tear gas

Now Lidi beach II

Guess where! Andros island!
Lidi beach is located close to the beautiful small village Vrachnou.

Now Lidi beach

 

Now blocked

Every road towards Syntagma sq. was blocked by armed police forces.

And then we were blocked by the police.

Now we must go through kolonaki.

Now river of indignation

Syntagma station exceeded capacity. We were requested to leave the train one station earlier.

Babies are the hope

"The square is with child. Beware of the baby."

It brings to mind a famous greek song:
"Έχε το νού σου στο παιδί,
γιατί αν γλιτώσει το παιδί,
υπάρχει ελπίδα..."

"Take care of the child,
because if the child makes it,
there is hope..."

Squared

"We don't go to the square, we stay at the square"

Referring to the people who have actually camped on Syntagma square. To my disappointment, still invisible to the rest of Europe.

p.s. "Let's go to the square" is a common phrase, especially among young people as squares are regularly meeting places.

Now forum

When the parliament is corrupted, then, direct democracy is essentially coming in the foreground.

Read our short log from these days here.

Now gallows - and an alternative

Some people tonight brought gallows in Syntagma sq. Guess for whom.

In the open forum later, a speaker stated that we shouldn't express ourselves like that because it denotes violence, and a principle of this outcry is non-violence. I guess bringing the gallows is just a symbolism.


I remembered, a story we were told some years ago in Heidelberg castle. Back in the, more democratic than today, medieval era, WCs were placed on the walls of the castles, like balconies. The "products" were dropped in the terrace below the WC-balcony. So, when the public was not very fond of the local ruler, the punishment was to drop him in the afforementioned terrace. It's definitely not violent, as no pain is induced, but if I were a ruler I would be very very careful...

I think we should consider this as an alternative to gallows...

Now women against the debt

We owe nothing, we pay nothing