My map so far (and counting)

 Finally I managed to put most of the places I've been and written a story for in one map. Here it is, fresh as it gets before I even embed it on my site:

There's lots of trips left out, mostly places I've visited (a bit too) long ago before I started writing travelogues but it still includes a good amount of my travelling so far. Took me several days to finish as every single point has the relevant link. Some of you guys that we had the luck to meet out there might find yourselves in my stories.

Looking at it kinda feels like my mirror. If you see the areas I've revisited the most and the ones I haven't so far sideways speaks for my taste. Of course it's also a matter of what's easy for me to reach - I'd exchange some indifferent roads in Turkey for a bit of US West coast any day anytime but it's still fine. I have no desire to delete even the most indifferent bits of my travels so far, maybe just because there wasn't any. 

Safe rides and travels to you all!

Climate change / Κλιματική αλλαγή

WWII German cemetery / Γερμανικό νεκροταφείο Διονύσου Β' ΠΠ

Rapentosa waterfall / Καταρράκτης Ραπεντώσας

Rapentosa dam / Φράγμα Ραπεντώσας

Πράσσειν ΚΙΝΑΛογα

 Η αλήθεια είναι πως τα ΜΜΕ ασχολήθηκαν με τα εσωκομματικά του ΚΙΝΑΛ (δηλαδή το ΠΑΣΟΚ που ντρέπεται να λέγεται έτσι) πολύ περισσότερο από όσο θα έκαναν με οποιοδήποτε άλλο κόμμα κατέγραφε μονοψήφια ποσοστά για 7 ολόκληρα χρόνια. Διάφορους λόγους μπορεί να επικαλεστεί κανείς αλλά ο βασικότερος είναι το γεγονός πως η Ελλάδα είναι ακόμη ΠΑΣΟΚ σε ένα σημαντικό βαθμό. Και μπορεί η κοινωνία να αποΠΑΣΟΚοποιείται σε ένα βαθμό όσο η χώρα αξιοποιεί τις δυνατότητές της (πράγμα που ευτυχώς κάνει η σημερινή κυβέρνηση σε βαθμό που δεν θα το έκανε κανένα άλλο κόμμα) αντί να κανιβαλίζεται αλλά η ντόπια δημοσιογραφία παραμένει σε καλό βαθμό ΠΑΣΟΚΑΡΑ.

Amateur caving at Ymittos mountain

Parnitha mountain exploration / Εξερεύνηση στην Πάρνηθα

Greek dictator's cottage(?) @ Parnitha / Εξοχικό(;) Παπαδόπουλου στην Πάρνηθα

Medieval tower (13thBC) East of Athens / Πύργος Βραυρώνας

 

Whatever happened to the P.I.G.S.?

Let's hear what the new German Finance minister has to say about the "G" of them. If I am not mistaken, years ago this guy used to bitch on Schaeuble for not being strict enough on Greece during the peak of our crisis. Today he admits that the current Greek government not only changed the game but is also a paradigm for others, Germany included. Don't expect me to open champagnes for that as the whole ride of this 10 year crisis had an insane cost for me, the huge amount of money I lost not being the most important one. It's just that during hard times in history like that one, if you were wise enough to not follow the mainstream anti German insanity of the crowd neither the unfairly oversimplified "South is lazy" (like this guy did, like Schaeuble didn't resist it either) you were left all alone with your common sense and your only consolation was to wait one day for history to recognise that you were on the right side of things. Today, many friends and euros lost later, I can only say  "Thank you Mr. Lindner, however, with a bit more wisdom from your side it could all be so much easier for us and Europe, considering that (in theory at least) our lovely continent is our top priority like it should". I'm glad that Lindner's position confirms a new more promising chapter in the relation between the two countries, especially combined with the first German woman minister of Foreign, Mrs Baerbock (due to her positions not her genitals). By the way, good idea to rethink about selling those submarines to the asshole in the East isn't it? I mean, out of self respect first and foremost...

Have a good start and good luck!

In one of my frequent Forest Gump conspiracy free moments I wonder:

Why they call it "common sense" since it's not that common?

 

Κατά τον νέο ΥπΟικ της Γερμανίας, «η εντυπωσιακή και επιτυχημένη οικονομική πολιτική της Ελλάδας θα πρέπει να παράδειγμα και για την ίδια τη Γερμανία».

Από εκεί που το 2015 μας έδιναν 50 δις να τους αδειάσουμε τη γωνιά, καταφέραμε σε δυο χρόνια να γίνουμε πρότυπο. pic.twitter.com/BqeErxAIyO

— Georgy Zhukov ☭ (@GeorghyZhukov) December 7, 2021

Hiking Ymittos mountain / Πεζοπορία στον Υμηττό

Abandoned airbase @Keratea / Πρώην αεροπορική βάση Κερατέας

Paiania cave/Σπήλαιο Παιανίας

 

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