David Gilmour @ Παντοπωλείον "Κατσίκα"

 

The HIVE Tour - Episode 71 - Back home after 115 days!

It's been a long time since I recall myself waking up in the sea and since I'm an early bird I manage to catch the first rays of the sun struggling to make it through these clouds somewhere West of Albania:

The HIVE Tour - Episode 70 - 1st post COVID19 ferry trip reminded me how it sucks

 As you saw in the previous episode I waited for a later than late ferry at Ancona which is beyond ludicrous if you consider that this is the normality of the ferry companies for the last years. They don't give an F, they give you a departing time which is much earlier than the real one so they can cramp routes as much as possible as the ferry arrives, unloads and departs again. The good old days when the ferry was docked and you could enter even 2 hours before departure while the latter was accurate as a Swiss train are gone for good. Now they don't even sms you the delay as at least they used to few years ago.

Winter walk in summer(ish) weather (part 5- final)

I hope you don't have calluses on your feet from walking with me through all these parts but no worries, this is the last one. This time I'm walking eastbound still taking advantage of this brilliant weather:

Winter walk in summer(ish) weather (part 4)

Had enough sea beauty from my previous parts or there's no thing like enough?

As I continue walking West I have to get back on tarmac as the coastal path led me to a dead end:

Winter walk in summer(ish) weather (part 3)

If you follow my posts or are a native one you know how kids (of various ages) like to spray their attitude on every blank space around here, even outside the urban web at coastal areas where you can only find hotels and cottages:

Winter walk in summer(ish) weather (part 1)

Or in other words the wonders of spending your time over Hellenic soil. You wake up, take your breakfast and start walking by the coastline of the Athenian riviera:

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

Moto trip to Iraion ancient site & Vouliagmeni lake

Moto ride to Vravrona ancient Greek site

Moto trip to Ramnous & Brexiza

Motorcycle ride to Amfiaraeion (Ancient Greek site) via Penteli and Marathon lake.