last post.

so... that was it. this is the last post of this blog. i am in athens as you can imagine.

i don't have any photos from athens because the last day i just wanted to arrive home and i did

not stop to make any.

thank you everybody that followed me through this blog. thank you for your support.it was really

important for me.. 

feel free to contact me if you have questions or if you want to say hi or whatever. i will

create a new blog soon though. i will publish the link when i do. 

goodbye  everybody and may we all have luck,love and peace in our lives.  

:) ciao.

More photos ! λαλαλα

εισαι ελληνας? .. ε, ψησε και φαε! καλο αυτο..  all these photos are from evvoia island.

very-very pretty! hope it stays like that.. (if we dont burn it..)  :/

is this it?

soo.... 

i am writing from my house now.. Yes i am in athens back home. :)

it was all a very progressive procedure but still i was verry happy when i stepped through the door.. my parents,brother and a friend welcomed me home . it was very funny to see them all with the photo cameras and all this fuss.! thanks. :)

  

so some words about the last days. after i left volos..

the prettiest stretch of my trip in greece was that of northern evvoia. . 

it was the only that was not flooded with garbage everywhere, even though it still had quite alot..

i dont understand us greeks sometimes.. it seems that we dont have any idea of what respect of other people and respect of our self is..  the garbage is just a small sample of that..

 the real problem  is that we dont have a clue about all that and the majority of us think that we are 

super civilized,generus,good hurted and plus , that we have something special as a nation..

so we sleep in peace..

    

maybe we do have something. but its difficult to see anything with all the rubish that's floating on the surface...

all i am saying is that i think that we need to do a lot of hard work as a country and as individuals all of us ,me included ,if we want to make some things better here.. 

we need more public spaces,  a parc ! less cars on the street, respect of everybody that is sharing his space with ours, less beeping ,less criticism ,more patience... 

i dont know.. on one hand i am very happy to be back ,but on the other hand it makes me sad to realize the greek reality. i feel that we are a fobic and actually closed nation. biased  religiously and socially ..  

also something that really socked me was the following insident.. 

i was riding on the national road to athens. so 200 m in front of me there was a bus that had stopped and the people were outside of it. taking some air maybe.. 

 as i was approaching  the bus one of the people took a stone and threw it at me or my direction anyway!!!!! ?????? 

 i could not help staying with my mouth open in front of the greatness of the human stupidity that was unfolding in front of me.. 

    As i got closer this person was at the side of the street screaming at the cars passing by, swearing and making hand gestures at everybody ......   he did not look at me in the eyes...

i was really stunned by his behavior.. 

  i realized after that,that it was a bus with football fans of the team paok... .

i someone can explain to me how throwing stones and swearing people that is just passing by,including a touring cyclist,makes sense i would be grateful... 

it cost me 2 hours to get over it.. i couldnt and i still cant believe i saw this... .

anyway ,,.. that was before i enter evvoia so. the natural beautie of the island made it back to me.. 

so nothing super special after that, i rode to artaki next to halkida, stayed at the house of my friend tasos and had a very nice time ... after that i rode to athens aaand here i am now...

photos. and i will post some more i guess.. 

i would like your comments and thoughts about all that. :) thanks everybody. 

   

almost done! :)

hello-hello-hello!
i am close, very close,to the finish line!
today in xalkida. tommorow in athens...
i will give a full report and impressions
from home..

i had a very nice ride in evvoia . beautiful place.!

so.. tune in for the last posts of this blog..

ciao!

The Doc.

I got my bike to the surgeon today. :)
beautiful job. Mr. Zafiroulis in Larisa,
welded my fork nicely and now i can ride again carefree!
hop. hop.

it feels like i never i left this town now that i am back.. :)

A dream..

i saw this the first night i slept in thessaloniki and its not a joke.

i was riding my bicycle in a road, there was a sidewalk and a bus stop..
everything normal exept that , my tires were submerging in the road making a sound like krits -krits-krits.
the road was not a road, it was all a huge bugatsa with cheese....
a bit surrealistic no?
jem

Barcelona -Elassona mission acomplished! :)

hello!!yes barcelona elassona is a reality!
i left thessaloniki yesterday morning after having a very good time in the film festival over there..
so i rode untill katerini ,then went inside between mt.olympus and mt.pieria utill i reached ellasona (ole) and then i finally aproached larisa! nice.
no problems with the weather today... the only thing is that i had at least 50 tsompanboskila (dogs that guard sheeps.) at groups of five or more ,atacking me in only 3 hours. thankfully with no casualties on both sides..
i just had to face them and make it clear that i was not scared of them.
after that one or two aBbRRRRT and some OuSTo was enough to get me on my way again,dog-free. :)
so now ,chill, tsipuro, and i ill be on my way soon. i have a lot of friends here as i was studing in this town for 3,5 years.. :)
good times.. so.. cheers and see you soon again i n a few days.