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Plakias / "Oxi Day" in Plakias
« on: November 07, 2008, 05:21:25 PM »
At about ten in the morning, a couple of school mini-busses picked up all the local children from the main bus stop, in the village centre.
The children were bussed up to the church for the service (due to start about 10:30). The church must be the best part of 600 metres from the centre :!:
From around 11:00, the crowds started to gather near the bus stop, us included. As time passed, one of the "music bars" put on an ancient recording of military marches. When we could hear the distant thump - thump - thump of a bass-drum, he switched off the "broadcast".
At 11:36:58, we saw the following ......
If the images look a bit chaotic and disorganised, it's just photo-journalism. The whole thing went into a new dimension of entropy, as the children got to the bus stop and wandered off in all directions, some with family but none with the teachers who were desperately trying to keep them together.
It was all very reassuringly Greek.
The children were bussed up to the church for the service (due to start about 10:30). The church must be the best part of 600 metres from the centre :!:
From around 11:00, the crowds started to gather near the bus stop, us included. As time passed, one of the "music bars" put on an ancient recording of military marches. When we could hear the distant thump - thump - thump of a bass-drum, he switched off the "broadcast".
At 11:36:58, we saw the following ......
If the images look a bit chaotic and disorganised, it's just photo-journalism. The whole thing went into a new dimension of entropy, as the children got to the bus stop and wandered off in all directions, some with family but none with the teachers who were desperately trying to keep them together.
It was all very reassuringly Greek.