Quiz

Following scenario:

A woman with a baby strapped to her back is crossing a small street with about 5 meters width. There is no traffic except a bicycle on which an older grandfather, mid 70s, is riding. The man insults and curses at the young lady because he had to brake and advises her to use the zebra which is about 50 meters ahead.
And now the one million $ question: In which country are we?

Athens

After a very quick and spontaneous decision dating back to the beginning of April, I landed in Athens last week. I spent lovely days and nights there thanks to my two friends I visited!
I like to listen to the Greek language, but there is just something wrong with the combination of sounds and accents, so that my brain is unable to keep the words... I had almost 3 days to learn how to say "Thank you", which is something like "Ephgaristo", if I didn't mistake it for another thingy... again. But there is a word I remember for sure and that is: Acropolis!

I didn't take that picture, can you notice? :)
The theater in front of it:
Panoramic view:
They have some strange habits though... (yeah, I contributed to the tree's final design)

...but this is not one of them... the food is delicious! I think the name of this is "yalanci dolma", which is interestingly also the Turkish name for it! That is usually eaten with a lot of yogurt!

All time favorite sports: bird scaring followed by ignoring of agitated bird-loving older people. It's fun. Try it.

Soldiers in front of the memorial for the "nameless" soldiers. Looked like a hard job... they are not allowed to speak or move, after they go back to the little shelter which you can see on the right.
The evil eye...The mandatory day at the beach...

The port: xyz limani :)
I think that's the place where the gay dudes used to do naked sports, right? or was that back in the 450's B.C? :)
Shopping at night

Traditional colorful shoesand restaurants... mhmmmmm

Thanks for showing me around and being so generous and welcoming, my friends!


"If you love something set it free, if it comes back then it's yours, if it doesn't then it was never meant to be" - apparently a Chinese proverb.

Flash of inspiration

"I guess the art in life is kinda to find sources of motivation in all situations." - some dude.

Paris

Spending a long weekend in Paris definitely tires you, especially if you walk from site to site. I think everybody is familiar with Paris' face (haha, what a pun), so I'll just post some cool pictures. The most impressive thing we saw, was the Louvre for me. It is just so amazingly large and I liked the architecture and all. The pyramids and the feeling of being in "The DaVinci Code"'s world... thrilling. Sadly there is no tomb down there... just ticket teller machines and information desks..

Lost his head:
Inside Notre Dame:
Everyone knows that thing, right?


World's best fish burger:

I guess you have seen enough pictures of DaVinci's Mona Lisa... but have you ever seen the crowd in front of it? here they are:

another famous one:

The Louvre, from inside to outside view:
Night shots:

Leaving Napoleon's tomb (how do you pronounce this word? is it more like "tom", like something heavy falling on the floor and doing that sound 'tomb' or is it more like "tuuuum", like when something cool happens and you were to say "uuuhhh"?)
and now we're looking back to Napoleon's tomb:
Sacre Coeur... kazillons of people:
Moulin Rouge... wasn't what I expected, although I don't really know what I expected :P
"Aux Champs-Elysées, aux Champs-Elysées, Au soleil, sous la pluie, à midi ou à minuit..."

Yep, exactly... italian food in France :) But we were quite lucky with the restaurants, most of them turned out a pretty good choice afterwards...
"Die Welt ist ein Buch. Wer nie reist, sieht nur eine Seite davon." - "The world is a book. The ones which never travel, only see one page of it."
Aurelius Augustinus (354 - 430)

Brazil (IV) - Porto Seguro

I've also spent five short days in Porto Seguro - the place where the Portuguese met the mainland for the first time (probably run aground :P).
But first of all, the first thing we do is.... we relax, hehehe:
Then we look around:
One of the famous things in this state - Bahia- is Capoeira. For most it looks like some kind of a dance-fight thing... well... it is :D

I can't get enough of beaches, waves, sand and blue skies... By the way Bahia is closer to the equator than Rio and São Paulo, so it looks more tropical and more like you are dreaming.
So here we go once more:
A place called "Toa Toa" where people are dancing altogether to Axé music and doing movements and sounds which might remind you of the physical act of love... it's kinda fun for a while...
another one...
OK, now something very different: Mud. Filthy, brown mud. And loads of it... They lured us with "it's healthy for your skin, bla bla bla". And of course, all the women and older people went crazy. For the record: it's not worth it, it's really, really disgusting and the fricking mud makes your bathing clothing (favorably a tiny G-string for girls :D) exceptionally dirty.
Back to nice things: See this guy? Why does he look so happy? Any guesses?
There may be lots of reasons, but in that very moment the menina in the following picture was one of the main reasons... Guys, may I present you... yes... I know... say it... a w e s o m e :P

Crabs in pitú (I guess):
A real Baiana (O Que É Que A Baiana Tem?):
A fake Baiana:
Another day, another beach :) We were heading towards "Praia do Espelho".
Huge parrot, can't really recognize that in the picture though...
Wanna see what the parrot is look at... this:
The advantage of having your own private photographer with you:) You get these kind of pictures for free:

Like a dream:
This one is my creation... I mean the picture:

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." - Aristotle