Είμαι είκοσι τέσσερις

Dinner party

... means in Greek "I am 24". This way I want to thank everytbody for giving me a thought, dedicating a post/letter/call/text or some personal hours. After work we went to Korinthos and went to a very nice restaurant. Just to describe it real quick: when you enter there is a big room with a high ceiling and woooden floor a well as the bar; if you turn to your right several steps (more like a half-round amphitheater) lead down to a second seating area with a fire place. It felt strange when we came in, because everyone from the lower level was looking up at you, but as soon as I was sitting next to the fire place and other people came in, I felt how I looked up automatically. This might sound irrelevant and strange to some of you, but just a crazy feeling I had (not sure if the owner thought of the psychologic side effect when he built it).

@ OR

Giorgos invited some people, so about 10 people showed up and we enjoyed some fun hours together, sharing food (typical Greek vegetable apparently - which I am still convinced was just Spinach ;)), getting a very nice birthday cake *yummy* and laughing together. The day ended at a bar called Or. What a cool place - let me tell you: completely white, about 100 degrees in the there (more like a living room feeling) and 4 people including the DJ. The inside walls were round-shaped and had several niches in the room, which created corners where you just talk. The place was not big, but because it appeared like an igloo it had style and was rather trendy. Even with not many people I had a blast!
Thanks to everybody who was there that night!

Again: Stupidity @ train station

Ok, what else? On Friday we joined a gym in Korinthos, called Vibes, great fitness center, not too big, very nice people, no anabolic bricks and a great atmosphere to work out close by the sea. We paid 140 Euro for 4 months - not too bad after all, since it includes also a sauna and very new machines. The downside is that it is in Korinthos in the Center (meaning first taking the train then walking about 40 min and the same back), but oh well - keeps you active and there is something to do after work. Speaking of work, we are still filing data, a little boring, but in a few weeks we can organize are own event, so Benny and I are very much looking forward to that. :) This weekend we have some Carneval events coming up in our little village (so yeah it is not going to be Cologne or Mainz...) with face painting, a carneval parade and a small rock concert, will see how that goes. Of course I will keep you posted.

# Fun fact for today #
When Greek people sit in the train or even in a café they play with something that looks like a string with several pearls/marbles and they swing it back and forth over their index finger and it makes clickclickclick. Pretty annoying if you keep paying attention to it - an the other hand also fascinating when you see three people talk and each of them doing this. I guess it goes for relaxation or multitasking ;)