KERKINI: A SMALL PARADISE

Yesterday was a holiday here in Greece. Forty days before Easter. This day nobody works and if the weather is good we go for excursion to the nature and we play with kites. We don 't eat meat, oil, dairy products. Just lenten stuff.
   The weather yesterday was cold but sunny. I took my car and my fiance and we went to Kerkini lake. What is that and where is that? I will tell you right away. Kerkini is the biggest artificial lake in Greece and in whole Europe. It 's located in the prefecture of Serres and it 's 35km away from the city. It was created in 1932 and it has very rare bird, animal and plant species. It 's surrounded by beautiful villages and spectacular mountains and  it 's touristic area. There are a lot of hotels. Thank God they respect the environment.
   There are many activities for visitors there. Horse riding, birds watching, boating, mountain bike, fishing, enduro, off-road driving, hiking into the forest through some specific paths and many more. There is a birds and plants center where a visitor can see interesting things.
   The hotels' prices are really cheap. €50 is the lowest you can find. There are plenty of restaurants and coffee houses where you can enjoy your food, your drink or you coffee and the most of them are traditional decorated.
   I put some photos which i got yesterday. I hope you will like them. Click on them to enlarge them.
   For more information visit the following web sites or just Google it: http://www.kerkinilake.org, http://www.oikoperiigitis.gr, http://www.e-view.gr/photoalbum.php?cat=201, http://www.gnto.gr/pages.php?pageID=348&langID=1. 

THIS IS WHERE I LIVE

Let me introduce you my hometown. I live in Serres. Serres is a small town in northern Greece, in Macedonia. Macedonia is not country but a Greek territory at the north mainland of Greece and is located on the east, one hour away, of the co-capital of Greece Thessaloniki (or Salonika for foreigners). It has approximately 100.000 citizens. I told you. It 's small.
   In the prefecture of Serres there is the biggest artificial lake in Europe. Kerkini lake. Thank God our nature is amazing. We have mountains, forests, rivers. We are lucky.
   Well don 't think it's heaven. Serres has traffic problem, unemployment, some old buildings need renovation. There are no streets for bicycles (just few), no parkings and not many parks in the city.
   Citizens are not only Greeks. There are people from many countries. There are people from Albania, England, Italy, Germany, China, arabians (not many) and people from countries-members of ex Soviet Union.
   Serres is 45 minutes away from the beach. This is very good because every summer we have unbelievable heatwave. The winter is not so cold like northern Europe but believe me it 's still cold and we have a lot of humidity. The good think is that we have a ski center 30 minutes away form the center of the city on Lailias mountain.
   The city has more tourism the last years because we have the best in Greece and one of the bests in Europe motordrome. It's not for F1 but they want to make it. We 'll see. The fact is that people love motor sports here. The result of this is more hotels, resorts and spas have been built the last years.
   There are a lot of restaurants and the food here is really good. In some other Greek towns, islands and Athens is not so good. In the center of the city there is pedestrian zone with many shops and trademarks who are in all over the world. The prices? I think they could be lower but it' s not so expensive like touristic places.
   There are some museums also. The archeological museum, some other folklore museums, museum of natural history and some very beautiful monasteries. Visitors must go to Alistrati 's Cave also.

   Well if you want more information just Google it. I put some pictures i 've found on internet through Google. I hope you will enjoy. Some of them are from http://www.trekearth.com.

THE TICKET

Wow!!! Long time to post something here, huh? Well i am very happy 'cause finally i have in my hands the ticket for AC/DC concert which is gonna take place in Athens, Greece at the Olympic Stadium on May the 28th at 9:30 p.m. Take a look people...

It's gonna be a good party this concert. It's the fisrt concert of AC/DC in Greece and of course is gonna be sold out like all concerts of BLACK ICE European Tour. That's for sure. Now i must wait for the big day of May.
Gotta go now folks... I promise to post more often. You 'll see...