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Kin-dza-dza
May. 11th, 2020 09:54 pmSo, it seems like everythig is gradually coming back to normal.
The stores were open today, but as the number of customers is restricted now, there were lines outside everywhere, sometimes pretty huge.
As for the schools, I've passed by two schools at about 5PM, and it seemed they are still closed. Maybe they were closed too early, but, anyway, no signs anybody visited them today.
I decided to ride the metro for the first time since the curfew started in March, and I have to say there were too little people, and half of the seats were either blocked with barricade tape or had signs "please don't use" or something like that. So yeah, not many people are using metro these days. But as for buses and trolleys, they are much more crowded than a week ago, although half of the seats is not used as in the metro.
So yeah, I'm happy I've travelled around the city with my camera right before the curfew started and right after it ended, I doubt it will ever be possible to take such great photos with no people around historical monuments, empty streets etc. This period is definitely over.
Seems like the only people who could somehow benefit from this situation are local photographers.
Aside from opened stores, returned street musicians, artists, koulouri sellers and beggars, TV crews were also pretty visible today. I've seen them on literally every intersection along Ermou street, like in the days before the curfew.
So yeah, now let's hope restaurants, cafes, hotels, historical sites and museums will be open on the 1st of June, as it was promised.
What else should I say. Tomorrow the temperature is supposed to hit 30C mark, and on the weekend it will probably be 40C. Yeah, that's right, 40C. If this will really happen, the temperature record for May will be broken, since the temperature in Athens never exceeded 37C during May.
Well, anyway, we'll see, and if it will really be 40C, I will probably go to the beach, haven't been there since March.
Also, today I've wathched the whole Kin-dza-dza movie for some reason. I don't even remember when I watched it in it's entirety; if ever, it was back in the 90's. Scrolling through comments, I've noticed I was surely not the only person watching it these days lol.
Pretty shitty movie, but probably with a huge meaning for Russians right now lol. At least they've done English captions.
Also I finally added Swedish keyboard on my computer, så nu kan jag skriva på svenska.
The stores were open today, but as the number of customers is restricted now, there were lines outside everywhere, sometimes pretty huge.
As for the schools, I've passed by two schools at about 5PM, and it seemed they are still closed. Maybe they were closed too early, but, anyway, no signs anybody visited them today.
I decided to ride the metro for the first time since the curfew started in March, and I have to say there were too little people, and half of the seats were either blocked with barricade tape or had signs "please don't use" or something like that. So yeah, not many people are using metro these days. But as for buses and trolleys, they are much more crowded than a week ago, although half of the seats is not used as in the metro.
So yeah, I'm happy I've travelled around the city with my camera right before the curfew started and right after it ended, I doubt it will ever be possible to take such great photos with no people around historical monuments, empty streets etc. This period is definitely over.
Seems like the only people who could somehow benefit from this situation are local photographers.
Aside from opened stores, returned street musicians, artists, koulouri sellers and beggars, TV crews were also pretty visible today. I've seen them on literally every intersection along Ermou street, like in the days before the curfew.
So yeah, now let's hope restaurants, cafes, hotels, historical sites and museums will be open on the 1st of June, as it was promised.
What else should I say. Tomorrow the temperature is supposed to hit 30C mark, and on the weekend it will probably be 40C. Yeah, that's right, 40C. If this will really happen, the temperature record for May will be broken, since the temperature in Athens never exceeded 37C during May.
Well, anyway, we'll see, and if it will really be 40C, I will probably go to the beach, haven't been there since March.
Also, today I've wathched the whole Kin-dza-dza movie for some reason. I don't even remember when I watched it in it's entirety; if ever, it was back in the 90's. Scrolling through comments, I've noticed I was surely not the only person watching it these days lol.
Pretty shitty movie, but probably with a huge meaning for Russians right now lol. At least they've done English captions.
Also I finally added Swedish keyboard on my computer, så nu kan jag skriva på svenska.
