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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Surprise street parade

Copyright 2011 Jan
Tonight I stumbled to a street party in the middle of Athens. There where hundreds of people dancing on the street and parading from Syntagma towards Thisio to a big party, as a dancing "police" girl next to me shouted. 

Copyright 2011 Jan
The sight was surreal. All of the sudden there they were. Tens of people playing rhythm with big drums, one big group of marching people dressed as a police squad with cucumbers as batons and some people with urban circus costumes. 

Copyright 2011 Jan
People on the streets were stunned by tempting dance rhythms and everyone had a big smile on their face. Some people were taken by the party feeling and started to follow the crowd. The parade danced the night away and Monastiraki was soon back on to its silent holiday strolling mode. 
Copyright 2011 Jan


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