Greek summer is here. Now what?

Greek summer began with a lovely weather and temperatures up to 34 degrees Celsius. Reason enough for the people Greeks to flock to the beaches and thus on a long weekend due to the religious holiday of Pentecost on June 1.

I personally took advantage of the circumstances to relax, go out with friends and stay away from news and posting on my website. I had a horrible week trying to fix some urgent issues and spent hours fighting against the Greek bureaucracy. when I return homed at 7 o’ clock on Friday I was psychically ( I had had to walk up and down the stairs in two public buildings several times), I was starving and felt physically and psychologically exhausted.

When I walked into my home I went straight to my PC and ordered all the chicken items the McDs had on the menu. Ops! And a medium French fries. After I washed all these down with a huge Coke I said to myself:

“Fck it! I will never work again! I’ll throw myself on the couch and do absolutely nothing or go out of home until next Tuesday or the end of June, or the end of summer, the year or the end of my life.”

At 10 I was sleeping on the couch which was waaay too early for my daily habits of around 2 a.m.

Anyway I was up at 7 on Saturday with my soul to have found some balance.

I had a typical long lunch with friends by the sea and the same I did on Sunday.

After years I found out it’s more refreshing to start the day with music than with the news on TV and internet.

The country keeps falling apart – ops! sorry, I’ve said that several times before -: young and old have become very violent as they are frustrated and angry and see not way out of their misery and taxes that poisons their soul, owners of small neighborhood stores have lost respect to their loyal customers and try to cheat wherever they can.

Next to the OPEKEPE, other scandals break out each and every day, and the mysterious increase of minister’s assets are being published on social media. No conventional media report about them.

Politics has become the usual joke ahead of the parliamentary elections, ruling New Democracy has got cold feet after the return of ex PM Alexis Tsipras and the new party of Maria Karystianou. The whole public discussion is limited to these three parties, who will win the elections, while the Left -SYRIZA, Tsipras, New Left & Co- is wasting its time with inter-party discussions and struggles that have nothing to do with the citizens.

At the same time, pensioners complain that tier pension covers expenses until the 15th of each month and the same is being heard by young employees on less than 900 euros net, when one cannot find a home to rent for less than 500-600 euros. Better off are youngsters who work mostly part time but still live with their parents.

A recent survey found out that only 50% of Greeks plan to go to vacations this summer due to the financial situation.

And then you have this clown of a health minister who keeps on blaming “leftist Greeks” for being “miserable” despite the sun in the country, while people in … Sweden are happy even though there is hardy sun, the weather is not pleasant but foggy, rainy and cold and nights are too long in winter.

He insisted he can’t understand “the miserable Greeks” when they go to a hospital or have education free of charge.

The man who can claim it’s sunny at 3 a.m. doesn’t take into account that in hospitals are financed by the workers’ social contributions, many vacancies of specialized doctors are empty and that a normal citizen next to the sun also needs food and money to pay for utilities.

PS On the bright side, I bought my first tablet (I refuse to do so for many years), I started, rebooted it and set up everything by myself 🙂 Note: I bought it two weeks before Easter but had it charging on a chair in order to let it get used to my home’s atmosphere.