Tag Archives: New Year’s Eve

How many friends are you supposed to have as a person? Five? Ten? Fifty? Greece’s Health Ministry believes to know better. “If authorities tally up  more people than taking into consideration at the New Year’s Eve party, they will fine you,” TV channels report with emphasis on Thursday citing sources …

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Hardly had the Greek Health Minister announced New Year’s Eve celebrations without music and closure of food service facilities at 2 a.m. and a tsunami of cancellations struck restaurants, bars and entertainment venues. “We’re done. We close,” unionists of the sector told state-broadcaster ERT three hours after the announcement stressing …

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Greece ‘s Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced on Wednesday more restrictions in restaurants and entertainment venues and New Year’s Eve parties without music. Furthermore, the Minister added that the measures against Covid-19 that were scheduled to be implemented from January 3 will go into force tomorrow, Thursday, December 30. The …

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First class live entertainment in the Emergency of the general public hospital of Mytilene on the island of Lesvos: The sound of bouzouki and drum, one after the other men and women turn their dancing rounds  in the rhythm of zeibekiko. Instead of throwing plates to the dancers, the “audience” …

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Did you hear the door bell ring at 7 o’ clock in the morning? It was the kids singing the New Year’s Carols. Yes. Because Santa Claus – Agios Vassilis – comes to Greek kids on New Year’s Eve. Children have to praise Santa so he can drop a present …

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Not one, not two, but nine incidents of robberies against children singing New Year’s Eve carols were recorded on the last day of 2011 in broader Athens area. With the threat of knives or not, but definitely using violence, unknown perpetrators robbed the children and took amounts between 10 and 100 euro. …

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