July 24, 2024
animals, FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Dozens of sheep and goats were buried alive instead of being killed first as health. safety and humane treatment of animal protocols require. The animals were from a farm unit in Trikala, central Greece, where livestock was found to have been infected with rinderpest. WARNING! GRAPHIC PICTURES! According to a …
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February 19, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A shocking crime in central Greece: a 46-year-old beheaded his father with a chain saw and attempted to cut his own head. The perpetrator had also tried to dismember his dead father, media reported. It was the perpetrator himself who called the police Sunday noon, whereas it is suggested that …
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September 11, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Looting in flood-stricken areas of Volos, Magnisia, and Trikala, Thessaly, Central Greece. Police arrests four thefts, while it intensifies patrols to prevent looting. Police arrested four men on Sunday for stealing two electric devises and one bed from homes destroyed by storm Daniel. the pain, but also the suffering of …
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September 7, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Uncategorized, Very Mix, weather
Dozens of villages in the regions of Karditsa and Trikala in the plain of Thessaly in central Greece have been flooded with the water reaching a height of up to 3 meters. Hundreds of desperate people are on roof tops waiting for rescue that it currently seems impossible. Βούλιαξαν. Λάσπη …
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January 9, 2023
Economy, FEATURED
The city of Trikala in central Greece will be the first ever in Europe to pilot the use of fully automated ‘delivery droids’. The first task of the delivery droids started at the “Elves’ Mill”, delivering letters written by children from the Elves’ Post Office to “Father Christmas”. Their next …
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September 15, 2020
Uncategorized
Greece’s Civil Protection tightened the restrictive measures in the region of Attica to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The measures include the mandatory use of masks in work places of the private and public sector but also outdoors where crowding is inevitable. During the live briefing on Tuesday evening, …
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August 21, 2020
FEATURED, Social
A granny in a tavern No one can imagine a traditional tavern in the Greek countryside or on the islands without a granny helping out. I can still recall a granny outside a restaurant in Apollonia, Sifnos, preparing french fries, back then when they were freshly made from scratch. Dressed …
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July 15, 2020
Social
The body of a 16-year-old girl was found outside a chapel in the woods near the city of Trikala, Central Greece, on Wednesday morning. The body was found near to the chapel of Profitis Ilias by a walker who informed the police. According to the medical examiner who performed a …
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July 13, 2020
Turkey-GR
Residents of Trikala in central Greece vented their anger at the doors of a 5-century-old mosque as a “retaliation” for the decision of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to convert Hagia Sophia into a mosque. According to local media trikalanews, a group of citizens went to the mosque and threw stones …
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April 5, 2020
weather
Roads were flooded, homes and shops came under water, streams and rivers were overflowed and mountains were covered with snow, when the barometric low hit central and northern Greece with heavy rainfalls and dense snow falls. Especially hit by the bad weather front are the island of Skiathos, Sithonia Halkidiki …
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February 2, 2020
Very Mix
Authorities in the prison of Trikala, Central Greece, were set on alert on Saturday evening, after a drone threw parcels with drugs and mobile phones in the courtyard. The ‘drone delivery’ were destined to prison inmates. The unprecedented incident happened around 8 p.m. on Saturday night when a drone was …
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September 20, 2019
weather
Homes and businesses were flooded and motorists were trapped in their cars when the bad weather front stroke Thessaloniki in North Greece on Thursday night. At the same time, a hail fall that lasted half an hour covered the roads with millions of ice balls and destroyed agricultural products in …
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June 15, 2019
Very Mix
A drone delivered mobile phones and other items ordered by inmates in the prison of Trikala short after Friday midnight. It was the second delivery attempt in 24 hours, as the first operation early Friday morning was foiled The drone reportedly landed in the yard of the prison short after …
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February 21, 2019
Tourism
Trikala is a city in Central Greece that gained international publicity as the “Greek smart city flagship’ after a series of innovative initiatives in infrastructure and services have been implemented with the aim to make the city sustainable and offer the best to its residents: bicycles, smart parking, solid waste …
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August 31, 2018
Earthquake
An earthquake with 5.2 R rattled Central Greece and had residents rushing out of their homes on Friday morning. The earthquake occurred at 10:12 a.m. on 31. August 2018. Its epicenter is located in Argithea, especially in the triangle of Drakotrypa – Pefkofyto-Oxya. in the mountain area West of Lake …
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July 28, 2018
Sky
Blood Moon and lunar eclipse on 27. July 2018. A magnificent full moon rose from the east and put its spell on millions of people on the Earth. A so-called Blood Moon because the light of the Sun goes through the Earth atmosphere as it tries to reach the Moon. …
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May 5, 2018
weather
Hail in the size of hazelnut fell in the area of Pyli by Trikala in Central Greece and covered the roads with a thick layer of ice short before 8 0 clock on Friday evening. Motorists were about to pass winter chains to their vehicles wheels, notes local media trikalaola.gr. …
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April 24, 2018
Very Mix
The church bell rang and all the village residents rushed to prevent technical teams deployed from the Water Company units from installing devices measuring water consumption in the fist houses of the village. Water for the village of Xylopariko by Trikala in Central Greece comes from own fountains in the …
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February 27, 2018
weather
It wasn’t an earthquake that brought three houses to collapse but a landslide after days of torrential rains. Residents of Pialeia village by Trikala in Central Greece, were horrified to feel the earth moving under their feet. At least three houses of the village at an altitude of 500 m …
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November 5, 2017
Social
Do It Yourself Greek Style. You need some wooden pillars and wire? Just go to the Power Columns near by and cut them off. This is what a 43-year-old shepherd did in Farkadona by Trikala, Central Greece. He cut off two wooden columns with chainsaw, grabbed the supporting wire, stole …
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