Blowing in the Wind

The long awaited cold front has blasted through Greece, burying much of the country under snow and closing roads, airports and ports. With Force 10 northerlies whistling through the Aegean the wind chill has dropped to well below freezing in many places and even Rhodes reported snow last night. It has also snowed on Santorini, Mykonos, Naxos, Andros and Tinos and the last two have been without electricity since yesterday. More snow if forecast for the Cyclades, Dodecanese and Crete in the course of today and it is still snowing in Attica and Evia.

Greek television has been so wrapped up with snow reports and footage of Syntagma Square buried under drifts that the newly announced independence of our Balkan neighbour, Kosovo, has passed relatively unmarked. The other news item which has also found itself bumped into the sidelines and which should be receiving far more attention than it has so far is that Tassos Papadopoulos has lost the election in Cyprus.

Today's photographs show one of the almond trees in my garden which is rapidly losing its blossom in the freezing wind, and the view from the Symi Visitor office today - clear, cold and blue!

Regards,
Adriana