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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Hola from London to everybody! I found today a letter which I was supposed to post in our blog three months ago but I never did. So I'm just dropping it below with no more comments. Filia
Dear Friends, Co-travellers and Brothers,
I wish you all a happy new year which will be accompanied by ever-lasting health and happiness!
It has been long time indeed! Everything has changed and nothing is the same anymore. However the epic Leiden Crew is still on the way of an undetermined route of the everlasting voyage that started suddenly few years ago without any divine force to impose it but fertilised by pure friendship feelings of beautiful and cosmopolitan people. More or less I know some news and developments of some of you. I also had the honour to meet and host some members of our heroic Crew. Marco, Peter and Julia came to Athens last summer. Maria (glykoula), Kostas, Ilias, Kyriaki and Nikos were met accidentally or after arrangement for the first meeting outside Leiden where we all grew up a year.
Marco spent a month in Greece, Peter came only for two days and a night in Athens where he declared that “Athens has the best nightlife among all the other cities I have visited”! Thank you Peter, what a declaration! We are doing our best! In ten years Athens will be the centre of amusement and night entertainment in Europe, all the city centre of Athens is now full of hundreds and hundreds of bar and restaurants with unique style and personality! Remember my words… and Peter’s!
When Peter went to Thesaloniki to meet Anna, Marco and I, together with a friend from Scotland, Matrin, we went to Mykonos for few day, then we went to Ikaria to meet Ilias and leave Martin there and pick up Ilias’ brother Nikos instead, in order to continue our trip towards the island of Paros, then to Santorini and finally to my beautiful and paradisiacal island of Anafi! I have to say this, Marco is not a nudist! Those who have talked with me already know what has happened this summer in Greece, for the rest who does not know I just have to say that those holidays were just more that GREAT and the fun I had with Marco and the rest will be very difficult to be repeated again in the future. And here I have to add something more for all of us and for our future gatherings and reunions. There is no better place to meet all together than the Greek islands during the summer! Those who hesitate ask those who have attended!
Well, all the above were supposed to be a short holiday period in Greece, just for a month, and straight after that go London were I was planning to establish my self. Fortunately, one surprise followed the other in Greece, new beautiful people came into my way and the time rolled, rolled so much that I arrived in the day of my birthday this Saturday without understanding how such a thing happened. I am out of schedule almost six months but my batteries are full of charge ja ja and I don’t regret of course, the opposite, I am highly grateful to 2007! The most beautiful thing though was that I lived again with my family after six years of wonders, I played with my niece and met again all my friends from the beginning.
In between, and I could not end without mentioning it, I travelled back to the Netherlands for a week. Two days in Maastricht to graduate and eventually collect my second master in ESST Economy and Management of Technological Change and Innovation and the rest to our beautiful and unique Leiden. There I found Javier, Aris, Mina, Irini, Rixt, Ronald, Masha and Devin and other friends from the past who are still leaving our fairytale. It was just great, everything has remained the same, like no time has pass at all since then, it is amazing. The same canals, the same market, the same buildings, the same people, the same bars and coffeshops, the same bicycle traffic and the same happy and beautiful people all around this striking place!
More interesting things happened but this is the price we pay when we don’t leave around. We miss each other’s life, we miss each other’s smile but we will never forget the year we spend together and the feelings attached to our hearts. Our future reunions will contribute to our will to keep having common experiences where we will have the opportunity to live each other again and live a part from our past for once more and dream the future with prosperity!
All my love and though to all of you,
Efstathios or Stathis
Dear Friends, Co-travellers and Brothers,
I wish you all a happy new year which will be accompanied by ever-lasting health and happiness!
It has been long time indeed! Everything has changed and nothing is the same anymore. However the epic Leiden Crew is still on the way of an undetermined route of the everlasting voyage that started suddenly few years ago without any divine force to impose it but fertilised by pure friendship feelings of beautiful and cosmopolitan people. More or less I know some news and developments of some of you. I also had the honour to meet and host some members of our heroic Crew. Marco, Peter and Julia came to Athens last summer. Maria (glykoula), Kostas, Ilias, Kyriaki and Nikos were met accidentally or after arrangement for the first meeting outside Leiden where we all grew up a year.
Marco spent a month in Greece, Peter came only for two days and a night in Athens where he declared that “Athens has the best nightlife among all the other cities I have visited”! Thank you Peter, what a declaration! We are doing our best! In ten years Athens will be the centre of amusement and night entertainment in Europe, all the city centre of Athens is now full of hundreds and hundreds of bar and restaurants with unique style and personality! Remember my words… and Peter’s!
When Peter went to Thesaloniki to meet Anna, Marco and I, together with a friend from Scotland, Matrin, we went to Mykonos for few day, then we went to Ikaria to meet Ilias and leave Martin there and pick up Ilias’ brother Nikos instead, in order to continue our trip towards the island of Paros, then to Santorini and finally to my beautiful and paradisiacal island of Anafi! I have to say this, Marco is not a nudist! Those who have talked with me already know what has happened this summer in Greece, for the rest who does not know I just have to say that those holidays were just more that GREAT and the fun I had with Marco and the rest will be very difficult to be repeated again in the future. And here I have to add something more for all of us and for our future gatherings and reunions. There is no better place to meet all together than the Greek islands during the summer! Those who hesitate ask those who have attended!
Well, all the above were supposed to be a short holiday period in Greece, just for a month, and straight after that go London were I was planning to establish my self. Fortunately, one surprise followed the other in Greece, new beautiful people came into my way and the time rolled, rolled so much that I arrived in the day of my birthday this Saturday without understanding how such a thing happened. I am out of schedule almost six months but my batteries are full of charge ja ja and I don’t regret of course, the opposite, I am highly grateful to 2007! The most beautiful thing though was that I lived again with my family after six years of wonders, I played with my niece and met again all my friends from the beginning.
In between, and I could not end without mentioning it, I travelled back to the Netherlands for a week. Two days in Maastricht to graduate and eventually collect my second master in ESST Economy and Management of Technological Change and Innovation and the rest to our beautiful and unique Leiden. There I found Javier, Aris, Mina, Irini, Rixt, Ronald, Masha and Devin and other friends from the past who are still leaving our fairytale. It was just great, everything has remained the same, like no time has pass at all since then, it is amazing. The same canals, the same market, the same buildings, the same people, the same bars and coffeshops, the same bicycle traffic and the same happy and beautiful people all around this striking place!
More interesting things happened but this is the price we pay when we don’t leave around. We miss each other’s life, we miss each other’s smile but we will never forget the year we spend together and the feelings attached to our hearts. Our future reunions will contribute to our will to keep having common experiences where we will have the opportunity to live each other again and live a part from our past for once more and dream the future with prosperity!
All my love and though to all of you,
Efstathios or Stathis
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