Hello all my devfriends και όλοι οι Έλληνες φίλοι μου!

First of all I'm proud to tell you that I came out as the winner of 's photo-with-a-song contest!!! Out of 88 submissions my FLC III made it to the final 10, and I won the final 10 poll with just two votes of difference in the end (at one point I lead with 8 )
This is the [link] to the journal with the other winners. I say thank you to all of you devfriends who voted for me!!
A special thank you goes out to ~MCMITS for telling me about the contest!


Second news is that last week I had 6 exams...pfff
4 exams on Greek language (which went better than expected, except for grammar, I don't know if I passed that)
1 exam on Europe's violent 20th century for history, which I should have passed and
1 exam on the philosophy of science, which I screwed up...this means that the coming two weeks I have to study like hell for the the second chance, which is on 26 June, a day before I leave to Ireland, which is the bridge for my third part of news, my summer plans!

so first I'm going cycling in Ireland with trekking bikes and a tent with my girlfriend from 27 June to 12 July. That way I will be back right in time for the North Sea Jazz Festival taking place in my hometown of Rotterdam 13-14-15 July. Then, about a week and a half later, on 24 July I will go to Greece after an abscence of two years!!! I will arrive in Athens 24 July and will leave from Athens 22 August...I really can't wait to be back in greece again... aman aman (~sNapaRt, you can laugh your ass of now )
So, for all of you who live in Greece or will be in Greece during that time, I look forward to meeting you, if you do too, then send me a note for making contact. The only part that is really sure about my stay is that I will be in Ikaria on dekapentaugoustos (15 august for non-greek speakers) and that I will stay some days in Athens and for sure will visit Syros. Kalymnos is high on the list too, as is Andros. I'm not sure yet if I will join 's festival in Souflí north of Alexandroupolis upon the Evros river, because getting there from the Cyclades will take at least four days of my time with return...I might also end up visiting my beloved Chios once again, or even Naxos...
And of course...if any of you is so friendly as to let me come over in Athens, I'll be delighted to visit!

Loipon, so, I'm really looking forward to my holidays...and especially on meeting some of you if possible!
Χαιρετίσματα/greetings from dense, humid, hot and thundering Amsterdam...!

Θωμάς Νοικοκύρης (greek version of my last name)
Thomas

Να ζήσετε!!



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