Ghost memories

39 years after the Turkish invasion, an island with two separated communities, a thousand of stories,
so many of which truly tragic,
so many ruins to remind you that you should not forget.

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In almost every corner you can see the past not as a protected historic landmark space but with a great difficulty through much fear, just like in the forbidden dreams, like some nightmarish memories not letting you unsweat, even when burned by the scorching sun you still remain totally feraful sweaty even though the danger has passed, has it?

Invisible view

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Sometimes Ι am wondering if I walk through history or I just wander around my very own imagination??
A little further pass me, horns, the noise of the modern city, around me, modern clothes, modern music, but somehow in an invisible matter the elements prevail,
like ghosts

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(On progress………..)

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Forbidden

It is forbidden to walk, see, remember, of course to do pictures…….
…..(as if, the Google maps does not exist?)

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…..In the middle, memories, cheking Points, uniforms undercover and indifferent, diplomacy, strange looks, games, forces
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……..the years go by, maybe sometime soon or later, they might change the signs to follow a more modern version of the forbidden
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Summer schools

_JUL1016  Today was a very special day for me…
I was in a swimming pool in Nicosia having fun with these “unique dolphins” and their “trainer”.
I feel lucky and blessed to have met this extraordinary professional who will assist me
on my next “project” and in the process of doing that …have fun with yours trully at the same time…..
Cant wait to be in the pool again follow and play with all these wild creatures !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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No problem

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Another day with a committee, experts speak and consider, the time goes by, the institutions of the state is in order, assured we can now rest and relax, custodians will solve the problems with such solemnity the democracy works, no problem
(usually, when we hear NO PROBLEM the battle begins, dropping bombs, people run to escape…..)
I learned it in Bosnia saying “nema problema”,
I saw it in Greece saying “κανένα πρόβλημα”,
Ι hear it now and here saying “no problem”, every day and almost in every committee

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Lucky moments

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In one of the most famous streets internationally, for the check point to occupied Cyprus,
for the battles that took place there a few years ago and now on its market value,
yesterday night a young group gave meaning and sound to passers
Two bouzoukis, a guitar, great voices, vivid youth, dancing, a little beer, a little crazy and it was great, they broke the monotony and routine of somewhat fashion street

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Wasteland

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One of my childish game so many years before, was to imagine when I looked a abandoned place with damaged houses, a wasteland, the people used to live there, their voices, their lives,
Dreams full of emotionally questions without truly answers
Yesterday today tomorrow a human path for surviving

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Walking through the centuries

The whole human history there is in a museum.
The Museum of Cyprus, you in your first steps there and while you have no sooner put the ticket in your pocket, you enter the Stone Age and transferred through the time machine exhibits until the Byzantine period,
you really feel and wander on centuries heritage of this little dismayed by the economic crisis island of about 800,000 inhabitants.
What a great weapon in the hands of rulers for advertising this historical island
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Collective “bahce” garden

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Nicosia, 28 of June 2013, After two months of planting, interacting with nature, exchanging information and knowledge and transforming a derelict park into a productive garden that provides food and entertainment for humans and an ecosystem for birds and insects, the people of the Collective Bahce with music and poetry from Cyprus and the world gathered and enjoyed all together in this wonderful garden

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Part of …

With the eyes of a stranger
I see colours,  I hear silently the silence, I read on the doors about the melancholy, I’m walking in front of this colorful vitrine of the lines.
Beautiful images of forbidden memories, reminded the part of. .

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