Geography
Physical and human geography through the Helladic regions. Their natural and climatic setting.
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Thessaly Flooded
Thessaly, the region I come from, has just experienced… yet another Greek disaster. Huddled together in our family home near Trikala, we waited for the… event to come to an end. The heavy rain, which began on Monday, September 4, finally stopped on Thursday, September 7. Three houses in our village were partially flooded, but elsewhere—for instance in Palamas, the village where my mother’s family is from in the neighboring region of Karditsa—many homes ended up literally underwater.
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Tríkala, city… not alienated!
We think we know Greece like the back of our hand. Yet the country—an Acropolis of a certain Europe—still holds many secrets from us. Take, for instance, Western Thessaly—the region I come from—and more specifically Trikala, the administrative center of the province of the same name. It lies in the heart of Hellas, serving as a gateway to Northern Greece for those traveling up from Athens, well past Delphi.