This one headline sums up the mood as Greece rings in 2022
Basically, the equivalent of watching fireworks with all the crack and pop, but minus the color.
In other unsettling if less consequential news, a boutique hotel that we reported was slated to open late last year has not yet flung open its doors as planned — however, the signature restaurant is open to rave reviews (you better like fish!) and we’re told the linguistically defiant Xenodoxeion Milos (xenodoxeion is the very Greek word for hotel) will begin welcoming guests very soon. See more here.
On a lighter note, this is how that relic of another age—no, not the Parthenon, we mean Facebook—automatically translated a post from Greek minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis, the Minister of State and Digital Governance in the Cabinet of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, check it out:
The “Union of the Ranked Maniacs”…hmm, in that case shouldn't the folks pictured around the Christmas tree be members of Congress? Whatever: Facebook is officially dead, at least according to the Union of the Snake.