Red invasion

Still bleary from a night with troubled sleep, I went to the window to look at the sky. It was the same as the days before. Reddish, gloomy, dreary. The Sahara dust keeps haunting us, hiding it's glorious blue colour.

I shouldn't be ungrateful though. Nafplio is in a much better condition than other parts of Greece, as I hear from friends living in Crete or even Athens.

I chose the old town for my morning walk. No hazy horizon, no dull sky but a lot of beautiful buildings and countless bougainvilleas!

Those thorny ornamental vines seem to be a "trademark" of the town. You can find them almost in every little street, in every corner, in every alley.

And flocks of people walking beneath them :)

The tourist season is now open. Not in full but no more lonely walks in empty streets. I'll have to wait for the next winter for some more of those!

But people are not bad, not in small doses. For photography I mean. They give a point of comparison for the grandness of the bougainvilleas :)

All that red flowers above the streets remind me of Christmas decorations, only in a more natural way!

Old couples enjoying their retirement, young couples cutting school, solo travellers with their suitcases, housewives with their grocery, businessmen with their phones, we have it all in our narrow, scenic roads!

And groups of tourists with their guides, of course :)

I don't know how this bougainvillea thing started but they are now invading in every part of the town and apparently in all my pictures :)

OK, I am the one to blame for that last one, as I made the decision today, to focus on this red invasion and make a post out of it.