Just returned from Galaxeidi after the Flour Fights that happen every year on the first Monday before the lent starts. This year was on the 19/2. As I wasn’t planning to go there this year I went quite in a rush and didn’t have time to organize it well. And what can you organize when you wake up on Monday at 13:30, because you have slept at 7:00 and the Flour Fights start at 14:30?

Because some people have asked me for details about the fights I decided to make Galaxeidi a bit more famous from my blog by explaining what it is.

Galaxeidi is a harbor town and a municipality located in the southern part of the prefecture of Phokida in Central Greece.

The weapons for the fight are flour and a special tinted colour ingredient mixed together. The fight starts officially at 14:30 when all visitors are asked to move to a special part of the village that is the “peaceful” part if they don’t want to get painted. After it commences, the people participating start coming down the main road of the village

and concludes at the small port of Galaxeidi

Some people decide to stay in the war zone but protected by the tents of the shops that they stay

while other decide to leave early and find out that they have to pass through the war zone because they don’t know the roads there

and others when they find out that it was a bad idea try to convince with many ways the rest not to paint them

And you always end up in black colour and very drunk