{"id":7477,"date":"2004-04-30T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/30\/bigger-europe\/"},"modified":"2006-03-11T21:29:07","modified_gmt":"2006-03-11T18:29:07","slug":"bigger-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/30\/bigger-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigger Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/thumb-20040501-eu.jpg\" alt=\"\">Tonight Cyprus joins European Union together with few other countries.   This is a huge historical event. <\/p>\n<p>Suprinsingly, there is not that much of a celebration in Cyprus.  All TV channels broadcast the same concert by an aging Greek popstar in Nicosia.  Not even a bit attractive.  Only the Sigma channel manages to show the concert better than it can be in real life.  Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>I assumed there will be some photo opportunities outside with concerts, fireworks, and crowds.  I was wrong apparently.  I&#8217;ve found only one hang out in Kanika area, where they had something similar to a stage with a couple of rock bands playing.  It was so horrible that it was actually a bit good.  There was no sound, just noise, and there was no light, just a lamp.  All my photo enthusiasm was gone in a second.  And it was getting further with each other second.  When midnight struck, music stopped, speakers said something like &#8220;Welcome to Europe and a very good night&#8221; and people started to get off.  Not much fun.  There was not that much of a crowd either.  Just a few groups of teenagers below 18.  And no fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe next time.  Oh, wait&#8230;nevermind. :)<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Tonight Cyprus joins European Union together with few other countries. This is a huge historical event. Suprinsingly, there is not that much of a celebration in Cyprus. All TV channels broadcast the same concert by an aging Greek popstar in Nicosia. Not even a bit attractive. Only the Sigma channel manages to show the concert &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/30\/bigger-europe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bigger Europe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2422],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11426,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/25\/whitesnake-in-nicosia-cyprus\/","url_meta":{"origin":7477,"position":0},"title":"WhiteSnake in Nicosia, Cyprus","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 25, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The other day I went together with a few friends to the WhiteSnake rock band concert in Nicosia.\u00a0 It was the same venue and more or less the same setup as for the concert of the legendary Deep Purple back in 2005.\u00a0 Except that: the sound was really crap this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9225,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/11\/update-on-deep-purples-visit-to-cyprus\/","url_meta":{"origin":7477,"position":1},"title":"Update on Deep Purple&#8217;s visit to Cyprus","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 11, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Firstly, I wanted to let everyone know that I am planning to go to the concert. 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