Greek GeoGuessr goes sideways
So I have been obsessing over GeoGuessr lately. After a few surreal experiences around the world like being forever trapped in a water park in India or stupidly choosing to take the northern route in a Swedish forest and as a result I almost reached the Arctic without a sign of life - I literally saw the vegetation change (but also including some Greek-related ones like in a Serbian city where the game dropped me first thing in front of a Greek Tourism office and then there was some Greek graffiti in another part of town for some reason and I was convinced I was in some strange Greek place until 10 minutes later I remembered Greek is not written in Cyrillic so this felt like an AU where Greece is a Slavic country PLUS me bumbing onto a theater playing Zorba the Greek in Santiago, Chile ^_^) ANYWAY I decided to play Greece for fun and potential material for the blog and BOY
Classic mode has five rounds so first round ever in Greece, GeoGuessr dropped me in
a godforsaken muddy graveyard. Nice. There was a grim village nearby and as I was getting out of it I found a sign with its name:
ΜΑΥΡΟΓΕΙΑ. Meaning BLACKEARTH. Yeah, no kidding. What a happy start.
Second, third and fourth rounds were relatively normal.
Now fifth round dropped me there.
Finally! A pretty place! I decided to go towards the mountains.
A nice way to forget GeoGuessr dropped you in a dirt road and you’re not guessing the place anytime soon. It felt like I was walking for hours trying to get close to that bloody mountain or any sign of life. After a long time and many turns through small paths I find myself in a main road.
Pretty aesthetic. But these mountains are still far away. Like, do you see the difference with the previous image? Do you get how much I have travelled? In this picture I am literally in the horizon of the previous picture.
Ahhh how beautifully the sunbeams fall on the sign AND DON’T LET ME READ WHERE THE FUCK I AM.
The odyssey of a madwoman.
This place gets farther instead of closer.
Why did the season change so drastically? Am I on the road for months?
Oh okay it’s autumn again. It’s been a full year.
ROADSIGN!!!!! I’M IN KRYONERI!!!!!!!!! Quick, let’s check where that is.
The bloody lack of inspiration in this country I swear... I have to hit the road again.
At this point I feel that if I just took the car and searched for that place IRL, I would be able to find it sooner.
This is how Frodo must have felt when he was trying to reach Mount Doom.
Op! What is this though?
Excuse me? Bouboukas? BOUBOUKAS?
You mean that I’ve spent an hour in this bloody game wandering in Kolofoni (which means glorious peak ROFL but it also sounds like “Butt-voice”) and trying to find Bouboukas (cringy masculine floral dimunitive)??? That’s it, I’m not playing Greece ever again.
P.S but Bouboukas is a cutie pie of only 24 inhabitants. Let’s give some love to lil’ Bouboukas.
PS 2: I still don’t know what these mountains are called. Didn’t get any closer and I probably don’t want to anymore. This was by far my longest round all over the world, beating the two trappings in Indian theme parks (yeah, there were two of those for some reason), beating almost reaching the North pole from a Swedish forest, beating another massive nothingness in Texas and an endless wandering in St. Petersburg, Russia where I couldn’t understand any of the road signs and labels. Unbelievable.
I love this game though - I only barely keep myself from making posts about random international GeoGuessr adventures - can you tell? XD
