Today, myself and Annie tried a double act with 22 students from the Universität zu Köln. They picked us up in their bus from Grevena, and we spent the day passing through our usual route in the Vourinos, with a couple of stops along the Pelagonian margin. Apparently the students had been drinking heavily in Kozani the night before, and had got into a fight, so they all looked pretty tired.I'm not sure whether it was typical of these university students, but very few of them appeared actually engaged - I was surprised by how different they were to the average Cambridge Earth Sciences student. Eventually mine and Annie's enthusiasm, and the quality of the stops rubbed off on them, and by the last stop (the Langadakia Sheeted Dykes, which I took and explained on my own) most of them seemed to have warmed to the Vourinos. We were applauded off the bus back in Grevena, in spite of none of us having any food all day (both myself and Annie were very glad we'd bought Bougatsa (Greek Μπουγάτσα, Turkish boğaça) before we left.
It was very cold that night, dropping to about 6 degrees. An amazing difference to when I had arrived in Greece (39 degrees). Easily solved though - we soon used up a bucket of kindling to make a fire.
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