Autumn for… the rest of the country, winter for the mountains of northern Greece. That is where the first snowfall fell, earlier than usual and found the movers breeders and their flocks at high altitudes due to smallpox.
Due to the smallpox, the breeders have not yet received the green light to come down to the “winter” so that the winter was found in the summer pastures.
In the mountains of Samarina is Vasilis Anthoulis with a few thousand sheep that today feeds between snow.
“We usually left for the pastures of Thessaly at such a time … We started on foot and in fifteen days we arrived,” he tells epiruspost.gr.
This year it is still on the mountain and most likely the animals will be loaded on trucks for moving.
“We have dawned on snow and now, at noon almost the temperature is at three degrees below zero,” he notes, expressing his anxiety about the difficulties caused by the weather in the mountain.