Riding the waves in southern Athens
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Surfers brave the chilly weather to take advantage of unusually big waves in Vouliagmeni, on Athens’s southern coast, on Thursday. While winds reached gale-force in many parts of the country, they swept in from the south and helped push up temperatures from the 0-Celsius region. [Pantelis Saitas/ANA-MPA]