„Clean Monday“ - the flour war in Galaxidi, Greece, 19th February 2007

„Clean Monday“ - the flour war in Galaxidi, Greece, 19th February 2007 The festival is called Clean Monday and it marks the start of 40 days of Lent until Easter. Hundreds of people have taken part in a flour fight in the village of Galaxidi in Greece. Around 1,500kg of flour is used in the battle. It gets its bright colours from the food colouring which is added to it! Cleaning up the sticky mess afterwards is a different matter - officials say it takes weeks to wash the coloured powder off the streets and buildings. NIKON D200 18 mm Normal 1/180 sec at f / 6,7 ISO 400