The Pontian Festival 2006
The 25th European Festival for Pontian dances took place on Saturday May 27th, 2006 in the German city of Stuttgart (district of Böblingen). Our association, the newest member of the Pontian European Federation, took the decision to attend in the world's biggest Pontian event.

We who were there will never forget these fatastic moments that we had the honour to participate in, all old and new friends that we met, the dedication from ALL people on sight to make sure that our time there was as dreamlike as possible, all the wonderful musicians that made us dance throughout the nights and last but surely not least... the feeling to be part in the BIG Pontian family that our federation is!

We would like to thank...
Our association would like to thank all our dancers, dance teachers and board members for representing us in the best way possible and showed that our Pontian hearts beat herein Sweden too. We would also like to thank ALL our friends i Germany that made our stay there as great as possible.

We want to convey a special thank you to the Federation's president Mr. Giorgos Amarantidis for his personal engagement for our association, to the president of the Pontiaki Estia Stuttgart for being a great host and the Pontian association of Berlin who gaves us a lift in there bus.

Of course we must mention our special friends in the youth federation... Sophia Karipidou for her leadership, Giorgos Nikolaidis for his friendship to us, Thodoros and Vasilis Topalidis for their musical help to our dance group and Mary Tortopidou for her interest in our well being during our stay throughout the weekend and for her friendship.

And last but surely not least we would like to say thank you to the organizing commitée Christos Savvidis (and of course Elvina), Sevasti Tsavdaridou, Tassos Tourountzas, Sophia Dimosthenou, Sophia Parassoglou, Toula Sechlidou, Giorgakis Keridis, Savvas Toumanidis, Maria Pessiou, Tassos Tsavdaridis, Polychronis Vassiliadis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Leonidas Iliadis, Niki Chatzisofianou and all the others that we may have forgot to mention here!

It has been a privilege for us to have gotten to know you all and to call you our friends!

Hope to see you all our dear friends!