+ The nature is very beautiful. Different plants and animals, fruit trees, olive trees, high mountains of strange shapes, clean violet sky in the evening... Great!
+ Free camping everywhere, even under the olive trees which are in somebody's property.
+ Almost everywhere people drink the water right from the tab.
- It's very hard to deal with the Greeks when it's about something seriuos. You can't arrange something for tomorrow, it's too fast for them. The best time to do something is 'later'.
+ At the same time the Greeks are ready to help you if they can do it right now.
- Due to crisis the Greek generally don't like the Gerans and I know one German who suffers from it very much.
- The crisis does amazing things to people. The prices are two-three times higher than in Russia, and when the locals understand that I'm a forgeigner, they try to make it even higher. It is disgusting. At the same time in the bars and cafes are full of people at any time of the day, although the prices are not low.
+ Athens is my kind of city. Warm, democratic, a little smelly and dirty , with palm trees and white houses, with old and new cars, with debris, freaky streets, cats, old men and cafes. There is the sea and the sun, there are mountains and temples, long streets, neglected gardens, springs, lost grape yards and dogs. I want to live in this city and perhaps one day will do so.
+ Hitchhiking in Greece is O.K. And that's great, too.
- Really careless drivers. It looks like killing each other on the road is a greek national tradition. There are small monuments in the shape og churches along the roads, they mark places where somebody died.
+ But the roads are good, especially toll roads.
+ and - The Greeks are crazy about their traditions. If the Greeks says 'my grandpa did it this way and I'll do it the same' you almost have no chances to change his mind.....
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