Greece: an overview

Just some thoughts of a few things from Greece

Crazy Traffic

Indicators are only lights, traffic lights aren't particularly obeyed. However the Greeks still maintain a decent level of politeness, they will let us cross in common courtesy.

Friendly Strangers.

You get the occasional person running up to you shouting "friend!" and asking if you might be interested in buying an umbrella. However what makes it better is when 6 of these people ask  you and its not even raining. 

When I was bartering for T shirts, I reckon we established a personal link with the shopowner which got us a decent deal of 3 Tshirts for 20 euros. I mentioned my interest in a mathematics t shirt and this got the owner talking about his own son who was working for a major in Mathematics.  This connection made the man much more sympathetic to us penniless students.

Overall, the Greeks are very friendly in my opinion - I guess they mostly were intrigued by our group - we maintained such a high standard of courtesy that a museum manager even showed us into the Museum through a secret entrance!

Streets

The streets are rather dirty - but the streets still retain its beauty as the people of the street would always welcome you, however, if it were clean - most of it would just be a shade\variant of white. The buildings were very black and white depending on how well cleaned it was.

Culture

We saw many byg,white,statues and buildings. You might get bored of it, but once you realize that you're staring at a culture spanning since 2000+ years ago, you get the idea of its magnificence. The details the ancient people could reach were astonishing.

Greece has overall made a deep engraving in my mind - friendly people,expansive culture and endless streets.