Blabbercamel

Athens is the capital of Greece, a city with half of the population of the country.

Dry, windy and full of mountains.

The people very friendly, even if they try to raise the prices whenever they can, I needed to haggle to lower the prices on everything. Very proud for the 2004 olympics less on their historic heritage and monuments (that’s because they have seen the monuments since birth, but the olympics gathered over 16 million people to a country of only 12 million)
My regret is that I didn’t have the time to visit the city properly, work took precidence, the only times that I managed to go to the city were an eventful encounter (see previous post) and on friday night, but I was too late and tired to do anything. (I’ll post the pictures in the gallery soon)

The few things that realy struck me were

• EVERYONE speaks English, I mean people in stores/shops, in the streets, everywhere! all movies are in original language subtitled in Greek.
• Yellow taxis are everywhere - very cheap, but you need to ask the driver for the amount BEFORE getting in.
• Bikes and scooters are more than cars

The city/country/people reminded me of Lebanon, the food is similar (desserts as well) the only exception is that they use and put the Feta cheese on every dish, the poeple look and behave like Arabs, and the city is like the old parts that you may find in Lebanon and in Cairo.

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