MISCELLANEOUS DEBRIS FROM GREECE
Sometimes on long ferry boat or bus rides, the novel you’re reading just won’t cut it. So we sometimes are forced to just note quirky things for entry into the blog at a later date. Here’s some of our ramblings…
Famous people or friends/family we have seen the likeness of in locals-
-Luke Perry from Bev Hills 90210- Marko on Anafi
-Leon Eglezopoulos- man on boat in Corfu
-Phillip Rascoe- employee in restaurant in Kastraki
-Cathy Dasigenis- employee in restaurant in Kastraki (Cathy’s Greek too, we should have asked if they know her!)
-Hugo Arellano- - employee in restaurant in Kastraki
-Albert Einstein- man in campervan in Zagoria
-Eddie (the cat, RIP)- at least ten of the hundreds we have seen roaming the streets.
-Dook (the dog)- Athens
-Toby (the dog)- Naxos (same teeth and everything!)
-Aristotle (the philosopher)- Andreas in Athens
-Ray’s brother in “Everybody Loves Raymond”- man on Corfu ferry
TOP 5 GREEK MALE NAMES
5. Costas
4. Spiros (Ionian islands)
3. Marko
2. Ianni/Yanni
1. Niko/Nikos
TOP 4 ANSWERS FROM A GREEK TO A QUESTION ASKED BY J3-
4. “Ten minutes”, the answer when we ask when something will happen (bus, ferry, etc) no matter when the event will really occur.
3. “No, but we have Moussaka!” (in response to “Do you have stuffed peppers & tomatoes?” FYI- the two are nothing alike. They really push the moussaka!)
2. “Blahblahblah” (after J3 ask “poso kani” or “how much”. We know how to ask the question, but don’t know enough Greek numbers well enough to know the answer to the question!)
1. Ochi (no)
MISCELLANEOUS RULES IN GREECE
- No smoking on buses or indoors on ferries, unless you are the driver or an employee.
- Most rooms have air conditioning. But if the owner decides it’s cool enough outside, you don’t need it & will not be provided the remote control for the A/C. Or, when in Athens, the A/C may be set for a minimum 25 degrees (78 degrees F) so that you can’t set it on freezing & open the window to smoke a cigarette & blow out the A/C compressor. Of course, they have taken the liberty of deciding for you that 78 deg F is cool enough. By the way, you of course never find any of this out BEFORE you have moved in & spent an hour unpacking all your bags.
- The bus schedule is absolutely correct…unless it changes.
- A tilting back of the head once means “no”. Sometimes it’s just a mere raising of the eyebrows.
- “Ne” (pronounced ‘nay’) means “yes”. “Ochi” (pronounced similarly to “okay”) means “no”. Isn’t it obvious that so much of other languages has come from Greek?
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