One thing I am definitely going to miss about Greece is the public transport system in Athens. You can get anywhere you need to be in less than an hour. You really dont need your own car here



*cant think of anything funny to say about the metro... dammit I'm losing my touch!*

Lost in Translation

- Have a cookie. Its peanuts *heavy greek accent*
*a green cookie? maybe he means pistachios*
- ok, thanks *takes a bite*, *swallows hard*
- oh...... you mean its spinach

its peanuts = its speanuts = eets speenats = its spinach

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I love a man in uniform!

Nikki and I were in our hotel room in Hydra, we heard a marching band and of course had to investigate. We looked out the window and to my delight saw a whole lot of sailor boys passing right under our window. "Heeellllllooooooooooo Boys! Room 103!! Bring your friends!". We ran out the room to follow them and see what was going on. We were in the getting-ready-to-go-out phase and happened to be knickerless, we ran as fast as we could cackling all the way about how we are gonna call every Nicholas we know Knickerless! It turns out there was some or other church celebration they were involved in. Oh happy day we were on a little island filled with sailor boys, this is the life! We went out and drank to the Greek Navy!
so I was having me some steamy sailor dreams when I was woken up by the frikken marching band, at the crack of dawn!!! No no its not on at this time of the morning, people are trying to sleep!! *slams the window open and swears like a sailor* At that time of the morning you can shove your uniform up your bum! No actually you can shove your stupid little music instruments and your whole ship up your bum!

Night crawlers

Nikki and I were in Hydra and noticed that the tree trunks were painted white on the bottom half. But why? Nikki's reasoning? So drunk people dont walk into them at night!

It must be a sign

So uncle George and I had polished off the usual 5 bottles of wine and stumbled home in the wee hours of the morning. There is a table outside the front door, which happened to have a little tomato on it. George was convinced it was a sign and that there was some meaning to the little tomato... Who put it there? Why did they put it there? What are they trying to tell us? What is the meaning of it? It must be a sign or secret code... Damn that wine was good!

Syntagma Hot Spot

Syntagma has free wifi, with excellent signal strength by the metro, perfect for wasting time while waiting for the metro or while having coffee

The Martini side of my family is full of alcoholics

In Greece you need to turn the geyser (Thermosifono) on before you have a bath, I doubt many South Africans even know what a geyser looks like! Tsipouro is the local version of Mampoer.

So early one morning (7 frikken am early), I am upstairs and shout downstairs to Uncle George:
Me: "must I switch off the Thermosifono?"
George: "what? you want Tsipouro?"......... at 7 frikken am in the morning!!