"Something more about greeks" Top 5 Page for this destination Greece Favorite Tip by Lilasel

Favorite thing: * To the person who doesn’t understand Greek, the loud, intense conversations may sound like arguing – but they’re not. Actually Greeks are friendly and openly affectionate. But as Greeks say about themselves: we are talking a lot, very fast and all together in the same time. :-)

* The code for indicating “yes” or “no” in other countries breaks down in Greece (as well as in southern Italy and Bulgaria). The “no” looks like “yes”: a slight or exaggerated tipping back of the head sometimes with the eyes closed and eyebrows raised.

* Everyone has his own cell phone even little children. In a city where transportation is hell and people spend hours in the street trying to get to work or soon back home, every facilitation in communication is important and highly addictive.

* All the greenery that lacks in the streets of Athens can be found on roof gardens and balconies in almost every house and apartment, building with geraniums and hanging plants. There’s a sweet sense of an old neighborhood feeling in the community of balconies. People on balconies are friendlier to each other, maybe because they feel sound and safe being few stories above the city’s traffic chaos.