Hi Everyone,
I've spent a lot of time living in cities these past four weeks -- we rented an apartment in Athens for 10 days and another apartment in Chania on the island of Crete for one week. Living in the city has been different than living at home. My Mom says some of these things are different because it is a city and some of the things are different because we are in Greece. This is what I've noticed:
1. All the stores open at 8:00 am and close at 1:00 pm (they say 13:00). Then they open back up again at about 5:00 pm and close at 10:00 pm or 12:00 am!
2. You have to dry your clothes in the wind because they don't have dryers here.
3. Basically everybody speaks four languages -- even the kids!
4. The church bells ring every hour (and wake me up in the morning).
5. Basically everybody trusts each other. What I mean by this is that you can leave your door open and be gone for as long as you want and nobody will steal anything (people will leave windows or doors open -- I've seen it!)
6. You eat dinner at about 8:00 - 9:00 pm. One night we went out to dinner with a Greek family and dinner didn't START until 10:30 pm -- I was up until 1:00 am and got VERY TIRED.
Bye,
Nicoletta
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