Culture Shock! First Time in Greece

As a Greek-American, Greek-Canadian, Greek-Australian or Greek from any other country such as Germany and South Africa you dream of visiting or even moving to Greece one day. You close your eyes and you can almost smell the salty ocean, hear the waves, taste the gyro... And then, the day comes when you step off that plane in Athens or Thessaloniki airport and you start spending your first few hours in Greece... that's when you start wondering: What is wrong with these people?! Here's why:

- Why aren't isn't the airport staff smiling at me? (Well, because they don't know you or they're having a bad day - every day is a bad day when you work).

- Wow, there's a lot of ads on cigarettes, alcohol and cell phones in the airport! (That's because this is where most of the Greeks' money goes).

- Gross! What's that smell? (read the rest at www.allthegreeks.com)