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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Hajo on May 13, 2007, 12:53:15 PM
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I remember a few players of Aces High living in Greece but alas I have forgotten.
Anyway my Nephew is coming to Greece shortly. He has been invited to come and help design a new resort at the Southern most Island of Greece (I've forgotten the name). He is an Urban Planning Engineering Student from the Univ. of Cinn. They do the studying on the job. He has worked in Baltimore on the Waterfront and elsewhere. After his job is done designing in Greece he plans to take a 3 week tour of Europe. I don't have his itinerary as of yet but his Uncle Hajo wishes he could go with him.
Anyone from Greece can you tell me what to expect? I'm interested.
Thanks!
Hajo
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Not from Greece but I have been there quite a few times. One of the best places in the world in my opinion. I spent almost all of my time on the mainland though - the islands can be a bit touristy.
What to expect?..... Beer served in McDonalds - although eating in McD's is for chumps when the local cuisine is available. Coming from England I found the cost of living over there to be low. A huge dinner would cost the equivalent of $4 however, I was there pre-Euro so that kinda price is probably out-dated. Alcohol is cheap too.
The girls.... Well.... Be careful here. The girls are really friendly. The guys are very protective of them though.
What else? Weather... Hot but not humid. It starts hitting 80 around April and doesn't let up until late October.
Lots of history around the place, obviously. Also, many, many English speakers.
I'm jealous. The one thing I miss, now being in the U.S is traveling around Europe.
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Ive been to rhodes does that count lol,
its like a half day cruise from tel aviv
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Thnks for the info gents.
My Oldest Nephew is going to Italy May 22nd to June 28th he;s visiting with his Masters Class Rome, Florence, and Naples.
My other nephew his younger Brother is going to Greece on June 11th. His first stop is Athens....then the Island of Santorini to work on a design for a resort there. Then he is traveling to Rome, Barcelona, Paris, and at this time Munich is kind of iffy.
Any tips would be appreciated!
Thanks!
Hajo
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Originally posted by Hajo
Anyone from Greece can you tell me what to expect? I'm interested.
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:rofl :rofl :rofl
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Forgot to mention something rather important....
When you go to the bathroom, you don't flush the paper, it goes in a bin by the side. Old Greek plumbing can't handle it.
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Yikes. The Olympics must have put a strain on the plumbing. All thois steriods etc..
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Originally posted by Hajo
I remember a few players of Aces High living in Greece but alas I have forgotten.
Anyway my Nephew is coming to Greece shortly. He has been invited to come and help design a new resort at the Southern most Island of Greece (I've forgotten the name). He is an Urban Planning Engineering Student from the Univ. of Cinn. They do the studying on the job. He has worked in Baltimore on the Waterfront and elsewhere. After his job is done designing in Greece he plans to take a 3 week tour of Europe. I don't have his itinerary as of yet but his Uncle Hajo wishes he could go with him.
Anyone from Greece can you tell me what to expect? I'm interested.
Thanks!
Hajo
Hey Hajo, I am from Greece. Sounds like he is going to Crete. You should expect him to wake up hungover and hate him after he tells you his women stories. lol, are you asking about safety? worse think that could happen to him is that he gets too drunk and gets too brave lol.
Tinman, that is true only if you rent an appartment in a 200 year old house. That is the case in the islands since they try to keep the old towns.
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I'm not but I saw both movies.
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lol I live in Cincy Hajo, I wonder if I've ever run into him at the bar scene.
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Sounds like Crete he's going to. I was there in '01 on a trip w/ 2 Classics professors and was on the island for 4 days. Beautiful place. Heraklion totally blew me away.
I also got to play golf on the only course on the island (one of only 3 in the entire country, lol). Rented a wedge and a putter from the front desk and off I went lol. We were supposed to go see an old Venetian fortress that day, but the weather was perfect, and my professor being a golf nut decided we should "take the afternoon off." His wife rolled her eyes, walked away and 3 of us and my prof teed it up. Great day it was.
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Dedalos LOL thanks!
Stang....if you ran into a 6'4" Blonde kid weighing about 260 might have been him. He was All-Ohio Offensive tackle a few years back. He is on Scholarship full ride at U of Cinci Academic. He dint want to play football in College.
Thanks for the information!
Hajo
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Originally posted by dedalos
Tinman, that is true only if you rent an appartment in a 200 year old house. That is the case in the islands since they try to keep the old towns.
It's been like that wherever I went. Like I said, I stick to the mainland and the most recent trip was to Gerakina where I stayed in a modern hotel and still had the dual language "don't flush the paper" sign.
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Greece is beautiful. The people are wonderful and when the sewers get blocked they back up all the way to Athens:p
Just stay away from the pissed up Brit hoards.:aok
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I’m a not quite sure what exact info you want about Greece, but since am from Greece and live in Athens, I’ll try to give you a brief note.
Beware off
I) Taxi drivers in the Airport. If they see that you a first timer here (But just to be fair with them some of them and not all of them) they will (probably) double-charge you. So try to be cool and make sure that it is not your first time here, witch means that you already know about the taxi prices. But there is also a train that he can gets you to center with low price.
II) Pedestrian crossings. We do not always stop
III) Driving in Athens. Madness
Other than that there is no other reason to be anxious off, but prices are relative high at least for us who lives here. For instance a Frape in a good cafeteria has a range price from 3 to 5 Euros. Santorini is wonderful place and your nephew is going to love it. The temperature here now its about 30 to 35 Celsius, so it hot but the humidity is low. If he stays in Athens for a day or two he has to visit Plaka and eat Souvlaki, (this is a classic tourist attraction) and as for night he can go to the summer night clubs near the sea side, (near to Glifada, Elliniko suburbs etc) but he has to know that the face control is relatively strict.
If you need any additional info I will be very happy to give you.
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i ussed to work for Princess Cruises, in the summer '"97, we had few mediteranean cruises,been in Santorini,Pireus(Athens) , and i got drunk with ouzo,
Tell your son to stay away from that OUZO poisson, my hangover lasted longer than Star Trek series
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Hi, my names Kenickie
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Originally posted by PanosGR
... but he has to know that the face control is relatively strict...
Anyone else stumble on this part? ;)
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Note to self...when in Greece if you drop something into a bathroom garbage can by mistake...leave it there.
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i spent a few months on Allonysos (sp?) beautifull island with crystal clear water.
greece is amazing and beautifull, but yes, the women are protected very sternly by thier brothers and fathers.
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Panos thank you very much! I laughed at the Pedestrian remark "We do not always stop". LOL I'll be sure and tell him :lol
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Originally posted by zorstorer
Anyone else stumble on this part? ;)
lol, yes.
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Yo Hajo!!
Been to Greece several times, both on vacation and work. Once in '98, then again in '01 and twice this year. Seen Crete, Piraeus (Port of Athens) and Santorini. I absolutely love the country. Food is great and so are the ppl. The prices are a lot higher now than they were pre-euro. My favourite place would be Crete, been to several places there. Athens is just too crowded. And as far as the crossings go, it's true. You congratulate yourself every time you've crossed a street and find yourself on the other side in one piece. Heck, even the stray dogs wait for green light before crossing.
There are ferries from Piraeus to Chania and Hiraklion on Crete a couple of times a day. Slow ferry to Chania leave at 9 pm and arraives at 7 am. A plane from the airport in Athens to chania takes 40 minutes and costs around $700, well worth it. There are 4 or 5 a day I think. My recommendation would be to go see Crete, Athens IMO is like any other big city, Crete is not like any other place I've been.
And if your nephew ever comes to Sweden, I'll show him some nice blondes to bring home to his uncle Hajo!
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My old squadie airterrier was from there . Don't know if he has a current sub or not now :(
Nice people if the all like terri , warf warf :) little doggie
:rofl
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yeah, terrier is a cool guy. If I dont remember wrong is is living in Rhodes the small but beautiful island not far from Turkey.
I saw sombody mentioned souvlaki, that is a "must" and get the local drink with it too :) (dont remember the name of it now but it burns ...)
I'm pretty sure he will have a very good and nice stay down there.
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Originally posted by B@tfinkV
i spent a few months on Allonysos (sp?) beautifull island with crystal clear water.
greece is amazing and beautifull, but yes, the women are protected very sternly by thier brothers and fathers.
Bat, sounds like you've seen too many movies.
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no way man, my friend Jan and I got into some very bad situations just by looking at girls from the island. luckily jan is 6'2" and made of solid Polish muscle or i would have been screwed. have you been to Allonysos?
the greeks were alot of fun, we ended up running the bar and music in a small night club on the island after meeting with the old age owner in an amusing incident involving a mo-ped crash.
i still have dreams of the rock faces 60ft high that we could jump off, and the underwater caves jammed with everything from sea cucumbers to painfull to stand on black urchins.
why the heck would anyone watch a film about greeks, 300 has screwed that up for a while? :)
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uzo mmmm israelis love uzo lol tastes like licorice