Greek guys are a bit macho and rude.
From A trip around Europe in Athens, Greece on Sep 29 '06
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So we arrived in Athens and we had to take the metro to go to our hotel. THe first thing I like is that the name of the train station was a bit diferent of the name written on the map. So we were not sure that it was here but we decided to get out. Fortunately because it was there. We went to the hotel and when we enter inside the room it was just horrible. THe wall were not painted. There was no air conditionning (and it was quite hot at this moment, the door did not arrive until the floor and there was a big space???? It was just horrible. I went down to complain but we could not have anything else. So we decided to have a revenge (sorry we are still quite childy) and we did not put the toilet paper in the rubbish (In greece they do not have a mechanism of epuration) but directly in the toilet. SO we were relaly hungry and we went to the Mc donalds. (sorry but at this hour we were really hungry and we did noot want to find for something) We had a nice greek experience. We were doing the queue and as we were stand up waiting a fat greek guy came and went really close to Fran's Back. You know the reputation of the greek guy (gay) Fran was surprised and turned up. Fran moved a bit and the guy went before him on the queue. He did the same for me and I had the same reaction. And we went before me. The waiter of the mc donalds was taking the order of another client. THe fat guy started to speak to him (i guess he asked for a burger) and throw him a 1€ coin. I was so surprised. HE was so arrogant. THe waiter did not look a t the guy he took the ocins and put it way and kept taking the order of the other client. After with all his tranquility he went for a burger and gave it to the fat guy. I think he was so calm because he is used to this kind of behaviour. So after we had a good mc donalds. We decided to walk a bit in Athens street.
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We were really tired and we went to the hotel directly to sleep. The day after (it was sunday) we went to visit the monument on the morning. We went to the famous Acropolis and the way and view was nice. We were lucky because we did not have pay (every sunday it's free). There was a lot of people but it was nice to see it. We did not think that it was amazing because it is just ruins. We found there Hercules' cat (see pictures for explanation). After we went down to visit some pantheons and we found turtle on the grass. It was a bit starnge because there was no water. We went after to see the guardians and when they change of turn. (this is really touristic) and after we went to Hercule temple (which was free as well.) After we did not know what to do. We were really tired so we walked a bit and went to the flee market to found some gift for our families. After we went to the hotel to have a rest. We decided to go to the restaurant on the night and we found a nice place with the view on the Acropolis. We had a nice lunch with a bit of turist price but it was a nice dinner with another bottle of nice wine. THe day after we had our largest travel. We had to take the bus to go to Petra to take the boat to go to Bari to take the train to go to Roma.
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