Greeks.
Never met a grumpy one.
Always happy, so laid back, beautiful woman, and fiddling their taxes is a national hobby
Fully agree.
My wife and I have spent a lot of time throughout mainland Greece and many Islands, probably about a year in total.
Never once have I had a bad experience with any local and only good ones.
We may have been lucky due to the fact that when they asked where did we come from and we replied with Australia,
their response was always similar and replied to us " Oh Australia, my sister, Melbourne " etc and more often than not,
they would join us when the restaurant had slowed down somewhat and plied us with many free drinks of Ouzo or Retsina
and chatted with us for hours.
As far as the taxes go, we were making our way back to England to sell our Kombi van and were on a ferry to Brindisi and
I had noticed so many Mercedes cars were driving on to the ferry which was a bit unusual as mostly on the ferries it was
predominantly trucks carting food etc.
Whilst we were sitting on deck with about eight backpackers having a beer, a Greek man strolled up to us and asked if he
could join us. He asked us where we were all going and so I told him our story and asked him the same.
Switzerland was his reply.
It was only mid November and thinking to myself that it was a bit early for skiing but said to him " are you going skiing?
No skiing f**king, Bank f**king, all people here going bank f**king.
It then dawned on me that it was now the end of the tourist season and all the summer takings was indeed inside all
those Mercedes.