Are there any SF members from Greece?

[politico]

Greece is my favorite country. I've seen fat old Greek men eat shirtless at nice restaurants in Athens. That it makes it the most laid back country on earth.

Therefore it's the best country on earth. Greece rules.

 

[Philip1978]

Born in Canada but my father is from Kefalonia.

 

[Simon Templar]

Originally Posted by alliswell

I'm Irish - ala h yinaika mou eivai apo thn Athinai. menoume sti Nea Iorke topa. pistevw pou o 'Balaskonis' eivai Elenas ke'alos, ke exei enos allos, ala then thoimamai to onoma tou.

thoimamai tora - o 'skalogre' einai. Sto Phoenix einai.

(forgive my Greek and my orthography - it's one thing to study the language, it's quite another to have to transliterate it into the Roman alphabet)

Bravo sou, ta ellinika ine thiskoli glossa ke ta xeris poli kala.

Gonis apo ithaki, genimenos ellatha ala monimos katikos australias polla hronia.

 

[Simon Templar]

Originally Posted by Philip1978

Born in Canada but my father is from Kefalonia.

Emathes ellinika katholou?

 

[Simon Templar]

Originally Posted by politico

Greece is my favorite country. I've seen fat old Greek men eat shirtless at nice restaurants in Athens. That it makes it the most laid back country on earth.

Therefore it's the best country on earth. Greece rules.

Smoking indoors was great too. Apparently that's changed now due to new laws.

 

[Stavros]

Originally Posted by Simon Templar

Smoking indoors was great too. Apparently that's changed now due to new laws.

Are you serious? I was in Greece for Christmas. NOTHING has changed--everybody smokes, even at restaurants (well, not at every restaurant I guess). It's pretty disappointing if you're a nonsmoker. I wonder when it's going to change.

 

[NewYorkIslander]

I'm in Bay Ridge...its Brooklyn's Astoria, and Astoria is America's Greece. I work with a ton of Greek girls at work...love the Greek food round here (4th and 86th)...but alas, I am of Southern-Italian descent, so we're just cousins.

 

[pvpatty]

Greek Australian, from Kythira.

Originally Posted by Stavros

Are you serious? I was in Greece for Christmas. NOTHING has changed--everybody smokes, even at restaurants (well, not at every restaurant I guess). It's pretty disappointing if you're a nonsmoker. I wonder when it's going to change.

I think it was meant to change last year but everyone has just been ignoring it.

 

[Michael Ay329]

Originally Posted by NewYorkRanger

but alas, I am of Southern-Italian descent, so we're just cousins.

Mia fatsa...una ratsa

 

[creed13]

Another one from Helliniko,Athens.

Polla xairetismata se olous

Giannis

 

[Tokyo Slim]

I ate a bunch of olives last night... does that count?

 

[emakris]

Here's a Greek living in England for the past ~15 years...

 

[Stavros]

Originally Posted by NewYorkRanger

I'm in Bay Ridge...its Brooklyn's Astoria, and Astoria is America's Greece. I work with a ton of Greek girls at work...love the Greek food round here (4th and 86th)...but alas, I am of Southern-Italian descent, so we're just cousins.

NYR, I've been to Southern Italy and Sicily twice, and I I was astounded by how similar Greeks and southern Italians look and behave. Northern Italy is a different story; more central European than Mediterranean.

 

[Stavros]

Not very many SF members living in Greece at the moment. I counted two: creed13 (Athens), Tarzan (Thessaloniki).

I'm actually a little surpised by that, I expected more. Young people in Greece care about their style and clothes--or at least they did until ~5 years ago.

 

[elgreco]

Originally Posted by Stavros

NYR, I've been to Southern Italy and Sicily twice, and I I was astounded by how similar Greeks and southern Italians look and behave.

That's because Southern Italy = Magna Graecia.