Traveling to Greece

Hi all, this is my first post to this group. My church is taking a
tour to greece and Turkey in December and I'm just wondering what I
can expect. How tourist friendly are they? IE American type food,
public restrooms and how are they? English speaking? ANY help would be
much appreciated.

"Alexander Arnakis" <invalid@address.none> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 1 May 2007 11:44:36 +0200, Marianne Kristiansen
> <mixelite@************> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:50:56 GMT, Alexander Arnakis wrote:
>>
>>> (They have a kind of radar to identify "foreigners" -- I think I gave
>>> myself away by wearing khaki pants. No local Greek wears khaki pants.
>>
>>LOL
>>
> I think I have to amend my comment about khaki pants. In Crete, khaki
> pants are worn as part of the local costume -- but only if they're
> khaki *riding breeches* worn with riding boots. (But an actual horse
> is rarely part of this picture.) The rest of this traditional outfit
> is a black shirt, and a black Cretan "mandila" (a crocheted head
> scarf, worn so that the fringes hang down over the forehead).
> (Needless to say, this is strictly a *man's* outfit.)

Sadly it's years since I last saw the proud sight of a Cretan in this
wonderful gear.

Henry.

> Remember that many decades ago, before they had toilet paper in rolls,
> people in Greece used cut-up newspapers stuck on a nail, in the
> toilet. Sure, the toilet will stop up if you flush wadded-up newspaper
> in it. That may be where the myth got started.

This was not only in Greece. My grandparents used sut-up newspapers
stuck on a nail in their outside toilet.

Greecemad

> About the paper/no paper discussion; I asked a friend who lives in Greece
> and she said "Do _not_ throw paper into the toilet!".

There many varieties of the sign "Do not throw paper into the toilet"
in Greek public toilets. Very often they call it a toilette, which is
French, not English. The best one I saw was the one which read
something like "Do not throw anything into the toilette unless you
have eaten it first".

Greecemad