Im from Romania and I live here ... but from my mothers side I have Greek relatives ... so in 2007(when Greece was a awesome tourist destination) me and a friend from childhood and another girl I didnt know .Were off to a 10 day free vacation to the island of Crete ... we should of been like 15 people but for some reason they couldnt some legal thing ... they werent 18 or something .... (dosent relay matter) -On this "camp like thing" we were hosted at a 4 star hotel in Rethimno... with rooms of 3. -At first we were supposed to be 15 from Romania 10 from Canada and 5 from Jordan(witch is a muslin country) But this is not what happened only the 3 of us were able to come from Romania ... the Canadians bailed (rumored to b scared of the people from Jordan .... but that was just a rumor) . There were 5 people from Jordan ... a girl and 4 men ... they were a few years older than us ... one of them was actually finishing med school. So I ask u what did the organizers do to save money ? - -they take only 3 room in the hotel ... two 3 person rooms and a 2 person room ... I was thinking that the girls would sleep in one room and well be all guys in the other rooms (poker night every night was what I was thinking)
But noo ... the girl we just met on the way there didnt like the ideea to sleep in the same room with a foreigner ... (PC police wasnt a thing back then) so after insisting she was placed in the same room as us :/ ...
As I mentioned this was a camp like thing ... so every morning we would go on a road trip to visit the island.
This was supposed to be a educational thing so on one day we went to a drug rehabilitation center in the sixth or seventh day ... of-course my friend managed to score some weed ... and we found out that is was quite popular there ...
I think he bought quite a lot cuz from that moment on we were happy every day ...
And I found out the hard way a Greek custom
You see in Romania waving "hallow" in a circular motion is considered a friendly gesture.... In Greece if u show someone your palm its like showing them the finger =)) (I laugh just remembering this)
So we basically were flipping everyone off every day because we were happy to see them and none told us why they were angry ....
I mean u can try this ... at least in Create if u show them your palm they will instantly cringe ...
So long story to a brief ending the vacation ended one day sooner but we had plain tickets for the day after ...
I don`t know if they ended it because people were offended or there was some other reason ...
We were lucky we could stay with some relatives in Athens otherwise we would be screwed ... the plane tickets were on a predetermined date.
And where we stood they told us that that gesture is considered like calling someone a fag in Greace.