Greece - Top 10 Things I've Learned About Athens After 2 Days

1. The greek words for yes and no is a source of much confusion. Yes is actually "Ne" (which, when spoken, actually sounds like "No"), and No is "Ohi" (which when spoken, sounds like the french "oui"). Use your imagination and visualize the chaos :).
2. Restaurants have their very own touts (for those of you unfamiliar with the term, a tout is a person who extols the virtues of whatever it is they're trying to sell in hopes of pressuring you into buying their goods. They can be quite forceful).
3. There are regions in Athens where there are simply NO WOMEN. Either we stumbled into a very dangerous neighbourhood, a very gay neighbourhood, or some combination thereof.
4. There are a lot of gay men around Athens (not that there's anything wrong with that)... but I think it is in some way inexorably linked to observation (1).
5. You know those movie scenes where some guy is having dinner in some exotic outdoor alleyway/terrace with a beautiful woman and the streets are romantically lit by candlelight with lights strung alleyway with vines and trees draped around them? Well as it turns out apparently all those scenes are shot on a street called Lissiou in the Plaka district...
6. Giant aloe vera plants have run wild and taken over Athens.
7. Athens has zero electricity problems judging by the way they light up the freaking Acropolis at night.
8. I like greek coffee (I typically hate all coffees... and Katina thought greek coffee was the most disgusting coffee she ever tasted. Go figure).
9. No matter how nice and friendly the hotel staff is, it doesn't mean you can't open your room cupboard only to discover a leftover stash of beer, hard liquor and other half finished drinks left over by the previous tenants.
10. Doing cocaine lines in the middle of an alleyway is no big deal.