13:21. Athens to Thessaloniki, the train looked circa 1950. This look was endemic in Greece, that shabbiness, of age and over use. Like the bestsellers in the public library, all covered in thumb prints from to many eager paws. It doesn't have to be like this, paint works wanders, as does effort.
Maybe its because the Greeks really don’t care, or maybe it because they are just a little poor, but I have a sneaky suspicion that it might just be lazyness. In buildings, windows that aren’t fitted properly, door frames that aren’t quite straight, exposed brick work. The buildings are shells, complete at 97%, and look like they have been built with money but no care.
Maybe its because the Greeks really don’t care, or maybe it because they are just a little poor, but I have a sneaky suspicion that it might just be lazyness. In buildings, windows that aren’t fitted properly, door frames that aren’t quite straight, exposed brick work. The buildings are shells, complete at 97%, and look like they have been built with money but no care.
It might just be the fashion of the times though. But if fashion is a sign, the Greeks, I think are behind. Stone washed jeans with large pockets on the rear. Jackets with too many zips and trainers that would only be worn to and from the gym. The men wear the wrap round sunglasses of the late 90s the women boots that I don’t think ever had style. Its all opinion of course, and Im not famed for a fashion conscious eye but I do know you cant start trends, or even be part of it you don't try. Which I suppose is pleasant enough in itself.
And of the Greeks I met and I had met several they seemed not to try, a reclined look on life, that is admirable and also contemptible. My host left half an hour late for work on the day I left him. He said it wasn’t a big deal. The shops all close at three. A girl I had met at the beach party told me she never brought tickets to festrivals as it would raise her expectations.
She would just sneak in instead. Something I wish I could do but never would. Its a nice quib, about paying raising expectations, but with no payers there would be no festival.
On the 13:21 there were Greeks who hadn’t brought their ticket and were getting fined. Why bother to make make all this effort not to pay. The Greeks have just been lent 32 Billion by those savers of Europe "Ze Germans", the Greeks I spoke to said they didn’t want to pay any debt back.
32 billion Europes is different to rail and festival tickets, but what do I know it could be like the marbles, we all no they are never getting those back. In Greece I noticed they love the collective but are obssed by the individual. The dichotomy means that they operate with the benefits of none.
She would just sneak in instead. Something I wish I could do but never would. Its a nice quib, about paying raising expectations, but with no payers there would be no festival.
On the 13:21 there were Greeks who hadn’t brought their ticket and were getting fined. Why bother to make make all this effort not to pay. The Greeks have just been lent 32 Billion by those savers of Europe "Ze Germans", the Greeks I spoke to said they didn’t want to pay any debt back.
32 billion Europes is different to rail and festival tickets, but what do I know it could be like the marbles, we all no they are never getting those back. In Greece I noticed they love the collective but are obssed by the individual. The dichotomy means that they operate with the benefits of none.
The communists are still here too, my host I think may have been one. I saw their KKE hammer and sick al graffitied on walls, and posters, there was a Branch building in Ominia. I don’t know if they are the cause or the result of the attitude; this determination to not pay. But I do know, the revolution is never coming, the only certainties are death and taxes and Greece, a wonderful place would be better if they learned it.
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