A practical guide to moving, living, working & traveling in Greece, plus tips and narratives from an American in Athens
October 18, 2007 at 12:42
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There is a quartet of songs that bring me to tears, though by nature I am not a weepy person. I didn’t understand the lyrics of three upon hearing them the first time, as I understood very little Greek back then, but I believe music has the ability to transcend boundaries and touch people on many levels.
Κομμάτια/Kommatia (Pieces)
by Christos Dantis (with Martakis)
I was living near the American Embassy during this period, it was raining, and this song came on the tiny radio that was my only entertainment. By the time it ended, I’d been weeping without knowing why.
While walking alone on Ag. Konstantinou a few days later, a car pulled over and a man jumped out and popped open the hood. I could see what was coming.
Man: Hello, how are you? (as I walk by)
K: Fine. (continue walking)
Man: Wait! Where are you going?
K: Home. Bye.
Man: Wait! Do you want to go for coffee?
K: No thank you, I don’t know you.
Man: Oh sorry, I’m Vasili. And you are?
K: Kat.
Man: Great, now we know each other. We can go for coffee.
K: No, because I’m busy.
Man: Ela! What will it take?
K: I’m going.
Man: Wait!
K: No thank you.
Man: I can’t take ‘no’ for an answer.
K: Clearly.
Man: What can I do to convince you?
K: How about I talk to your friend in the passenger side, and if I like his answers, then I will speak to you again, OK? And if not, I go.
Man: OK, I’ll wait here.
K: Hi, wh..?
Man 2: (Laughing and covering his face) He’s crazy, don’t go out with him.
K: Does he do this a lot?
Man 2: No, first time.
K: And how long have you known him?
Man 2: He’s my best friend, too many years.
K: Does he have a girlfriend?
Man 2: No, not for a long time.
K: What’s wrong with him?
Man 2: Look at him, many things. (Laughing)
K: Does he have a job?
Man 2: Yes, he’s a ____ .
K: Hmmm, really? My brother is a ____ .
Man 2: Maybe you should ask your brother to have a talk with him.
K: And what’s your name?
Man 2: Yannis.
K: Is his name really Vasili?
Man 2: Oh yes.
(Vasilis is hopping around, waving, looking nervous)
Man 2: You know, he saw your face as we drove by, he said you are very beautiful, and we are going to meet you. Look, it’s very traffic. We had to drive around the block many times and almost crashed the car. He’s crazy, I tell you!
K: OK, thanks.
Man: Well?
K: Fine, we can go for coffee another day.
Man: Can I offer you a ride home?
K: No thank you. I don’t get into cars with strange men.
Man 2: Ela vre!
(Just then, “Kommatia” comes on the radio)
K: Hey, I like that song.
Man: Get into the car.
K: I think I will.
Vasilis didn’t take me home; he took Yannis and me straight to Flocafe where we were forced to have coffee. Our many and frequent protests were ignored, although I did eventually make it home safely.
Our first date was the only time any man in the world has cooked me dinner on a date, and Vasilis turned out to be a very sweet, down-to-earth person. He was brute, beauty and brains. But when his childhood sweetheart came back to entice him, he knowingly fell into another bout of inevitable heartbreak…and Vasilis and I were “kommatia.”
And did it end there? For Vasilis and I, yes. But his best friend Yannis asked me to marry him a year later, and I had to respectfully decline.
The original is done with Dantis alone and with a voice-box during the chorus.
And this is the live version, performed with Martakis.
Έπαψες Αγάπη Να Θυμίζεις/Epapses Agape na Thimizeis
(You stopped remembering love)
by Pix Lax
Back in the day, this classic was played at clubs during the “Greek” segment starting at 3 a.m., if the overall genre was non-Greek. Everyone knew the words, but I could only listen with my heart.
I revisited this song on the island of Aegina, where my boyfriend had taken me for a three-day weekend. My friends were back in Athens, and I was sad that I couldn’t see them during this short visit from NYC — we always clubbed on Friday and Saturday, which of course lasted until Sunday. As a surprise, they all hopped on a ferry and met me in Aegina.
After dinner and first drinks, we went to a beachside club with plush sofas, drank, danced like there was no tomorrow and gazed longingly at the sea. We then hopped over to Elliniko, which was ironically an American rock club. Like clockwork, this song came on at 3 a.m. and we all went crazy, sang the song together, sobbed and danced together in a closed circle with our arms joined at the shoulders. When it was over, my friend Nick looked at me and said, “We always have more fun when you’re here.”
It was one of the best nights of my life.
I miss you, Nick.
Το Σ’ αγαπώ/To S’agapo
(The ‘I love you’)
by Michalis Hatzigiannis
Hatzigiannis’ song is the only one I could understand, and the only song associated with a relationship. For those who know the lyrics, they refer to myself and my choice to leave, thus closing a long chapter of my life and beginning anew.
Greek National anthem
by Dionysios Solomos
In February 1998, a young woman from California set foot in Greece for the first time after celebrating Carnival in Venice. It was winter, she was alone, and it was Sunday in Athens.
Vassilis Sofias closed to traffic to make way for a contingency of evzones going to Syntagma Square for the official changing, all stomping in unison, all staring straight ahead, all wearing hand-stitched uniforms steeped in historical meaning with sleeves of flowing motion. The band announced their arrival, two men deemed “the best of the week” were threaded from the group by a senior officer to “allagi” and the national anthem began to play.
While colors of blue and white waved gracefully in the wind, and I gazed upon the dichotomous marriage of young and old, modernity and tradition, present day and historical past, a powerful surge of emotion came over me, though I’d never heard the music or knew its lyrical poetry before this moment. Tears fell uncontrollably. After the evzones had turned their heads in honor toward the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, they left the square to the triumphant tune of “Evzonaki.” This was the day I vowed to make Greece my home.
For years, I made a point of going to the square every Sunday or visiting on the last Sunday during visits to Greece when I was living elsewhere against my will. But I stopped this ritual because it became impractical, although the experience is still relevant to who I am and what I feel. There was no one who cried harder at the Athens 2004 Opening and Closing ceremonies, and the same wave of emotion that came over me 10 years ago is ever present. I have no explanation for it. It just is.
So say what you like about me, call me names, swear at me, tell me I am not welcome here and to get out of Greece. It’s nothing I haven’t heard a million times before, and I don’t care. A deep-seated part of me will always love Ellada, and she and I have been — and will always be — inseparable.
But the day to bid her goodbye is on the horizon, as some loves are not meant to be together. Some grow stronger when they are apart and longing, some loves are pulled back by the forces that bind only when other forces are pushing away, and some can only grow in perfection in one’s heart when the realities of daily life are no longer eating away at the soul.
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I cried while reading “…But the day to bid her ‘goodbye’ is on the horizon, as some loves are not meant to be together. Some grow stronger when they are apart and longing, some loves are pulled back by the forces that bind only when other forces are pushing away, and some can only grow in perfection in one’s heart when the realities of daily life are no longer eating away at the soul…”
It is so perfect what you wrote….so perfect…I thank you.
I am back in the States now.
Stavros wrote @ October 18th, 2007 at 19:16
Katinaki,
Funny how music can bring us back to a time and place associated with the first time we heard it. I think you once referred to yourself alternately as an American and a citizen of the world. That may be so, but your soul is Greek. Some of the best Greeks I know haven’t a drop of Greek blood coursing through their veins, yet they put the rest of us who claim our Greekness by accident of birth to shame.
Posts from the heart are always our best ones, aren’t they?
Kostas wrote @ October 18th, 2007 at 20:31
Ela Kat, I keep telling you that you are Athina reincarnated (yr soul was born here!) and this is your country too, but you don’t believe me! Anyway, how you can feel this with everyone always saying you’re not Greek, you know nothing and don’t belong here. Its sad. Good for you that you are leaving, bad for me, bad for us. 
Filia
xristina wrote @ October 18th, 2007 at 20:43
All your posts have always made clear that you love Greece. Whether people do manage to live in Greece, try but need to leave, or would never dream of trying, love for Greece, agaphi ki erota, always binds us. Its problems wouldn’t be so infuriating otherwise!
Evangelos wrote @ October 18th, 2007 at 20:53
If you are touched by the Greek national anthem, it’s because you perceive Greece more as a higher state of mind, an idealised place of the imagination, similar to the ideals that Solomos had for Greece when he transcribed the anthem lyrics. You should feel privileged Kat because very few Greeks still perceive Greece this way, most of them are demoralised by the harsh realities of the everyday Greek life, forgetting that Greece works better as an idea and less as an organised state or as a geographical country.
yiannos wrote @ October 19th, 2007 at 08:41
Kat, i just lost a bit of respect for you. crying to Greek songs? that is the living, breathing, definition of C-O-R-N-Y. however, i’m willing to give you a second chance because i like you. 
You mentioning the Greek national anthem brought back another memory as well. Years ago, when I lived in Glyfada I used to listen to the US Military’s Armed Forces Radio (1584 on the dial in Athens, and 1485 in Kato Souli) and every night at (was it midnight or 1am), the US Air Force announcer from the American base at Elliniko would say goodnight and preface that by playing the national anthems of the Republic of Greece and the United States of America. I enjoyed each one while laying in bed waiting for sleep to come.
Ioanna wrote @ October 19th, 2007 at 17:45
i was doing university stuff and google pass me to your blog.
kommatia is probably the most beautiful greek song with such touching lyrics i ‘ve ever heard. reminds me of so many things in the past. its nice that someone feels the same way too about it though this song was never really noticed by others here in germany.
thank you for sharing your live and your experiences in freaky greece. i grow up in germany still studying here and i just know life in greece just during the holiday time in summer. i feel like a stranger always when i am there but i am going to move back to greece after i am finishing studies. some things i read here sounded so familiar to me.
anyway
have a nice day
greetings to athenz
=)
Kristie wrote @ October 21st, 2007 at 19:42
I just recently came across your site. I just love the graphics you have on top, its really beautiful. I think that I will be coming back here (I have already bookmarked you!). Looking forward to more from you!
PanosJee wrote @ October 21st, 2007 at 21:11
You have an amazing site and a deep insight into our little land that is not paradise usually, unless you look for it (usually in places where not many greek people are ) I am really moved that you chose to stay here despite all the problems and sometimes even I do want to leave specially after dealing with TEVE and FPA and so on… or rude greek people and so on but I when I rest on the beach with friends drinking ouzo or going to concerts of Thanasis Papakwstantinou, I change my mind.
Trina wrote @ October 22nd, 2007 at 19:47
I am a huge Dantis fan. Kommatia is great, but the one that always gets me is To Domatio.
Thanks for the site. My husband and I are contemplating moving to Greece. The information and opinion you provide have been invaluable!
The first story is lovely! But the music doesn’t touch me. De gustibus…
(From K: For those who don’t know Latin, this is the beginning of a phrase translated to English meaning, “there is no accounting for taste”)
Dino wrote @ October 31st, 2007 at 23:59
Kat, as far as I’m concerned…you are more Greek than a born and raised in Greece Greek. Greece is not just the whitewashed houses, sun washed beaches, and the Parthenon. Greece as you know is billions more things…and it is hard country if you understand me. Greece is 50/50 — you either love it or leave it. When people come face-to-face with the harsh and different realities of this country, they either leave or embrace it for what it is. Because Greece is beautiful chaos!! And you chose to stay without complaining and embraced all that is beautiful about it, and to me that is a real Greek. Remember, it was Aristotle who said that a Greek is not the one born in the narrow geographical borders that make up Greece, but the one who embraces and assimilates to its culture.
I am in the US (San Francisco) right now for studies, and you have no idea how much I am longing to come back!!!!
I will be in Athens in January. Maybe we can go for coffee…but I promise I wont sing “Kommatia” — even though i like it too!
I like these from Elytis’ Axion Esti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGQLuclvFjc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QVbC0ZeKu4
Glad to have found your site via technorati. I’ve linked.
Herete
S
Jo wrote @ November 14th, 2007 at 06:51
If only you knew how many times I’ve started “answering” one of your posts but never actually submitted any comments; all I can say now is that it’s too bad, as we may have gotten to know each other sooner…. Oh well, better late than never, right?
En tout cas…. Kat, I want to thank you for this site. I used to come across it often whenever I’d try to google any info of a more practical nature on Greece, but I’ve since learned my lesson and now come directly here! Most other information that’s provided is often outdated, if not confusing, unclear or contradictory.
I’m sorry to hear that your stay in Greece will be coming to an end, and it saddens me even more that a person with as much love for ANY country as you obviously have for Greece has been “pushed” away and forced to make such a choice…. It also scares me to see how much you’ve tolerated over the years (sorry, I’m still thinking of yr landlords); it seems that Greece kept throwing you lemons, you’re STILL making lemonade, and yet…. reality got the upper hand.
I myself am a first generation Greek Canadian contemplating moving to Greece in the very near future. I’ve wanted to for a long time now and have somehow always felt more at home while in Greece (and I’m not talking island hopping). I recognise the “powerful surge of emotion” you refer to quite well; in addition to it, I randomly get overwhelmingly nostalgic for a country in which I have never lived and that I know for a fact is full of problems and will most probably never provide me with the orderly ease of life I have grown accustomed to in my neck of the woods. Nonetheless, I dream of living there; in my mind and my heart I’ve always associated Greece and greekness with history, myth and the overall wealth of its multifaceted culture, all of which Greeks are proud of yet take for granted. Greece has so much beauty to offer and provide inspiration that one only needs to sit back, soak it up and enjoy it to the fullest. I regard this as one definition of Quality of Life just as much as any other. It seems the ability to “work to live” can only be appreciated once you’ve had a “live to work” routine that is unfortunately all too familiar in N.America.
Most people I know (Greeks and Canadians alike) think I’m crazy and then proceed to list all the difficulties I will most likely face; many of your posts confirm them. It’s even harsher that I can already relate to your (mis?)adventures more often than not, and this just by visiting; as a Greek of the “Omogeneia”, I am also regarded as a “3enh” and even made fun of to my face under the assumption that my language skills aren’t sharp enough… Isn’t that enuf to make anyone feel welcome?
In any case, my point at present is that your site is God-send. Your articles have hit home more than once and I find the overall site to be both informative and insightful, not to mention reassuring (something abt having all of this centralized and at your fingertips really does it for me). I haven’t yet organized myself for a move, I’m still a little chicken (can we say comfort zone?) but considering the fact that I quit here, I’ll be snapping out of it ASAP. By then, the magnitude of what I want will most likely have hit me and I will probably have loads of questions.
Until then, I just wanted to give you a shout out (you don’t even need to publish this, I just wanted to send you a message), say hello, cheer you on (though I’m sure ppl show you their appreciation daily) and thank you again. I just hope that I will not, one day, also be forced to face reality and change my mind abt living in a place I already consider home.
Pros to paron, as elpisoume na mhn er8ei ayth h mera. Pisteyw ki elpizw na ta 3anapoume.
Geia sou. Filakia polla kai na prosexeis.
spyros22 wrote @ January 8th, 2008 at 17:03
Very Very nice site
Congratulations.
Spyros
I ll put it in a blogroll
This is great. Thanks for posting Greek music. Feels like home.
Eleni wrote @ January 26th, 2008 at 15:31
Hi! I found your site by accident, looking fir something else in Google. I am 24 years old and I study in Aristotle University (Thessaloniki).
I just wanted to say “THANK YOU” (for loving GR so much) and “SORRY” (for the inappropriate behaviour some Greeks show to you). In my mind you are more Greek than I will ever be.
You know, it is said that “Greece eats her children”. And, sadly, there are times that this is quite true even for born-in-Greece/having-Greek-origin people.
If you ever need anything, or even decide to come north, feel free to contact me.
Sakis wrote @ March 14th, 2008 at 08:14
Hello, i came upon your blog by accident today, just browsing around and i must say i love your entries. Nice to see you are touched by these greek songs. There are so many great greek singers i would recomment you check out -many of them have touched me- so here are some singers i think you should check out : Melina Kana (she has some very touching songs), Savina Yannatou (she sings in so many languages too), Theodosia Tsatsou (she’s a greek who grew up in Australia), Eleni Dimou (the list could go on and on) I think you will like them. Cheers from NH, Sakis
Donna wrote @ March 28th, 2008 at 18:03
I am listening to the four songs……and they make me cry too!!!
George wrote @ April 12th, 2008 at 03:48
Kat, great pics for the top 4. I am happy that you acknowledge the national anthem, many Greece-born Greeks (including myself, to be frank) would not add this in their top Greek songs unfortunately. I listended to each one and may need some tissues soon!
Pix Lax: very soulful music, ESPECIALLY the song you mention here ; )
Xatzigiannis: I also like him, though I prefer ‘mono sta oneira’. I first listened to that song at a kafeteria in the Athens Airport the day I left to Australia for studies, not to return in 6 years!! So yes, inievitably that is sentimental for me
Dantis: Has become a bit of a rezili (disgrace) lately in my humble opinion. Kommatia is timeless
Songs by Mitropanos (about Thessaloniki, my home city) and Pasxalis Terzi, I would have to add to the ‘always cry’ list. And this is a Greek guy admitting this ehh? hehe
Some other gems: (though don’t always make me cry, that is important as I can save tissues, things are VERY expensive lately here in Melbourne!)
‘To filaraki’ (‘the dear friend’) by Remos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6RAbwaQ7e8
‘Dinata dinata’ (’strongly, strongly’) by Arvanitaki (I had the good fortune to watch her live in… Monterrey Mexico while living there temporally and can assure you it went off!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H_qi2y7_xo
Dimitris Basis – I Zwi (‘Life’)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOn6rKaocvc
Giorgos Dalaras singing in Spanish for some inexplicable reason moves me
‘Una moneda le di’ – (‘I gave him a coin’)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igtzkQasTsw&feature=related
There is a song by Anna Vissi (99 or 2000). It is called ‘Ela mwro mou kai pes s’agapw’. It is mostly in English. Cannot find it in UTube nor Last.fm. If anyone can find it, please post I would appreciate it much.
Kat, thanks again for the blog!
Tania wrote @ May 13th, 2008 at 09:23
Kat I just had to second what GreekAmerican(no longer in)Greece wrote:
[I cried while reading “…But the day to bid her ‘goodbye’ is on the horizon, as some loves are not meant to be together. Some grow stronger when they are apart and longing, some loves are pulled back by the forces that bind only when other forces are pushing away, and some can only grow in perfection in one’s heart when the realities of daily life are no longer eating away at the soul…”
It is so perfect what you wrote….so perfect…I thank you.]
I LOVE that paragraph you wrote!
As someone who loves Greece and is passionate about it, I am also glad I live somewhere else and get to visit it and really enjoy it on my own terms without the ‘realities of daily life..eating away at my soul’ (to paraphrase you slightly). I guess though my view of Greece is not the reality then because only by living somewhere can you truly ‘know’ it. Unfortunately it is a two-edged sword.
And perhaps Terzis’ song ‘Zito I Ellas’ would fit with this blog entry too? 
I also cried buckets at the opening and closing ceremonies – my partner (born in Greece) thought I was crazy Glad to find someone else who feels the same way as me.
Hi Kat,
I came accross your site by accident, and I need to tell you how sorry I feel for realizing once more that the infamous “Greek hospitality” is becoming an element of the long past; and how surprised I am to read that an American woman managed to connect herself with the original Greek spirit, feeling Greek herself! Too bad that you are leaving Greece, I really hope you can keep this connection alive forever. Not many Greek people feel or act as Greek as you; not many of us even understand the meaning of the national anthem lyrics. Shame.
I wish you all the best for your future endeavours.
Kind regards,
Christina
Iosifina wrote @ May 16th, 2008 at 21:35
What a wonderful, wonderful blog you have. I love your choices of music (I too am moved with the Greek national anthem!) and the Greek citizenship info is invaluable! Bravo! I’ve been married to a Greek for 38 years and find each year more and more interesting. I’ve never been bored–always something new to learn with the language, the culture, the food. I’m sorry to learn you may leave Greece; your insight is unique. Take care, gal.
-Iosifina
I love your site. I discovered it by accident because someone visited my site and sent me an e-mail about a Greek song called ‘The Cat’. I was googling it and somehow your site came up and I have been wandering around ever since.
My Greek is bad too and I am half Greek. But I read Seferis every day and every morning I take a long walk around Carrboro, NC listening to Kazanzides, Dionyssiou, Savopoulos and other laika and try to understand as much as I can. One day it will click I tell myself (for 20 years)
You don’t have to post this. I just wanted to say hi.
Matt
Hi Kat,
Great site thank you, being a non Greek EU citizen who is married to a non Greek non EU citizen and living-working-loving Greece.
(Been here 15years, been married here for 5years).
I only wish i’d found your site a couple of years ago, we got through it (the paperwork) but it was like being blindfolded and earmuffed! wouldn’t want to do it twice.
We live to tell the tale and are still living and Breathing our beloved Greece
As for Kommatia it gets me too……music is a soul thing, i can weep over a guitar chord, language is irelavant.
Notis Sfakianakis “To Tragoudaki” i weep
In 40+ years living in Greece, your site is the first time I’ve had so much useful info in one place. Thanks for the songs.
mari wrote @ November 3rd, 2008 at 16:21
i love your site –
i’ve been listening to your top 4 songs (that make you cry)
…and tears are running through my eyes
i am waiting for the day that i will be brave enough to move to greece -
yes!
hugs,
mari
Asteri wrote @ July 28th, 2009 at 19:18
I just wanted to say what a great blog! It’s so cute how you think you’re Greek!
Meli wrote @ July 29th, 2009 at 03:14
Kat (Katerina) –
Your Blog resonates with me. My odyssey began in 1980, when I came back after traveling the year before, to pursue something different than what I was used to, having grown tired of the “scene” in Ann Arbor. So after the “kaimakitzis” that brought me back to Greece and I broke up, I decided to pursue living and working there. Having Dual citizenship helped in the work permit process and being American, I was highly in demand to teach American English…and so it goes. Now I have my own Ellenopoula and my 19 year old wants to be in Greece working and studying because for the first time she finally felt like she was where she belonged!! (her first adult visit) sooo…
I’ll visit often-
Thanks
say hi to my baby-he’s the cutest one you’ll see on Doiranis (Kypseli) near the bakery.
Athina wrote @ December 26th, 2009 at 21:51
What can I say, I feel nothing but deep shame for ourselves for making someone like you feel unwelcome. We have no excuse.
I love my country to pieces but when things like this happen it cuts me deeply. I really hope we’ll find our humane selves again soon.
Emma wrote @ May 7th, 2010 at 04:53
Well, I personally wouldn’t cry over any Greek song and never have, although my sentimental idiot distant relatives in Greece do (long story, can’t stand them)! But, when I was in Greece I do remember a few songs that “spoke” to me, i.e., that I liked to listen to over and over again, and still do – Eleni by Anna Vissi, Ola Kala kai Ola Oraia by Dalaras and Then S’afino by Giannis Parios.
Other than that, the rest I found corny, sappy love songs which didn’t at all do it for me. I kind of got a kick out of the funny songs though, like “Fiye Stella kratao maheri!”! Stuff like that would make me laugh, as did some of my experiences living in Greece. Now, I’m soooo glad not to be there.. Saw this coming a long time ago and would tell people too, only no one listened.
foto wrote @ June 23rd, 2010 at 17:21
………….what the hell…….
all i have to do is hear “sagaaaaaapooooooooo…sagapoooo giati is oraaaaaaaaeeeeeeeaaaaa……..” and i break…
…..lady gaga nothing!……
…I love that you all write with meraki…and with great openess…I hope the athenians are enjoying late night serenades around irothou attikou… aeraki sto sounio……opou sas vri!
vouksis wrote @ June 25th, 2010 at 19:05
Dear Kat,
I just wanted to say that I stumbled upon your website 3 days ago and absolutely love it, especially all the funny personal stories. Please keep them coming if you have some time to spare!!!
I can say that in a way I understand how difficult but also rewarding living in a foreign country is. I am a Greek that has been living in the UK for the past 6 years, first as a student and now working. The transition from Greece to the UK hasn’t been easy and needless to say that the UK is much better organized country than Greece (I could also use the word civilized but I’d rather not) and I had lots of financial support from my parents in a typical Greek way.
I cannot even begin to imagine how difficult it must have been for you to deal with the Greek bureaucracy and working conditions all alone, especially when Greeks themselves many times can’t cope. I would also like to tell you how ashamed I felt every time I read about a Greek telling you to “go home” or making a racist remark against you. I’d like to believe that during all these years that you have lived in Greece you also met kind and polite people instead for all those j@@ks mentioned in your stories from time to time.
My best wishes to you, and I hope you have now moved out from that flat with the problematic fireplace (still living in Greece?). I will be visiting your website regularly from now on.
Kostas
PS sorry for posting it here but I couldn’t find your email address anywhere, tried to register in twitter but couldn’t figure out exactly how it works so I could send you a personal message.
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Kat Reply:
October 18th, 2007 at 19:58
Ela Stavro mou! – I don’t know if anything about me is Greek, but the emotions I experience are unexpected and catch me off guard. It doesn’t matter how many times I hear the anthem or how often I see the Athens 2004 DVD, it’s the same reaction. When I was in my “surge” stage with Greece, a lot of people thought it was a good idea for the GNTO to hire me to promote Greece; after all, who better than a non-Greek to rave about a country she’s not ancestrally connected to or from? But… Thanks for coming by and making a comment today! Mou leipeis!