Everyday Life in Greece: The True Face of Greece Beyond the Tourist Spots
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- 🧿In this video, we take you on a journey to experience the real Greece, far from the typical tourist destinations. Join me in a small Greek town where the true essence of everyday life unfolds. From casual conversations with locals to enjoying a simple evening with friends, you'll see what it's like to live and integrate into the community as a foreigner. This is the authentic side of Greece, where traditions thrive and the beauty of small-town life shines through.
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I always feel like I am coming home when I come to Greece. I am British, but Greece is where my soul lives. This is the life for me.
I feel exactly the same!
Come home to Greece
We do too it’s so welcoming
being away from Greece for 20+ years, this is exactly what I want to come back to
the simple life is so rich in Greece 🇬🇷
As a fellow greek…I absolutely enjoyed it..that’s the life my friend
I retired to Kos 19 years ago and live in a small village. Life is so different from the UK. Yes at times tourists make things difficult but I would not move back.
Will never forget Santorini. We stayed at a small hotel, I sat out on the patio by the pool near several of the locals, the were just talking and relaxed as could be.
So relaxing just hanging out with friends. I want to take a stroll, park myself at a cafe, and just watch the world go by.
watching from Florida, USA - have travelled several times to Greece, especially Naxos, and hope to move there (at least part-time) in the next couple of years.
Always nice to see the typical Greek life. Nice video as always! Greetings from Hungary!
When I was younger all I wanted to live in the big brash fast cities and I did that in London and it was amazing. Now I am in my mid 40s this laid back lifestyle seems so idyllic and enticing.
From Australia . I have good memories visiting
Kalamata a where my dad sister lives before we went to to Rhodes Santorini’s Mykonos many years ago.im looking forward to going to Greece in september
I’m from Melbourne Australia. I pend 6 months in Greece and 6 months in Australia. Summer all year round. Best lifestyle ever.
out of curiosity can you still get Medicare in Australia if you do that?
@@Steve-xl1en You don’t get Medicare when you’re away from Australia, you need to get Travel Insurance. When you get back to Australia obviously you’re back on Medicare.
@@petert330 thanks sorry, I meant if you are away from australia for x months do you become ineligible for medicare.
@@Steve-xl1en Correct, if you’re away from Australia say you’re in Greece and you need medical care in Greece Medicare does not cover you for medical expenses in Greece. If you need medical care in Greece you can try the Greek public healthcare system, I don’t recommend it, for minor medical issues probably ok but if you have something more serious i say stay away, unless you go to the private healthcare system that is ok but it will cost you an arm and a leg. My advice, don’t travel overseas without Travel Insurance.
Hey Daniel 😊 I started watching your videos a while back because I was going on a holiday to Corfu. I wanted to understand the culture and I learned the very basics of Greek. I’m not one of the those ignorant people who always expect others to make adjustment for me. Since then, I’ve just been watching your uploads. I’m also an immigrant, but I’m in France, so it is interesting to see what others are going through. Well done for integrating so well. I have also integrated really well here in France. It helps that the French people are extremely nice and welcoming. And of course that I got off my arse and learnt French … still learning…it’s a forever job 😜 Good luck my fellow foreigner 🤩
Hello , I am watching from Ajaltoun in Lebanon
Greetings from a Filipino living in Denmark! I just felt the need to share this because I am emotional at the moment hahaha (it’s quite long)
Ever since I stumbled upon one of your videos whilst looking for information about travelling in Greece I have been happy watching them-from you showing us your mundane day-to-day life to you sharing the sublime beauty of Greece. I haven’t been home to the Philippines for almost 2 years now and seeing your videos gives me comfort and warmth. I went to Greece last month (July) for a summer vacation and I didn’t expect to fall madly in love with it. I felt very connected maybe because I see a lot of similarities between our culture that I have missed while living here in Scandinavia. I also had the pleasure of talking to a few locals because I’ve noticed that they become engaging and helpful to you when they see your enthusiasm in trying to speak their language 😁💞 Anyway, thank you for sharing your soulful videos! Please please keep it up 🙏🏽🤍💙
I love your videos, you do show us the simple real life in Nafplio, your beautiful town. Pura Vida
Daniel, it looks great! , but I smile everytime you say "tsipouro"; you pronounce it "chipouro" 😁
From Bathurst Australia...thank you for the fond memories of living and hanging with friends and relatives in the old town of my parents' Greek Island... looking forward to doing it ALL AGAIN..😊
Hey Daniel! My name is Panayotis just like your friend, I'm a musician and a guitar player as well, located in Athens. We come to Nafplio every summer with my girlfriend and we absolutely love the place! Every time we watch one of your videos, seeing our favourite spots, monopati, Arvanitia the old town, it always puts a smile on our faces! We're actually coming on Monday for a week, hopefully we bump into each other! Cheers!
Sounds great my friend, see you around 🙏
From Aravaca in Madrid
Hi, great video, I'm watching you from the states Seattle WA
I spend 6 months in Greece being a tourist but I also spend time in Yanitsa where my dad was from, back and fourth to Tessaloniki where my mom was from
Your video is very accurate of Greek life and I loved it..
🇨🇦 but currently in Greece 🇬🇷 ♥️
In 3:52 there are some German tourists passing by. We know this cause they are wearing "πεδιλο με καλτσα" (sandals but with socks! A typical German habit which us Greeks consider ridiculus but maybe there is some practicity in it, but we still see it as ridiculus and those that do this we consider a bit Got-ths-Barbarians etc we imagine them as they are still wearing those helmets of medieval period with the 2 horns to the sides χαχαχαχαχα )
😅
They wear those in Australia too 😂
@@skypink5821 I understand the practicality. It just looks wierd
As a Dutchman living in Greece i always say :
In The Netherlands (my home country) you have a rich bankaccount, in Greece you have a rich life. 😊
Στην Ολλανδία έχεις πλούτο λογαριασμό, στην Ελλάδα έχεις πλούτο ζωή.
until you need to find a job to pay your bills and feed your family or receive hospital care or maybe get your medications delivered. nothing is for free. only the heatwaves and the draughts are. it never is either or
@@h.verheijen7872 Yes, because no one in Greece has a job, or medical care. In fact, we are all dead.
Ah, it's you again. lol I should have guessed.
@@TrusteftReacts you seem to like to become very personal by showing a very sinistre mind.
@@h.verheijen7872 if you don't have an income, and you can't pay your bills, then nowhere it will be fun to live.
If "Doukie&Doukie eispraxeis" are looking for you, then surely life is horrible, no matter where you live.
And yes there's a whole lotta things wrong with Greece, mainly the corruption that has found its way in every nook and cranny in this country, but the beauty of the rough nature is just priceless.
Ah,dat is mooi gezegd. Dat is nu precies wat ik mis hier,zelfs al woon ik op een oké plek in Amsterdam. Ik zou ook graag weg willen,maar de jaren gaan tellen. Geniet maar daar in Griekenland. Good for you. Gr.Evelyn uit Amsterdam
watching from Kenya, East Africa
Greetings from Sydney Australia. Flying over next week. Haven’t been back in 20 years. Thank you for posting
Watching from NZ determined to get to Greece one day.
I was born in USA now living in a suburb of Thessaloniki. There are times I regret but at the end of the day I love it.
Watching from Hamburg, Germany. Staying very often in the messenian Mani. Maybe we'll do a trip from there to Nafplio in october
I am watching from Amsterdam. I just discovered your vlogs. Very nice to learn about the Greek lifestyle. Regards from Amsterdam🙋♂️
Congratulations! You fiound the true essence of being Greek. Shooting the breeze on the side of the street! Lol. :)
On a serious note, this is both good and bad. The good is that it's a more relaxed lifestyle. The bad is that you can end up rotting away while doing nothing with yourself.
Having lived in America and being Greek, I have a contrasting view of coffee shops. OTOH, in the college coffee shop in the states, you saw young people occasionally talking with each other, but mostly behind a laptop doing homework. OTOH, in coffee shops across Greece, a ton of young people on the streets, having fun, smoking, drinking coffee, but also... looking aimless.
Love your channel! Watching all the updates, thank you for sharing your Greek days and evenings with us 🇬🇷
I love Greece! always have ! checking in from the UK 🌿
The real country is always better than the tourist traps !
Alright mate. Good video.
I am from England.
I just finished reading Ο άνθρωπος του τραίνου. I liked it. In the book they go to Nafplio. I want to go there one day.
All the best.
South Louisiana, Greece is definitely on my list
🧿Is Greece expensive? Leave a comment below 👇
Yes. For the average Greek it is. Especially over islands. Cause the prices over islands are aimed so that the foreign rich tourists buy them and get ripped off but this habit chases people away and i believe that some day the tourism in Greece will be hurt by this mentality. Let alone the locals just cant visit the islands and the most nice places. Greeks are locked out of the best part of their country. And this is why over the years the Greeks of the inner land have developed a dislike for the Greeks of the islands especially those that occupy with tourism enterprizes. In fact we wouldn't care if the Turks would attack and pillage their islands. Noone is going to fight for them. Cause these islands feel already non-Greek. Perhaps if the Turks get them we Greeks can have a chance to at last visit them cause the Turks will probably have friendlier prices for the Greeks than those Greek-islanders have. This is our moan with the islanders that has been developed over the years.
Φαρμακείο.
@@anna45333 Have you noticed that Turkish tourists have been flooding many Aegean islands since this year, driving up prices to unprecedented heights?
Greece is certainly a lot less expensive than Cyprus, where I am watching from. I went to Athens and Thessaloniki last year and was pleasantly surprised that Athens was about 30% cheaper for things like gyros and coffee, while Thessaloniki was around 50% cheaper for things like drinks and meals. I will be in Athens and Crete next month - can’t wait!
Greece certainly is expensive and pricy looking at the overall average low family incomes. Mind you: Half of the population lives in urban areas. The national going out late for dinner suffers because of this. Except Sundays of course.
Watching from Croatia while escaping Florida heat , jumped from frying pan onto the fire
Watching from France...I like your interactions with locals, Daniel. For the average and retired local Greeks, I think many goods, services are expensives...For foreigners (most part), their income is higher.
It really depends on things like if they own the place they live or what job they used to do age of retirement ect
Also elderly Greeks tend to live in multi generations households that helps a lot
Both them and their children / grandchildren 😉
I moved from Australia to Crete. Cretans are my spirit animal 😂
Perfect
Very nice video explaining exactly how simple life can be in Greece and good job. New generations who don't have passive income from tourism unfortunately goes abroad for job opportunities . I am mentioning it cuz i saw comments below from some Greeks who live abroad and have this nostalgia... Greece is great but in my opinion, Greece u are showing us is tending to disappear. Low lvl of income in combination with inflation and other things that government should implement so that everything can work for everyone as it should, has made ppl in bigger areas very competitive and selfish.
I love the way you film and describe things, vaggelis from Halkida!
Lafayette, Louisiana. I did a tour almost 2 years ago. Instantly loved it as soon as I got off the plane. Visited Nafplio and thought how great it would be to live my life there. The food, the people. I long for my next visit. Just started watching your videos. Gonna sign up for the newsletter.
Thanks for the shoutout φίλε μου
Great little video.
I'm in kokkino nero and the big grocery stores are cheap the small ones expensive, eating out is 30% cheaper then in West Europe. Drinks are generally cheaper but some establishments have tourist prices and local greek prices if they do you buy a small beer in a can for 4 euro.
Hi Daniel, I'm following you from Romania and I find so familiar what you say about greek life.
Na Zήσεις Δανιελ ! Τέλεια η μουζηκή!
I like it. From Germany
That was hilarious that your friend did a “cheers” with the plant pot 😂😂😂 🍻 🪴 Edit: stupid autocorrect 😅
@mygreeklifestyle nice video the basil in front of the place amd on the table looks amazing. Here in Florida it’s not easy to grow basil. Please tell that man smoking and drinking chipoodo is very bad for his health. Thank you for the great memories.
I am watching from Kingston, Ontario. I will be in NAfplio in 2 weeks! I cannot wait!
Watching from Sarasota Florida US
Sidiras Merarhias is the road to the post office and the Goodys
Life is like this in small towns in Turkey.
Im watching from the UK 🇬🇧
Hello from Coventry in the UK
Lived in Volos for a year..love the small towns
4 months away from home. Can’t wait to be back
Great job... as usual. Pasalimani.
Watching from Australia. Thanks for your great content mate.
Thanks for sharing this video with us
Great video. I was there in Naplion 3 days before this was filmed and I even remember driving down this part of Asklipiou. I like some of your other videos walking along the paths in the area as well. One question - do you smoke ? If not do you find the smoking frustrating ? As much as I love Greece (8 visits) I find smoking in my vicinity during meals to be very frustrating. (there are a ton of laws limiting places you can smoke here in Vancouver)
What mezedes did you have with your tsipouro?
Or was it xerosfyri?😄
We watch from dubai ❤
If I'm not mistaken , the chap who owns this shop is from the same village as myself! That said great video I enjoyed it.
Love the videos, watching from Cheltenham, England. I love the Greek way of life, would love to move there when I retire next year.
💙MelbourneAustralia🧿
Quit fascinating to get a glimpse of your Couleur locale😃
Any idea why as a commonplace you witness in so many public places around not only in Nafplion, everyday family-minded Greeks in their numbers just keeps smoking and simply ignore the health effects. Strong habits don't easily die? I compare this fatality also to the same national habit of simply ignoring and bypassing the usage of the car safety belt by putting a key in the safety belt holderlock in the car, which you can easily find and buy anywhere from most peripteros. in which other European country do you see such things in 2024? nowhere.
maybe because smoking is a stress relief for them. a time to meditate and/or socialize.
@@chrysafis for sure! so is drinking. but smoking is a massive killer. same for number of car accidents in Greece with fatalities. sadly one of the highest in the whole of Europe
In Greece they smoke cigarettes with tobacco. I am a Greek American and live in Queens NY. In NYC, people smoke marijuana. Every sidewalk smells like pot. Every block has 5 smoke shops on it. Some are illegal smoke shops (that sell pot and other illegal drugs). I don't smoke anything. I would just like the pot smokers not to be in front of my house. Also, New Yorkers drink alcohol in little bottles and throw them on private property where people live (like my house). Greece is better.
For the same reasons that people mix depressants and stimulants together everywhere in the world. Here they drink alcohol and smoke tobacco but in other countries they might choose a different substitute for one of those.
@@wingedfire8339 seems to me most other places are better
Delray Beach, Florida
Ζωάρα κάνεις 😊
I live in Montreal, Canada and my husband and I want to retire in Greece. Just don't know where.
Yiasou from Vancouver Canada
Near Raleigh North Carolina……where is his shop
You make it sound as if Nafplio is a small town, which i think it isn't. Well, it's not Athens, but hey.. ;-)
Greece is a beautiful place to retire coming from another country.
Life outside of Athens, in smaller cities like Nauplio or others is really great and very easy going.
The country has 3 major problems in my opinion, that led a lot of Greeks, including myself away.
1. There are laws but they are not applicable,
2. Driving behavior is amongst the worst i have ever seen.
3. Corruption.
Rather than that, if you choose to bypass these, you can have a wonderful way of living.
Σε παρακαλώ πολύ κάνε ένα βιντεακι για τις εκλογές στην Βενεζουέλα.
couldn't you find this small town, casual lifestyle back home in your country?
hi mate , what job are you doing if i may ask
Are they erecting a building across from Panayoti’s shop?
Greetings from Canada
🙏
I saw the men sitting, drinking, and enjoying each other's company. Where were the ladies?
Where ever they want?
😮
Is your Venezuelan friends social media?
You only show us one store man!
Nafplio is not that small for Greece.
I lived in mayor cities, Houston, Caracas, London and Ottawa. So to me a town of 15,000 people is small. Plus, for the grand majority of my audience (foreigners) such town is small. I'll go as far to say that even Athenians consider Nafplio small and some couldn't fathom the idea of living in Nafplio, because it's small.
@@MyGreekLifestyle I know where I would rather live! it is small compared to major cities, but still a vibrant place, which we all love.
Good. But is there a place where women can sit together outside like that?
I don't really understand the question but of course women can sit like that. Greece is not, how to put it gently? , Afghanistan or something. I don't want to be offensive here.
The difference is that Daniel sitting with his friends at one of his friends (panayiotis) shop. If a woman has a shop and her friends appear and say hi how are you?, they will sit and talk exactly like Daniel.
Small town folks or villagers usually sitting around their friends shops for coffee tsipouro beer or just to chat. Especially during the summer. No matter if you are a woman or a man.
Now if you mean cafes or restaurants or bars/clubs it's exactly the same thing.
@@georgecyberpunk2891well said!
@@georgecyberpunk2891 I know that. But if I try to sit in a traditional greek Kafenion, than there are only men there and all heads turning in my direction ;-)
@@youtubeoma4113 well.. yes, but... Is there a place on earth that this doesn't happen?
Curiosity is everywhere.
Kafenion was for men (and still is) if you are talking about the old fashioned traditional kafenion. It is "strange" to see a girls company in one.
Same as seeing girls playing tavli. :)
@@youtubeoma4113 And have you ever tried to start a conversation with them? Maybe you don't know but Greeks are very curious. Where you come from, what you do for a living, and so on.
Real Greece looks to be about 72 years old…..on average
Hello
Hola 👋
I‘m watching from Vienna 🇦🇹 🖖🏻😎
Great place is Greece except all the smokers - filthy unhealthy addiction!
Our Turkish neighbours have a nice word for you, guys - "kibik" 😂
Zzz...
Frm Western CANADA, in Calgary
The most beautiful naturally country in the European continent.
I agree 💙🇬🇷