So as time passes by I am experiencing an all-different levels the Greek culture and so on this also happened when I wanted to hire a car. Fist off hiring a car can be cheap in Athens. For just 20 euro’s a day you can get a car, then the additional insurance is 10 euros a day. So after filling in the paper without looking at the car, you get a short explanation and then you are off to go, since there is only a quarter tank of petrol left I have to return it with the same amount…

Then after driving like crazy in Athens I notice I can really cope with the crazy atmosphere and enjoy how lively the driving is. Sometimes I get to enthusiastic and so scare off the Greeks on the road.

Yesterday during a road trip to Karystos I caused a accident and so I could experience how they handle this. I hit the mirror of a double-parked car on the main street with my own mirror. After stopping and going with a friend who knows Greek they explained to me that even though the mirror was totally broken it was okay. Probably because they were parked in a bad way and because it was not a new car anyway…

But it is nice how you will handle this without police and this is a thing I would say what reflects a part of the culture while getting the police involved would also probably comes with a lot of bureaucracy…

Independence day 2012 at Syntagma square Athens, for the protection of the government they estimated it would be the best to let +/- 5000 police officers work..

In protection of there behaviour…

as it is going now, it looks like i will be taking a part at the riot police in athens as a volunteer… this to experience the line of work and in hope to get through with my docu.

So through the people I met, I am now following up to leads towards the police in which case this will be the first major breakthrough in my documentary 🙂 lets hope it will all go well….

ill let you know

So now I am back in Athens again, this time to really work out my project and i must say the situation has changed… Where in oktober there were a lot of demonstrations now peace seems to take over, nevertheless people are scared of the future which will be uncertain for a long time.

Since I am starting with my graduation project, I wanted to keep all of you posted. During my classes I found out that i will investigate into the subject of greece…

Once determined to go, i bought the tickets and now almost dan with my first investigation into greece. My conclusion is that it is a big mess, and you could wonder how it was possible that they would ever be part of the EU. Anyway they are now and for sure there is too much going on to investigate, I should highlight just a small part of it…