GWA

Rob and I have an acronym we like to use while living in Athens to help us cope with a country that is disorganized at best. We call it GWA = GREECE WINS AGAIN. Anything that would be easy outside of Greece, yet is needlessly complicated in Greece is considered a GWA. For example, we made three trips to the cell phone store today to reactivate our phones. I could go on and on with examples, but my point is that this entire week is turning into a GWA. Most of you know that Greeks like to strike in order to make their feelings known, but it seems like this week the entire country is going on strike. Here is a list of everything on strike for Thursday:

• Transportation- Strike lasts 48 hours. No buses or metro.
• Archaeological sites and museums throughout Greece- 48 hour strike.
• Corfu prison officials and staff- (Glad that isn't on our island itinerary!).
• Court officials and judicial employees
• Hospital Employees- (don't get sick today)
• Lawyers
• Local gov't employees-This means that garbage will not be picked up until October 19. Only 7 more days to go. 

There are major strikes planned for next week that include air traffic as well as ferries and ships. Our vacation plans will need to be altered because of the ferry strike. I think we're going to stay only one night on Tinos before moving on to Mykonos. We will be "stuck" there for at least three days until Greece goes back to work next Thursday. :) GWA.