Driving

Something needs to be said about driving in Greece. In a word...crazy! I will apologize up front if I offend anyone, but it is really scary to drive here. First of all, many of the roads here are what we would call an alley and they are not marked well. Thank God we have a GPS, almost couldn't get one, but that's another story. You have to know the Greek English spelling of the town in order to plug it in to the GPS. We went on many roads that we thought for sure were just driveways to groves but were actually the roads we needed. Thankfully, the signs to the towns are typically written also in English to help you.

Another thing is that Greece is very mountainous and you must drive up and over many mountains to get to where you need to be. This means steep, narrow roads without a guard rail and you will drop straight down. Not good if two of the passengers tend to get carsick.

In order to make it driving in Greece you must drive like a Greek. That means passing on double lines even if you are too terrified to. The cars expect you to do that, and they get over onto the shoulder (if there is one) and wave you by. If you don't pass the car behind you starts honking and goes around both of you, whether there is oncoming traffic or not, whether you are on a mountain S curve or not, whether therebisnreally only space for one lane/one car. We are managing, but it really is scary sometimes.

That being said Greece is one of the most beautiful countries to drive through. Picture the stereotypical vision of Greece with the small quaint, red-tile roofed towns, groves full of grapevines, orange and olive trees, and little old ladies sitting outside their houses, and that really is what you see. It is gorgeous.