The issue almost all the greek islands are full with tourists. the good thing about Santorini as you may know there is no sand beaches its a mountain Island not much clubs, its a romantic destination, so you have quite and short staying tourists. and if you get a place far from the hotels area it is very nice to stay in Santorini, my first visit i went with my girlfriend we stayed at a hotel the next trip stayed at a friend's place different experience!! i enjoyed my stay even more.
we actually drove down the coast from Athens to Sounion on scooters, stopping along the way. Then back to take a ferry from Athens to Aegina, incredible country!
I KNOW RIGHT -i live in bodrum turkey we are so close btw i can literally just swim there- my whole family is from bodrum and i think i know a lot of the food, but every time there is another dish that i didn't know. The varity of mediterennea is unbelieveable
I can't believe that you are Greek and you have no idea about the food we have been eating even my children know that and live in USA and you live in Greece and you don't know; place don't eat too much fast foods and get to know the blessings of our country who has everything that a human can eat provided from the nature for free
As a Greek I get passed when I see what vegetarian culture is in West world they make veg burger veg steak....in greece we have soooooooooo many dishes that are only plant based big kitchen of original vegetarian food
My family is cretan and this is so accurate. I love going there. The food there is made by the land. I love it. The smell,the food, the people are amazing. And also, olive oil is the only oil hahahaha
Always loved this way of life, eating as a way of connecting with everything around you, mainly people. I'm a huge fan of this sight and it inspires me to really cook. thanks
Went to Hania in Crete last year and loved it so much that we are returning same place in October this year.!! The Cretan food is wonderful, and their Terra Creta olive oil is the very best. My favourite meals were goat, lamb, and simple sardines, fried in olive oil, delish. I'm starting to get withdrawal symptoms, and i cant wait to return. The Cretan honey and Yogurt is the best in the world, and you must try it. Met loads of Americans in Hania, and they were blown away with the beauty of everything.!! Also we loved the free Raki that they give you at the end of the meals, superb.!! If we could, we would upsticks and live our lives with the Cretans.!!!
God knows, I love and I miss my little island! It's really paradise! I had to stay away for 10 years to realise how precious Crete is. ❤ Once I finish my school, I am going back! ❤❤
*The Mediterranean diet is about 80% plants,* it's not about the olive oil, which is only 2 to 4 spoons per day. The marketing of olive oil as the huge part of the Mediterranean oil is pure misleading for sales.
Take down to sitia and enjoy. Every second. It's now. I have lived there for 7 years.and had been a guest for more than 30 years it's the best place on Crete. Greeting from Henrik. Dk
Greek people have great culture. Like in every place the city people and the new generations are fixated to the common stuff brought about from globalization and the internet and lose this connection. I come from a village in south Albania and now it is transformed into a tourist village. I remember as a child, eating fruit from my grandparens garden and then going in the beach and bathing, and after getting hungry i would eat a sort of scallop from the rocks. It is a small village and i was the youngest child of one of the biggest families lets say, so i knew everybody and i hanged out with first second third and even fourth cousins. Just a bunch of kids, eating and playing through the summer. And what amazing people the villagers are(at this point were), eventhough they live through property problems whithin families (because the parents die unexpectedly, or suffer mentally at an old age so they never really divide their heritage. Then some of the children emigrate so the ones who stay try to work the whole land and... You get it.. )Still, however the circumstances, the children are never brought into these problems and that is just great. I remember sleeping at my grandmothers sister house one night, and the other night i would head on the top of the mountain to sleep at my great grandfathers house, and then at my uncles.... Amazing but now ruined from the greedy politicians and businessmen (they have most of the money) building 14 floor buildings in a village where nothing exceeded the third floor. The sas thing is that these people also originate from that very village. And people bringing fancy boats and cars, in a place meant to be enjoyed in peace instead of pointless luxury. And then most of the people behave like animals, polluting the water and fishing excessively, even using dynamite. The ignorance and the greed that drove that paradise (in my eyes it beats every place on earth) into an ordinary place for tourists to crash and lay their waste has made me angry (they do not appreciate it, in their heads if they pay for something, they can trash it). I remember promising myself to work hard and make enough money to buy the beaches and support the villagers to live their life like they used to, but how realistic is that, old people die, and with them go their ways. The young that remain rather see themselves on the boats with the pretty yet shallow bimbos, rather than with their families. Destroying and selling heritage and land just to live two or three beautiful years and then seeking azil and cleaning bathrooms in foreign countries. Shameful, all i want is for the souls and memories of those great men and women to rest in peace. I kept working hard and i am successful now and keep growing day by day, but that place is hopeless. Thankfully my interests have shifted from my village and my memories, to my wife and my two sons, but the bad taste remains and i try to show them that every summer, eventhough bitter. They have to learn and be very hard on themselves as i was and my father before me and his father and so on, so eventhough our land is polluted and degeneraed, at least our history and our name stands proud.
+Arjan Kasapi Dear Arjan, I'm with you in your bitter thoughts. Truly, greed and big money rule the world. I live in USA since 1990, and all my life I had a dream to see the Hawaii. However, when I came there I was about to cry watching how badly my country screwed up the life and the nature of such a paradise as Hawaii. These used to be pristine islands are just are places for the hotels making money and sell the entertainment. The beautiful and rich soil of Hawaii is now deadly damaged by the USA biotechnological corporations growing genetically-modified papaya - which kills the natural papaya, kills the soil there, and kills American people (suffering from cancer) buy selling in the store the GMO papaya. So as you see it (and I see it) the global monopolistic capitalism is evil and ruins people lives, happiness, the nature, and the private ethnics peaceful way of living their lives.Every 10 years the amount of people living on earth grow faster exponentially. People move around and migrate much more extensively, so the life it used to be is not possible anymore on that planet - anywhere. However, if we share our values and memories, and our soul intentions with our children, we have a hope we can do something good at least for our relatives and friends who think the same way and want to save their way of living in their authentic culture without it being polluted with physical garbage and being destroyed by TV brain-washing with the totally foreign culture.
+Marta Tereshchenko well Marta, that is all sadly clear to me. However, i am young and i have a career ahead, so there is one thing for sure, i cannot fight this. I then choose to embrace the truth, and be better at being a capitalistic scumbag. I will be twice as much of a bad person, because that pays. This way if i ever make my way to the top, it will not be through hard work only, i will add ruthlesness. If i ever get high enough, i will help. Anyway, to me all that is important is my family, so whatever i do, the profit in any form will remain in the family. I notice continuously how politicians are mostly just idiots, however, they are on top, the logic is, that they dont care whatthey do to make money, they can sell their mother for money. I dont aspire to win a peace nobel price anyway, in the end all that matters is money, because it leads to health, power and opportunities. "Good" people can keep complaining, all that comes from that is sorrow and probably cancer.
Im from Turkey we also have the same cuisine in the Aegean side of Turkey.We are sharing almost the same cuisine ( like Rakı ,dolma,sarma,yoghurt ,musakka ,lots of mezzes ....) with our neighbours ,Greeks, that's great.Btw I love Greece ,Greek People and Greek Culture.
Anddd No, Greek food Rocks, compared to turkish.. anddd you guys use a lot of butter, your sweets are drowned in syrup, anddd ur mousaka looks like baby food.. Sorry Turkey
The lady told the kid "take your hand out of your mouth" obviously for the picture. Greeks are proud & grandma thinks ppl are going to make fun of the kid if picture or video is taken & kid has his hand in his mouth. Lol.😅
I loved Crete already.. never been there but I feel they are like me or I am like them.. Social, friendly, simple, beautiful.. and Orthodox. the whole package.
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Im from Northern Morocco , and Im mind blown , we have exactly the same diet we use olive oil with everything and there lifestyle is so sinilaire to ours and even the landscape is undistinguishable its awesome
No we are not u have th muslim culture.. and your land is less grenner than ours and u are other race. And u do not have wine.. i m tired of arabs and turks saying they are like greeks.. u people are much swarrhier and with different mentality ! We are europeans and our country lies in the balkans we are more close genetically to bulgarians albanians and italians than to u at all
@@harigatogozaimash6561 the thing about morocco is that it's as ancient as greece. the ancient libyan berbers were always engaged with the ancient greeks and vice versa - before christianity or islam was a thing.. ancient greece wasn't an insular culture; the mediterranean created all kinds of avenues for migration and travel and sharing among people (phoenicians, egyptians, etc). the god atlas was said to live in northern morocco, and literally held up the earth on his shoulders. to this day the mountains over there are called the atlas. i'm a greek and i love morocco. don't be fooled by ignorance.
@@hellixxx The ancient Greeks had myths about all of their neighbors or people they knew. Genetics is an entirely different subject. No, the Berbers did not engage with the ancient Greeks. The Egyptians and Phoenicians did, in trade, with detectable influence that gradually faded, leaving some traits behind. Your approach is simplistic.
This guy is hot. I Love Greeks, beautiful people. I'm in love with a Greek, Greek Australian actually but sadly this person doesn't know I exist! Boo hoo for me.. Greek food is goodness!!
when i was in crete all they ate was chips (chunky fries for american readers) and fried red meat. perhaps this is was the traditional diet but modern times have caught up to crete
Except for that Greek food is more awesome. That coming from a Dutchmen who has been to both India and Greece among many other countries. aside from the fact that hygiene in Greece is about 100x better than in India, I will also say that I have never eaten better than in Greece. Greek cuisine is incredibly diverse and healthy, and outrageously delicious. Angels on my tongue. Aside from the fact like Matieu says that it's the oldest diet in the world, which is not surprising given the incredible deepness of it's history and it's well recorded culinary history and it's diet that has been the same for thousands of years, while most other places in the world changed their diets significantly or completely
When they talk about not having fat they're on about saturated fat which is processed and not good for you, ofc he know what he is talking about you think they got some random joey to do a lecture on nat geo smh
You can come to bodrum turkey, it is really close to greece we are really similar to each other but the turkish lira is so much cheaper than euro so just do some researches. You will see
My girlfriend gained 10 lbs. on Crete because a Granny-lady at a local restaurant kept bringing her free food to try. Now my girlfriend looks like a pregnant pencil.
that's what I used to say. I eat everything but that was my 'i will never, not even with a gun to my head' food. Then I tried it in a moment of insanity (i was in paris in the summer and everyone was eating them) and it was one of the most glorious, exquisite things I have tasted. It's heaven. Especially the way they make it there, with parsley and butter...with fresh bread...a glass of wine.. gods! heeeaven i tell ya!
agean and meditarrenean food are the best and oldest in turkey it also has some splashes of middle eastern and caucasus cuisine mixed up with a little bit persian. i also love greek food. anybody reading this comment I advice you to visit greece and west turkey and eat all you want were cheap countries haha
Im from Greece... I ve been to Efessos and Konstantinoupole (sorry I cant say Instanbul). It was great! Yeah your food is very nice. I love the Imam Baildi!!
B1GuD0G no it comes from islam-bol means lot of islam.wasnt used by the ottomans until 19th century then it evolved in to istanbul and offically thefirst time it was called istanbul is after the republic was formed
cnjohn34 It is derived from the Greek terms "Ης την Πόλη" (is tin poli) or "στην Πόλη" (stin poli or istimboli) which means "in the city" or "to the city". I'm sorry if you nationalist ideology attempts to change history but every reference to the root name identifies it as such.
B1GuD0G Iwould like to have a rational discussion with you but the golden dawn in you is to deep i guess. how can i put this the turks have been here for a thousand years.in istanbul for 800 and in the historical part for about 600 years they called the fuckin city konstantinye the name turned in to istanbul after turkey was formed in 1923 and after tons of language revolutions we managed to take out all the arabic farsi words from the language there are byzantine city names in turkey such as capadoccia tirabizond van etc.however istanbul is not from the language of greeks its islam-bol (much islam) i dont get whats the deal with the greeks so butthurt
What kinda of snails? I know you can't just go picking snails out of the garden, they have parasitic worms that can cause Angiostrongyliasis infection.
i am bored here in greece i had never left an i really want to visir an other llace olso i am 14 and i know to cook to collect herbs and cook them my actual name is sifis a traditional name
CMDR Exoticspeedefy I think it’s 82 but only for the ones who follow the traditional diet. Nowadays, together with fast food and the economic stress that many people have, it may have decreased.
People are healthy as long as their ancestors were healthy. It is sure that modern Cretans eat junk food as much as other Greek people. However, they are still relatively healthy only because they INHERITED good health (good genes) from their ancestors that were actually eating a healthy diet, which was mostly fruits and vegetables and which is the true natural human diet.
dont know why u loughing. this peopple live normal-healthy , in natural land. when im watching how english peopple live, i fell like crying, womiting. . so- stop loughing and start thinking about happy -healthy life.
