Hi everyone, I'm Martyna!
Toady I want to tell you something more about Greece.
I'm back here for a while,
so I also want to come back to my original thought about my YouTube channel.
Which was shearing my knowlage about Greece.
I'm coming to you with a TAG.
TAG: Greece, simple as it is :D
I looked for it, I didn't make those questions by myself.
This tag was popular on Greek YouTube few years ago.
I translated all questions, have them on my tablet
and I'm ready to tell you my answers!
Keep on watching! Hope this video will be interesting for you!
First question: What is your favorite place in Greece?
I told you many times about it!
My favorite place is definitely Acropolis. I'm not a big fan of Athens,
it's love/hate relationship between us :p
And line is very, very thin :D
I have to admit that Acropolis is
amazing and breathtaking.
I've talked about it more in another video
"5 reasons to love Greece".
But in my city
I adore a pier!
Hope you can see a pictures now.
It's 1 km long, so it goes far into the water.
And spending time there
is priceless!
You can drive a bike, take a walk with a dog,
fishing, have a picnic,
you can do ANYTHING and you will have so much fun!
Second question: Greek word used in other language.
And again,
I want to show you a scene from "My big fat Greek wedding"!
It's soooo true!
We have take any word and
find roots in Greek language.
Except of words we all know and are very typical,
like mathematics, philosophy,
democracy,
the is one word, which you probably don't know
and it's soup (Greek: soupa, Polish: zupa).
So we wouldn't have problems
in a taverna :D
Third question: What is your favorite Greek cosmetics brand?
And don't know if you know or use,
but on a market there is one very popular Greek brand.
And it's called Korres.
They export cosmetics not only to Europe!
They are super expensive (in Poland).
You can buy them in Sephora and
the prices are crazy! Even 70 euro for a cream!
Here in Greece, they are not very cheap,
but ofter you can buy 1 and you get 1 for free.
My sister did it and she was very satisfied with it.
In my opinion quality is worth the high price tag ((in Greece, not in Poland!).
And I want to stressed,
and I want to quote.
Honestly, I didn't know that either. I found it yesterday, when
I was preparing my answers.
Korres uses homeopathy in the production of natural cosmetics,
with active herbal ingredients, without any synthetic chemicals.
I'm not really sure I encourage you to buy them...
but if you ever have an opportunity
you should try them out!
Even a tonic,
I used facial masks.
I didn't use those crazy expensive creams.
But I can reccomend masks, they are quite cheap! :)
And they are suuuuuuper good!
So yeah, Korres is my favorite Greek brand.
Fourth question, and... I'm very disappointed with myself!
It's a question about "favorite Greek artist".
I have to tell you,
I don't really have one!
I can't think about anyone,
I don't even have my favorite actor!
I'm watching Greek movies, but
I didn't see so many of them to love someone!
And also.. I'm not listening to Greek music.
I can't answer for this question,
yada yada yada :D
yada yada yada :D
I will think about it more!
Fifth question or it's more like a.. challange! :D
"Sing first Greek song you have in mind".
I won't do it, but not becasue
I'm too shy or I can't sing (but yeah, I can't :D).
I just...
really, really, really hate Greek music.
I don't like traditional songs, I don't like modern music or pop, whatever!
My ears are bleeding when I have to listen to Greek music for a long time :D
I have to deal with it somehow,
because they don't listen any other kind of music.
In pubs, clubs, even in buses!
Everywhere you have to listen to Greek music...
In radio, one every 20-30 songs is in English.
There is one song I remember and
it was first Greek song I've heard, two years ago, when I moved here :D
Here it is:
Question number 7:
Oh no, number 6.
Village in the mountains or sunny beach?
To be honest, in Greece is very hard to separate those two things :D
When we're on the sea side, there is 95% chances
that you also have mountain view around you.
So it's 2 in 1 :p
But when I have to choose one,
I would pick a sunny beach.
This is why most of us are coming to Greece, right? :)
BUT! I saw many vlogs and blogs from small islands
like Santorini or Mykonos,
and there I would really reccomend you to stay faw away from the center.
You can always come to this turistic side of the island,
but you will miss an opportunity to meet amazing people who lives far away from tourists.
In my opinion this is what you should try!
So of course
you should spend some time at the beach, but
if you only have a chance, take a car
and go up, up, up!
Question number 7: "What do you like the most and what you don't like in Greek people?"
I was talking about, I what I like the most is their way of sharing the meals.
I won't repeat myself, you can watch it in my video "5 reasons to love Greece".
"Culutre of eating" here is very balkan, which means
that no one is getting their own plate with food,
but everything is placed on the table, so you can taste everything you want.
I really love it!
And this is what I like the most about Greeks.
And now... what I don't like..
Oh, ok.
I don't like to talk bad about Greeks,
all those stereotypes are enough.
Like one about their lazyness,
they are not paying their debts,
all things about crisis and yada yada yada.
I don't want to stressed it more. So I will tell you a different story.
There was a time, when I had to find an apartament.
So of course I was checking them out,
walking around the city, see which one I like more.
I have to tell you, that I didn't expect what I saw.
Unfortunately I can't forget about it.
In Poland, when you want to rent an apartment,
when we are an owner and we want someone to live in our house
we present it as well as it's possible.
So first of all.... it's clean!
Yeah guys, it's CLEAN!
And that's all.
In Poland, if you want to rent your house, it has to be clean.
Here......
just opposite!
I can't even say that apartments I saw were "messy".
It wasn't just dusty, like you know - for 3 monhts no one want to live there
- it can happen!
So then, it's dusty. And you didn't clean it.
This is what I can agree for.
But what I saw.... Oh guys, what I saw :(
It was extremely disgusting and I'm not even exaggerating.
When we did rent an appartment evenually (my and my friend).
We shared obligations between us, but not in the normal way.
We cleand what was less disgusting for us!
I said that there is not a chance I will clean a bathroom
and she didn't want to clean the fridge.
So yeah, we almost played "rock scissors paper" :D
It's for sure not normal.
So yeah, the worst characteristic you can have is being so thoughtless and careless.
I really adore them, but
what the heck Greeks? :D
They are not taking care about thigns.
About their own houses... yeah, they do care, I can't say.
But you know... Till the fence.
If there is something behind it...
Yeah you know "It's not his"!
I'm very sorry I had to tell it,
I hope you see my struggles.
I honestly don't like to say bad things about the others.
But yep, that was it!
Question number 8!
"What is your favorite Greek movie?"
So, my favorite Greek movie is
a English/Greek movie actually.
They speak more in English than in Greek :D
It's called "Never on Sunday".
Title says alot about Greeks too :D
But seriously,
it's a comedy,
about a prostitue from Pireus (district of Athens),
it's black and white,
with beautiful main actress.
It's very funny,
and I hope you can find English subtitles,
to understand Greek parts of it.
But if you speak basic Greek
you can easly watch it without any subtites.
I understood it all.
There is one more movie I want to tell you about.
I watched it few months ago and I liked it.
It is a movie about very sensitive but popular topic -
it was a movie about immigration.
Story is about a man who can't understand how all this happend,
he keeps thinking about Athens from his childhood.
He didn't know how to accept all those changes
and he tried to do something about it.
Which of course had and impact on other people.
I think you should watch it, it's really, really nice!
I can't remember the titles, so
I will show you the poster.
Question number 9!
"What is your favorite Greek meal?"
As an ex meat lover I have to say it is musaka.
But I also talked about it in "5 reasons to love Greece":D
But as a vegetarian,
I have to admit, that
I love startes and side dishes!
I LOVE tyrokafteri -
which is a feta dip with hot spieces and hot pepper.
If you like spicy food, you're going to like it!
I also like pickled aubergines
and of course Greek salad!
But the most the "last part" of is - olive oil with all veggie juices with bread!
I'm eating it every day for dinner :D
I hope you like my video and
you learnt something more about Greece.
Because it's all for you! So you can learn new things at home!
That's all for today! If you like it, please give me a thubs up
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