My Greek Olympics: Food and work, two constants

Transport:

At first we had the van to take us back to the center, but soon this is lost by the shit heads wanting to have a personnel driver. We have to take a taxi which means walking out to Kifisia and flagging one down or calling one which is hard to do. We stand on the side and do the Greek wave, arm stretched straight out. A taxi slows and you yell were you want to go, if they stop you get in, if not you wait for the next one. Takes a little time to find an empty taxi that can take 3 people, usually only one or two could go. Some times we would just have them take us to the Metro and ride from there, it was too far to walk to the station and we didn't want to go up to Marousi and get the Electico.

Self-deploy:

A few weird things happen right off, a couple of people just show up and say they are there to work on the project. We find out that these people are either sending themselves to find work or are being sent by people in the States so their division can make money. All are a waste, one guy came because he was getting married and wanted a free plane ticket to Greece. The problems with Siemens start at once, we don't have access to the people we need to talk to and the people we are working with are very secretive. 

At this time we are also thinking of where to live, the thought was that we would get per dim and that was it, it would be the best for us. George was giving lots of advice, since he lived there before, we listened a bit. Part of the process was finding a place to set up our offices, so in addition to looking at places to live, we looked for offices. George was able to find a place through a friend, but we looked at other places as well. The corporate people were showing up too and I didn't involve myself with them to much, Jay and Vic were doing that.

Eating at the Souvlaki Stands:

There were the touristy Souvlaki places in Monastiraki square that were always crowded, but a lot of Greeks ate there too. Sabbas was one place and I would prefer that place over the other two. I would eat inside when it was cold or rainy, but this time I had no choice. It was so busy that I could only sit inside and up stairs. I would order tow or three kabobs with pita, which is a Gyro here, and they put onions and parsley and tomatoes, if you wanted 'vegetables', they put fries on it. An order of fried chilies and a beer rounded out the dinner.

Meet for Kabobs

The place was very basic, basic chairs and tables, all crowded together and it would be packed with people. A narrow stair case was the way up and the sellers would come up selling lottery tickets or cheap junk. It was really cheap to eat there and the food was OK, it was also very quick. There was a "fast food" chain Gyro place around the corner that was never busy and only tourists how were scared to go tot the other places would eat at.