Greetings from the 'Pest (pretty sure nobody refers to it as such but I plan of bringing it in before I leave).
First of all, I have my last night of Greece to catch up on.
So, we go out to this bar with a cool view, and there we are enjoying happy hour beers 2for1. Sidenote - I hated beer and coffee before this trip. Now I have tried them and know actively order them at cafes/bars. How do i explain it? Habit. Last year target worked out how to predict who of their customers we're pregnant even in their first trimester of pregnancy. Not going into the details of how, you can read about it, but why did they care? To target promotions to them, but why pregnancy and not gardening buffs, families with children, etc? Answer? Habit. The most foundation breaking thing to happen to anyone's life is having a baby. You change your whole routine around that kid and thereafter you're set in your new ways. So, habits are malleable and if target caught people on the cusp of that habit change, they would keep those customers coming back as they would form new habits with target as their one stop shop for supplies. Anyways, this trip is completely me in a different element. I've travelled before but not by myself for this long (7 months), so my whole melbourne routine has been shaken, therefore I'm more likely to try new things.
So we're at this bar, I approach a group of 3 trying to meet some locals, we have a chat then it fizzles and I leave back to my cousin and his friends. We think it'd be funny to get one of our friends at the bar with us to go up to them as well and say the exact same thing. He chickens out, and so we decide to punish him for it - unfortunately it went abit far. The poor guy had a date after hanging out with us, so we tell him we're coming along with him to the date - gate crashing it basically. So we get off at his stop with him following him to the date; he's pleading us not to, but we're abit loose after happy hour drinks and also laughing hysterically at this situation we're putting him in. We end up meeting his date, us 3, him and his date all go to a local bar, sit there for about 3.5 hours, and at one point, us three we're sitting in between the date-ees(?), to the point when if they wanted to say anything to each other they had to yell. Now, before you think we're cruel people, we all actually had a great time, lots of laughs etc. and also I tried pulling the parachute a number of times seven before we got to the bar, cos I knew it was getting abit too much haha, but the others wouldn't follow my lead of "hey let's us go this way cos i have to show you something awesome on the guitar for a second and never come back.."
Anyways, we apologised to him privately profusely and went for a late night hot dog and then went home.
Sidenote #2 - while in Australia people tend to go for midnight maccas runs, in Greece it seems more like 2am souvlaki eating. Thought that was interesting.
Final note for Greece, I have restrung my cousins guitar, and so I have a guitar to doodle around on - I sit on the balcony in the mornings when I wake up and just play. It's also fun having passerby's slow their walks and look up to see where the music's coming from... But also it's just great to be able to play an acoustic. Unfortunately don't have it with me travelling at the moment so feeling a tad deprived. When I return to Greece not only will I have guitar access but ill also be island hopping a bit and am obviously looking forward to that!
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