Sorry, Dimitri, it is very difficult to follow up your remarks.
Maybe, it could be a reason. I am from Germany and I do not know where do you come from?
Are you really from England? Do you love Crete or not?
I understood your dreams are broken. I believe you are very frustrated.
You should not carry over your bad experience.
I hope Ali and Dave will have a chance for a new start in Plakias. And I am admire the courage as to do something like this in a forgein country.
Kerstin is on the right track here. I have been reading the rantings of 'Dimitri' with interest.
He is much too impertinent to be English. In fact he is extremely rude . I am sure the majority of seasoned travellers to Greece and particularly Plakias are not under the impression that the streets of Crete are paved with gold. That is what uneducated foreigners think England is.
His mastery of the English language also leaves much to be desired . He calls Cretans 'Cretins'. That is a mistake no self respecting English speaker would ever make without checking the correct grammar.
The profile of Dimitri states that throwing rocks at tourists and shooting guns at random amuses him. This sums him up really as an embittered loser trying desperately to be accepted. He really should not project his bitterness onto others .
I also speak Greek fluently but do not expect to be accepted as 'one of them' on the basis of this alone. Not all Cretans are the same nor as insular. My neighbours are Greek. Both highly educated - one , an opthalmologist from Thessaloniki (working at our local hospital ) , together with his wife , a foreign language teacher, from Paleochora. They met at university in Athens and are in England to earn as much as they can and gain qualifications not available to them in Athens. They will return to Greece with valuable contributions to their chosen profession. . Both of them are really horrified on reading the remarks of ' Dimitri '. They say it gives a very bad impression of the true character of Greeks and indeed , Cretans. I know English people who have gained valuable education and much more by living in Greece. None of them are bitter and certainly did not expect to be thought of as 'Greek'.
'Dimitri' seems to think that all foreigners and tourists are ignorant of the different culture. He is very , very wrong. Most visitors to the likes of Plakias have a very good knowledge of the differing cultures and are sympathetic to the peoples and surroundings. In other words, educated.
I am a lawyer and therefore use 200 words when one will do but I would ask'Dimitri' or whatever his name is to think carefully before he insults other people's intelligence and questions their lifestyle choices.
Travellingran
