Tag: travellers mistakes

Greece flatters first-time visitors with its postcard surfaces — the whitewashed villages, the cobalt sea, the long lunches that drift into evening. What it doesn't tell you, until you're already there, is that the country quietly punishes a certain kind of packing. The kind that assumes "Mediterranean" means one thing, that ancient sites are level, that pharmacies work the way they do back home. Most of these mistakes won't ruin a trip. But they'll cost you an afternoon, a pair of shoes, or the dignity of being turned away from ...