The timing of this is pretty bad if you think about it. Summer vacation period is coming up and hundreds of thousands of Europeans would be going to Greece in May, June, July, and August. Planes would be lined up in France, Germany, England, and the Netherlands.
If suddenly your planes (ever so carefully made) had to deal with some vast change on currency...then you’d question the idea of going to Greece. I’m betting it’s an all-time low record of folks with plans for a Greek vacation this year. Hotels will likely be half full, and the revenue that they would have made....is non-existent.
The only thing that would make it worse is another volcanic eruption that spewed ash into the atmosphere.
I am in Athens now. If it weren’t for the news I wouldn’t know anything is going on out of the ordinary...well except for the riot police in a bus yesterday probably heading for the center of town. But life is sort of quiet here in the embassy district. Our hotel, the Hilton, isn’t empty and there are plenty of foreign languages to hear from the guests along with Americans.
I suppose if we wanted to go join the crowds we could find them but we’re not about to do that.