OT: OK, so maybe the Greeks are starting to worry...

[knight_ru]

how was the trip overall? Which islands did you visit?

 

[gRUntWork]

Stayed for 2 weeks. Direct Delta flight from JFK to Athens. Stayed 2 night in Athens to see the Parthenon and local sites. Took a ferry to Naxos, the largest of the Cyclades islands. They have very nice beaches and not as commercialized as some of the other islands. More geared to a family (I have 11 year old twins) than Mykonos or other "party" islands. Stayed for 6 nights in Naxos (rented a car because it's a big island.) in a villa in the hills with a nice view of the port town Hora. Then took another ferry to Santorini for 4 days. Then flew back to Athens and flew back home the next morning.

An excellent trip!

 

[Kbee3]

You could have just shown Paul Krugman's work. While it is certainly a bit of hyperbole to equate austerity without debt relief to blood letting his point is spot on. What Germany is proposing is punishment not a viable solution. It simply does nothing other than punish Greece and scare the piss out of anyone else who may default.


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/opinion/paul-krugman-ending-greeces-bleeding.html


http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/an-unsustainable-position/

Krugman is the Man.