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@Anaathens-zx6fn

27 күн бұрын

Hello from Vienna, Austria!

@Tzortz-G

26 күн бұрын

Kriti file

@Eissara

26 күн бұрын

Greece is a beautiful country and I love it. This video where you are talking about rubbish on the beaches, actually it is unfortunate that Greece is not doing what some of the European countries do by using waste to produce energy. Landfills in Greece are causing judicial problems for the country. I do not know how politics are working there but Greece is part of the EU so perhaps something can be done with the help of for example: Denmark, Sweden or Germany to eliminate most of the rubbish and recycle what can be recycled to preserve the sea from waste and also the beautiful Greek nature

@user-tj3to6ps9t

6 күн бұрын

Neos Pyrgos, Euboea

I lived in creta for 6 years.most of the tourists were leaving their garbage at the beach or just where they were sitting. No respect for the place they had holidays. Big shame.

@Yiannis2112

27 күн бұрын

As if the Greeks are any better...

We need more people like yourself who takes action and points out the problem and sends the message to the proper authorities to get the job done “Μπράβο” 😎

I am a greek American and have attempted to live in Glyfada, where I was born. Trash is everywhere and nobody seems to notice or care. When I point it out my cousins shrug their shoulders and indicate that everywhere is like that. Step one would be to care

I am Greek living in the US and without excusing what you are talking on the video I want to say that this is not only a Greek problem I see it here too. I see garbage along the highways even mattresses & appliances; during the pandemic domestic tourists trashed the beaches of the famous & beautiful Lake Tahoe in California and not only that but also National Parks. There are lazy and careless people unfortunatelly everywhere. Thanks for posting

I lived in vouliagmeni (south of athens )for a number of years and took it upon myself to clean and pick up trash from trails and mountain viewpoints - it would be frustrating and locals would actually yell at me not to do it because it’s not your job”- even illegal dumping of construction debris just tossed behind bushes- I notice it would be lower educated locals / foreigners that would dump things and not to think anything of it -

@blessgodess5146

25 күн бұрын

People classified as "lower educated" probably live in areas where trash discartment is not as efficient as it would be in an area with more "educated" people . Sometimes it's economic status and negligence...however no excuse and we should all play our part.

I have an idea. When I visit that beach, i’m gonna bring a big bag with me and Not only take my garbage with me but some of that left behind. Hope people do the same thanks to you buddy 👏👏

am greek and from nafplio(mother's side) too and do the same thing as you, most of the times, take the rubbish with me and throw them in more central places that I know garbage trucks are more frequent to be seen and pickup the trash. really good channel you have there and very good vibes. keep it up!

@Fegga1955

26 күн бұрын

Me too on Evia island.Have convinced two others to take trash into big town bins.They should pick up trash daily,they don’t!,,,so yes take home but tourists don’t know this,The Greeks don’t care or just don’t think they will see it next day🥲🥲

Maryland USA, coming to Greece in September for the first time 🤗 I'm SOOOO excited!!

@Fegga1955

26 күн бұрын

Enjoy🎉🎉🎉

You are right, filth is unbearable. My neighbors throw garbage on the ground and leave their trash bags everywhere, and no one cares, it's a terrible lack of respect for nature and for others. I'm going to move out and leave them in their filth. I can't do anything else. (I live in Belgium)

@Fegga1955

26 күн бұрын

Mine too

Έχεις δίκιο Δανιέλ, ευχαριστώ για το βίντεο και έριξες φως όσον αφορά αυτό το ζήτημα. Όλοι εμείς που μένουμε στην Ελλάδα έχουμε το καθήκον να φροντίσουμε το εξωτερικό περιβάλλον μας και να φροντίσουμε την χώρα.

Oregon, USA. We enjoyed Nafplio last month. You found a very nice place to settle down.

I’ll never forget many years ago vacationing at Loutraki I went for a swim only to be surrounded with filth. I later learned that the cruise ships were dumping their garbage into the sea. It completely ruined my vacation. I just hope that attitudes regarding the environment have improved.

@Fegga1955

26 күн бұрын

Yep!Fishermen throw all their trash in sea🥲🥲🥲

Kalamira to you and your family! Glad your pointing out this problem good advise 😊

2 things here, 1) Υes, the service is poor, look that the bins don't have wheels, how do the bins move? 2) People see the full bin but still leave the trash, because years ago when we didn't have beams they left it on site.

Thanks for the video and for caring for Greece!

Καλημέρα φίλε μου δυστυχώς στην Ελλάδα μας δεν εκτιμάνε τον πλούτο που έχει αυτή η χώρα ..Νιώθεις και νιώθουμε άσχημα βλέποντας αυτό..απλά απαράδεκτο.Σου εύχομαι μια μέρα να γίνεις δήμαρχος η πόλη μας θα λάμψει τοτε❤.

Hi Daniel, I have seen massive changes to attitudes with rubbish in Greece. When I lived there at a young age I remember people would just throw their rubbish outside their car windows or just drop the litter on the street - this was the norm in the late 1970’s-1990’s! So glad that Greece has changed so many of these attitudes and is a progressive and beautiful country. There is hope 🙏🏼 However one thing I have noticed more recently is that there are more and more shops ( especially the little local shops) using plastic bags again!! They are not the compostable bags/ paper bags you might get in the bigger super markets. Please can you investigate this issue resurfacing in some of the smaller village shops. Problem is they do get into the sea and cause problems for the marine life. I still see too much plastic/ bottles/ bags on the amazing beaches round the area you are filming. These things take time to change but really it is urgent to eliminate the use of plastic bags there. Thanks for your great videos 😊

Dude, I was like a couple hundred meters down the beach :). It was packed and scorching hot, we arrived at 9:30 and barely could find an umbrella and sunbeds... People were waiting even half an hour or 45 mins to get one after 11am. We left at 1pm because we couldn't stand the heat. We brought a BIG bag of goodies from KOSMOS (I think this place needs its own video) and we took our trash with us when we left just because we saw the bins overflowing. I mean the city can do a lot but we have to help as well... We have to be more conscious and not throw responsibility away. If you see the bloody bin full, don't throw your trash, KNOWING it'll end up on the floor. The city is 5 mins drive away and you can find many bins in there. It was a beautiful 2.5 days in Nafplio, despite the fact that it was super busy and quite hot. Greetings from (now) Athens.

Keep up the good work with your videos 🤟🤟

You are great Daniel. All your videos are honest and spot on.

Looks like a great day the temperature here in Scotland it’s 16c and overcast never mind I will be in Crete shortly 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🙏

That is our problem year round in Puerto Rico. Total Disrespect!

Hello from Athens,. Thank you mucho for doing something about it

Spread the word.....bring a plastic bag for your trash to take home to your own trash bin as a few trash cans for the whole beach during the tourist season as there aren't regular daily scheduled trash pickups for the area.

Thank you for your honesty, once again, in showing the negatives along with the positives of Greece. My friends in Karpathos have the same complaint and write constantly to the Mayor, but … very little gets done to collect the garbage or keep bins clean. Writing from Geneva, Switzerland, where there is no comparison. The bins have liners and are kept quite proper and clean.

thanx for the videos my family is all gone now kids have grown up by myself and my dream is to fulfill my parents dream that we all move back to greece after they came here during the civil war. i was 2 and my sister years old, i am alone and i am about to become an expat. thank you for inspring me i think i can live much better wi;th my social security income in greece. your area is a good advertisement for those like myself who yearn for kinonia, sense of community again just like i remember growing up

It is a big shame! Everyone has a responsibility to keep the country -roads, cities and beaches clean. The responsibility falls on the municipality, the residents and the tourists. Greece and the beaches are not someones garbage can. Respect the environment and the sea. The municipality can hire people to patrol the beaches who should be able to fine people-residents or tourists - for littering. Action has to be taken! This is not acceptable to do this to our beautiful country!

@Yiannis2112

27 күн бұрын

The country is inhabited by bipolars. We like, to the point of OCD, clean indoors and dirty outdoors. Spinkled with the fragrance of stray cat piss and pet dog turds.

People who do this should be ashamed. They need to be fined for doing this.

Kalimera from Montréal one week away from July 1, Canada Day 🇨🇦 have a peaceful day at the beach 🏖️

That's really true. I am surprised how careless people nowadays have become, that don't respect natural beauty.

Law of attraction! Haha you decided to make a video about the issue that bothers you and soon after they start cleaning it up! The universe works fast haha💪

There is always hope dear.... And by telling what is wrong, you do your duty as a citizen and create awareness. The authorities are always a little.... Lazy, to put it nicely, so if many people complain about things that are not done or are wrongly done, they will eventually do their job. The clue is.... Insistance!

I go to the beach every day and I never take anything with me to consume or buy anything. So I do not produce any rubbish, either. One of the worst kind of rubbish are the thousands of cigarette butts that accumulate on the beaches during the summer. Nobody picks these up, before the first autumn storm sweeps them out to the sea to annoy the fish. Another thing. I am a naturalized citizen (not Greek) now for over 45 years.It is 38 years ago since I lived in the country I have the passport in. My experience is, that a person becomes a mix of all the places lived in. I will never feel purely one or the other, or the third. Now I have lived in Greece for 25 years which is the longest period in my life in one country. The balance of the mix has changed, but I will never be able to feel my self belonging to a certain nationality. I like the very clear Greek distinction, also on official documents, between ipikootita (nationality) and ethnikootita (ethnic belonging and meaning mostly where you are born). There is a big difference. Nationality is just a paper. And hopefully a practical one living in the EU.

very big problem in greece is the rubbish left everywhere and the lack of cleaning from the Δήμος i remember going looking for rubbish and you find bottles and wrappers that are years old just jammed everywhere, people can be so lazy its very sad to trash a beautiful environment.

This is a problem in many places in my country 😔..... I hope the new generations do a better job...😢

@Yiannis2112

27 күн бұрын

The new already learned from the old and they're going to be the same. We like our house clean and everything outside it full of trash, dog and cat turds and piss.

in east asia people always carry their trash with them. its not that hard. just bring a bag/backpack

I went to the beach also today! Καλή βδομάδα!

You are right. Even me as greek that grew up abroad think the same. I want to film the nice beach but rubbish around which you notice 😂

Can you do a video on Skiathos and Volos? Efcharisto Poly in advance

Back in the 1980s and 1990s it was worse. I recall many times just strolling on the beach and see cigarette butts (gopes-γόπες) tucked in the sand as if it was an ashtray. We even joked to the ones that tucked their cigarettes in the sand by saying "it won't grow into a new cigarette buddy". Nevermind the tonnes of these resting at the bottom of the sea. Nowadays it got a tad better, yet as you witnessed the problem persists especially with the used plastic bottles. It is also disappointing to see an extensive amount of trash on roads/highways, even in remote areas, let alone heavy debris in illegal dump sites. PS: One of the reasons I rarely drive in Greece are the reckless drivers. In eparchia, oooh boy, you must be on constant alert every second the moment you take the roads even for a short drive.

In ancient Greece, they used to say 'cleanse means culture/civilization' Education starts from home, before school years.Its not only mayor's fault.What can he do if he has a schedule based on the numbers of his men to collect the garbage in some specific days of the week?From the other hand there is always some kind of people that just don't give a f... Throw their garbage on sand, their cigarettes...and bla bla bla. They should forbade the entrance to people of this kind and 'fix their ticket' with a tax fine. If they don't learn with the easy way they surely learn with the hard one...

@Yiannis2112

27 күн бұрын

Greek state and common citizens alike, in terms of clean and tidy outdoors, turned their back to their ancestors long ago, with no forseeable sign of fixing their brains and setting this right. At best, at this rate, it might take a couple of generations.

At least YOU have rubbish bins to put rubbish in!

Πείτε μου σας παρακαλώ ότι δεν έχουν ξεκινήσει να καταστρέφουν τη καραθωνα μετά την πώληση της... Άκουσα ότι κόβουν τις λεύκες που είναι πάρα πολλά χρόνια εκεί και κάνει ένα υπέροχο φυσικό τοπίο..

This is my country unfortunately. And you know there are probably more people hired to do the job that are actually needed, and they probably just don’t do their job, don’t show up, nobody cares etc. Such bad management in a lot of places on the local admin level.

It shouldn't be our responsibility to bring the garbage home with us. We pay taxes and therefore the municipality should be cleaning the bins and collecting the garbage on a daily basis. With that said, have fun and enjoy your family time.

@tpop3723

27 күн бұрын

And there lies the problem with that attitude.

@SpyrosCurse13

27 күн бұрын

@tpop3723 What attitude? Shouldn't the local government be held responsible for their failures? Maybe we should fix the roads ourselves then. What is the purpose of the sanitation department?

@MrR2185

27 күн бұрын

This is the thing my friend. We all have to take responsibility to make our community a better place. Yes, you pay taxes....yes the municipality has to clear the garbage bins.....but you know they will not always be there to do it. Do you think it is a valid excuse to throw your trash on the ground because the government sucks? It is like running a red light with your car just because the police are not around.

@SpyrosCurse13

27 күн бұрын

@MrR2185 nobody said to throw your garbage to the ground...(I never did that once in my life) just hold accountable the municipality and the Mayor so they have enough personnel to pick up the trash.

@Yiannis2112

27 күн бұрын

Blah blah blah Mr Spyros. The usual drivel of "Only the despicable state is always at fault. Who? Me? No, never!" Why do we still throw and leave a variety of trash on the streets and pavements? Receipts, tickets, cigarette buds, plastic bags, leaflets, cups of coffee, empty bottles etc. In this case, is it the state who's at fault or our third world disregard for the place we live in?

oh i am from washington d.c. since 1964

FIRST, Karathonas Beach is a BEAUTIFUL PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT... This is a localized problem at Karathona Beach.... its based on R-E-S-P-E-C-T.....as the song released by Otis Redding belted out !!! Karathona is not surrounded by watchful eyes, the local greeks that swim here do not live in this "hood"..... Nafplion and Tolo are 3-5 kilometers away...... therefore, the mentality of folks changes dramatically....lacking respect of the environment as the end result. A SOLUTION: {Daniel: Print out on cardstock A4 sheet paper similar to the following (IN GREEK)} "Sas Parakalo, ....Eav o kados Aporrimmatov eivai yematos, Metoferete ta skoupidia sto spiti sas..... .....euxaristoume para poli..... .....As agapisoume ti phisi!!!!! ELLYNAS MOUSIKOS ADELPHIA , NAFPLION THEN: staple above notice on two sides of each trash can. This just Might Work.....its worth a try. Cheers. Andreas of Atlanta (excuse my poor greek) The TRUTH of the above is implementing a little Common Sense......but Common Sense is not very "Common" any longer......anywhere...

@johnkarras7962

26 күн бұрын

oh, most important: you must have a local create and attach the above "notice" such that you are removed from stepping on the locals feet. as an "outsider", one must protect oneself from being labeled by others...no matter how well meant the task. cheers.

Funny you say it's a "Bank Holiday". It's The Day of Holy Spirit according to Orthodox Religion (50 days after Orthodox Easter, which was May 5) ;)

@MyGreekLifestyle

26 күн бұрын

It's not funny at all. My audience is foreigners and not all of them are Orthodox. The term “Bank Holiday” is for everyone to understand that it is a non-working day. Nothing less, nothing more.

@vullinghs2009

26 күн бұрын

@@MyGreekLifestyle Sorry; must be that English is not my native language

Defo not negative but just the truth, bank holiday in heatwave temps expect humane working conditions for the trashmen too lol

i Disagree my friend, Greece's beaches and waters they are at top 5 in WORLD, Hellas have many of the cleanest seas in the world , there is no dark side at this area , other countries have the problem with garbage and indeed to a large extent (sometimes the cats, Greece is the country of cats, to get something they smelled at the bottom of the bin they are capable of emptying it all)

@Yiannis2112

27 күн бұрын

Of course you disagree and rightly so. The whole country is as clean as a surgery room.

@ELLAS1234

27 күн бұрын

@@Yiannis2112 is as clean as a surgery room?!! οκ , οκ ,let's talk about rivers , in Europe it's the most clean rivers , yes Greece has the most clean rivers and lakes , there are countries in Europe with not even just one clean river , that say it all

@Yiannis2112

26 күн бұрын

@@ELLAS1234I rest my case. Just don't let that door hit you on the head on your way out

@ELLAS1234

26 күн бұрын

@@Yiannis2112 Εν τάξει , εχεις καλη καρδια και η Ελλαδα ειναι ενας τεραστιος μαγνητης που ωθει ενδιαφεροντες ανθρωπους με καρδια να μεινουν εδω , αλλωστε ειμε fan and i rest my case too

@Yiannis2112

26 күн бұрын

@@ELLAS1234 Εδώ μιλάμε για τις μέσα στο σκουπιδαριό από μας τους ίδιους που πετάμε κάτω ότι αχρείαστο κρατάμε στα χέρια μας, πόλεις, κωμοπόλεις χωριά, εθνικούς, επαρχιακούς δρόμους, εξοχές, ρέματα... Δε μπορεί να μη τα βλέπεις ρε συ και να μη ντρέπεσαι. Μπορεί να θες να μη τα βλέπεις, αλλά η μύτη σου ξέρω, ότι δε σ'αφήνει...Κι όλα αυτά ενώ τα σπίτια μας είναι καθαρά, σε βαθμό ψυχικού εξαναγκασμού. Οξύμωρο; Κι εσύ μου λες καλή καρδιά και καθαρά ποτάμια...

A failed state...No two ways around it

you ARE Greek, whether you like it or not ... 😂