So my Dad finally gets high speed (sort of) Internet in Greece. Friggin DSL. Took him 10 years to get a DSL hookup from the Greek Stone Age Phone Company. Now he's hemming and hawing about whether the wireless router (50 euros) is worth it that would allow everybody (him, all his guests) to hook up to the web on their laptops without a wire. I'm smack him but I'm too far away and he's too old. God help me. Well, at least he got DSL. It was dial up the last time we were there. Ooofaaaa.

Greece is so third world in so many ways. And the half the people who live there seem to think it's a modern Euro country. And in some ways, it is. In some ways. In other ways it hasn't changed in 50 years.