Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays/Whatever you call it.

[uwe]

That does look suitably scenic, little Greek! Your neighborhood there?

[exiledarchangel]

Yup, as a matter of fact its the view from the front side from my house.
Here is another nice photo I took, from the other side of the village the Rhein-Main-Donau-Kanal.

[uwe]

You don't miss the sea and the mountains of Greece?

[exiledarchangel]

Nop, after all sea is overrated! I like forests and mountains more. Oh, and the beer here is not bad at all...

[Pilgrim]

Yup, as a matter of fact its the view from the front side from my house.
Here is another nice photo I took, from the other side of the village the Rhein-Main-Donau-Kanal.

Man, that is flatter than Nebraska!!

[westen44]

Nop, after all sea is overrated! I like forests and mountains more. Oh, and the beer here is not bad at all...

Have you been to the Gulf Coast?  Like Panama City, Florida?  A beautiful beach there.  I lived there for a while, liked it very much.  Nevertheless, I'm not saying that's prettier than Greece.  I doubt that it is.  Still, it's quite stunning.   As for Germany, I have only spent a week there, but it was also stunning and had great variety.  At times, especially in the countryside, it felt like I was stepping into a fairy tale.  That was my introduction to Europe, and I was impressed. 

[uwe]

Greece has a very beautiful coastline (and then all those islands), but the exiled feathered one has probably seen it to death.

[exiledarchangel]

True. I'd rather go to my grandparents house on the mountains on summers rather than going to a beach and be a sweaty sunburned mess.
There's fish crap inside and people go and have joy in there? And you call me weirdo?

[uwe]

"There's fish crap inside and people go and have joy in there?"

That is so much Edith. She loves the sea and the coast, but absolutely steadfastly refuses to swim in it because "There's animals, plancton and all that inside it!". The Seychelles wouldn't be for her. I went swimming there and the water is so full of ocean life something bumps into you constantly while little fish nibble your dead skin away (feels pleasant, tickles just a bit). Stingrays, turtles, large molluscs, you name it, you keep tripping over it. Really had a Garden of Eden effect on me.

[patman]

I just recently watched a travel show on Croatia, and thought both the coast (pretty close to Greece on the Adriatic) and the interior were stunning...made a mental note to visit someday, if possible.  I have a slavic name, so maybe I would blend in...

[uwe]

If you go there, nice as it is, don't forget bathing shoes! The urchins there are a real pest. Lurchin' into an urchin will have you a doc a-surchin'.

Ouch. My poetry. Not the urchin spikes still somewhere in my body.

[Highlander]

And don't forget where all those baby fish come from, and the left-overs...

And the Med... so much nutrients... oh... oh... where the effluent goes...

[westen44]

"There's fish crap inside and people go and have joy in there?"

That is so much Edith. She loves the sea and the coast, but absolutely steadfastly refuses to swim in it because "There's animals, plancton and all that inside it!". The Seychelles wouldn't be for her. I went swimming there and the water is so full of ocean life something bumps into you constantly while little fish nibble your dead skin away (feels pleasant, tickles just a bit). Stingrays, turtles, large molluscs, you name it, you keep tripping over it. Really had a Garden of Eden effect on me.

Those who don't like getting in the water do have some valid points to make. 

http://io9.com/terrifying-living-fossil-caught-off-the-coast-of-aust-1680913430

[uwe]

I'm generally more afraid of humans than of animals, but this little fish would have me think twice.