ATHENS – Standing on the same spot outside Parliament where they’d first come on their honeymoon 30 years earlier, Canadian couple Ernest Mayer, 74, and wife, Nancy, 63, were just as riveted at the sight of the Evzones changing guard as were the first time – and two other times they returned again to Greece.
“It was overwhelming, everything I saw in books was here,” Nancy, an art historian from Winnipeg told The National Herald of her first remembrance of Greece, and why they keep coming back, four times so far, this one the first in 12 years and during a long-running economic and austerity crisis.
“It was more than we expected, we loved the architecture and the history,” he said, and their fondness hasn’t dimmed, and now been joined by what could be as many as 23 million people in another record-busting season and saving grace for the country’s beleaguered economy.
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