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Hooray for Tourists!
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I think every public phone worked even to ring internationally without any problem, and I used at least a dozen of them; you were never more than 10 km from one even out in the desert - the tangible advantages of an infrastructure that's geared to a tourist industry ...
another of these tangible benefits is that road signs on any major road are not only given in both Greek and Latin letters, but use different colours for the different alphabets - white for one and yellow for the other (of course I can't remember now which was which!), exactly what I've always felt was so necessary on motorways in Wales, where you can cause an accident while trying to work out which language you're reading. The generally tourist-friendly atmosphere that this produced was somewhat reduced by the fact that in some areas a disturbingly large proportion of them seemed to have been used for target practice by someone with a gun ...