Greece

We're going to Greece for 2 weeks next month. My mother was buried there in 2004 and we need to take her relics back home. It's the Orthodox tradition to bury dead people instead of cremating them.

Biajee and I have submitted visa applications to Los Angeles and we hope to get our passports back some time this week so that we can buy plane tickets.

The Consulate of Greece doesn't have a very user-friendly website. I could not find the amount of visa fee online anywhere. When I called and obtained the information from the answering machine, they told us that the amount was outdated so we had to overnight another money order to the Visa Department.

Greek people do not value punctuality either. While we were there in 2004, people from the funeral company were always more than an hour late for our appointments. It'll be interesting to observe their behavior this time.