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by EMILY DEAN
Recently, I was chatting with friends about memorable holiday experiences. The awe-inspiring adventures kept on coming. Swimming in Iceland’s Blue Lagoon, seeing the sun rise over Machu Picchu. And then the ‘vacation moment I’ll never forget’ baton came to me. My contribution was slightly less exotic: a comment made by a Greek waiter when my father complained about the service.
The incident occurred on the island of Rhodes at a rustic hillside restaurant we’d traipsed to so my father could sample the undiscovered Greece. His main discovery was how fabulously unfazed this eatery was by any concept of time. When a menu failed to materialise after 45 minutes, the waiter laughed, ‘Soon!’ before sitting down at a nearby table to smoke a cigarette. ‘It’s how they do things here,’ my father smiled, ‘you must respect the local culture.’