When I lived in Athens in the early 1980s and the August heat hung heavily, a group of us would take a bus to a spring-fed lake on the city’s outskirts.
The water was cleaner than the nearby sea and there was a pleasant restaurant where, according to the English menu, you could choose between “fresh prawns” and “frigid prawns”. If those did not appeal, there were “caned sardines”.
Greek islands’ English was often more creative than the capital’s. On Patmos there was a sign on the beach that said “No nuding aloud”.
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