Indifferent Voices - Where's the Ouzo?

The drinking, yes the drinking. The drinking is very different to the drinking in my country. You English drink a lot. All the time. In the week you are going out after work and drinking. And one thing I notice. When you sit down in a restaurant, always someone is jumping up and down wanting to order some drinks, to keep you going, during you read the menu. What is that? You cannot wait?
 
You drink a lot and you drink so quickly. You drink wine like it is water. In Greece we do not do this. In Greece, say it is a sunny day. Yes, in Greece it is always a sunny day, and so we sit in the sun and it is nice, and we are relaxing and we are talking and we are happy and so, sometimes, only sometimes, we say shall we have a drink, and sometimes we do. We have one drink. Because it is sunny and we are happy.
 
In England, it is different. In England, sometimes it is a sunny day, so people sit outside and they drink and they drink and they drink. And then they are happy.
 
(Eleni Gianopolos – derivatives trader)