From what I have seen in Greece, people often speak just Greek. But it really does depend on where you go and who you talk to. Here in Thessaloniki, since it is a bigger city, most people can speak English.There have been some moments, though, where I was trying to talk to someone and they didn’t speak English but could speak other languages. When my friends and I were coming home from the airport, we were trying to grab a taxi but the driver only spoke Greek and German. Luckily, my friend Lia speaks German pretty fluently, so we were able to get a ride and talk to with our driver on the way home.
In Greece they use euros! They are pretty similar to dollars except they use different colors. While money in the United States is mostly green, in Greece a five euro bill is green, but a ten euro bill is red, a twenty is blue and a fifty is orange. Additionally, the bills also have little metallic strips that glisten when you hold them up to the light! Another fun thing about this currency is that there are no one euro bills! Instead, they use coins for one and two euros. They don’t have a 25 cent coin, but they do have a 20 cent coin. It took me a while to get used to the differences, but I get it now!
