orange picking in greece

[benarroch15]

let me ask you something...

do you know sulli neon cafe in napflio ?

i was there in 87...

pick orange from 7 am til 16pm get pay 3000 drahgma..

we can still get a job there? today.. and how much they pay us?

[adraganz]

I'm very sorry to any inflammation of the economic crisis Greece.

Neither had not been highly developed, but was there a good standard in relation to prices and wages.

[imegatanadoiataki]

thanks for this video

[goeri2]

Isn´t there any literature about those days. Nobody wrote a book about that era? Even a novel perhaps?

[Wysiwygnuttyjo51]

I was there in 84 with Troy (Japanese Canadian) and the following year with ginger haired/bearded Simon, Max and a few others! I remember we were there at Xmas and pinching some street decorations to put in our room! Remember Mark n Tess, Jamjar and bald headed Luna and loads of others!

[Wysiwygnuttyjo51]

Great video....brought back some great memories! I was there in '84 and '85! I knew people who were arrested for sleeping in the caves and we had a whipround to get them outta jail! Loved cafe Neon....great atmosphere of an evening...also used to go in a pub, too, just down from the cafe but there was always trouble!

[ACLemmyAFiverDC]

Brings back all the great memories you have it spot on Archie I was there 82, 3 and 4 great days Thanks for this ( Casey )

[papacha7]

Was in Naff 83, scottish charlie and julie. Costas cafe, bean soup, retsina, cherry cognac, Maggot ( where the fuck is he) Was there in 82 as well slept on the beach had a ball. Brilliant memories. Still in touch with big Al, hes in Iceland now. Went to sth of france next summer on beach. Thanks for the memories.

[garryentropy]

@papacha7 I knew maggot Last i heard years ago was that he was begging at gare du nord paris, what about billy from fleetwood, brian from northern ireland, last time i saw him he was uncocious pissed in the fountain at avingon, yassas

[garryentropy]

@papacha7 I knew maggot Last i heard years ago was that he was begging at gare du nord paris, what about billy from fleetwood, brian from northern ireland, last time i saw him he was uncocious pissed in the fountain at avingon, yassas

[adraganz]

I have fond memories of `90, 91 from Napflio when we are picking oranges, drank and spent it.

Greetings to friends from France, England, Argentina, Portugal ... etc..

Kafenio Costa (Suli) hahaha

Dragan, Serbia

[imegatanadoiataki]

@adraganz do you mean Suli, one of the two brothers of the Harry's Bar? I've been there in winter 90-91 too. Marco, Trst

[adraganz]

@imegatanadoiataki

Yes, I meant to them.

I was there about 6 months and enjoyed myself.

Even drachma was in circulation. Greetings from Serbia.

[imegatanadoiataki]

@adraganz yeah, even Jugoslavija :(( It seems centuries ago. No internet, no cell phones, nothing, just people, beer and fucking oranges. I felt in love for the first time also, with a girl from London ))) Ciao

[adraganz]

@imegatanadoiataki

I was with two other Serbs my best friend.

One met a girl from Canada and one from the USA. Now they both live there with two children.

The only thing I stayed in Serbia.

[archibaldh123]

Memories eh, I was in nafplion 84-85 I think archi with aussie Liz. Stayed in hotel cementos with Jam jar johnnie, von dage pete alki all and a whole crowd of nutters. Brilliant times ur video sums it up well Archi.

[garryentropy]

@archibaldh123 mad but great times, johnnies dead in the 3 brothers cemetry, quite a few of lads didnt get out, best garry

[pungaloman]

@archibaldh123 hi ya Archie,get on facebook mate were all there,go to nafplion orange pickers,and you will find us!..hope yo get in touch soon,cockney AL

[punteral101]

@archibaldh123 OI Archie,cockney AL here,you can find a load of us on facebook,just type in nafplion orange pickers.

[serenagrimaldi1]

Chicken for lunch!!, you don't know you're born, mostly cold pasta if I remember rightly

[websterar]

Brilliant I did the orange picking in 1985 in Nafplion.I rememder Harry and Costa's cafe and had a few kilos in there. Did you go to Yorgos soup kitchen? that was a place, a big plate of soup and bread followed by a few kilos of retsina. What a mad town it was i've never had sing songs like it. We must have driven the locals mental with our fighting and drinking and singing.

Scottish Andy

[fredjma]

thanks mate, i cant believe i found this. I was in Mikines (few miles from nafplion) picking oranges and living in a cave during winter 1990. what a memory , It was exactly as you narrated .waiting at the local mini market to be picked up and drinking cognac for breakfast. 'ena kilo krasee para-kalo' was really useful to know . Thanks again , Frederic