Taxi and the Taverna Scam
There were the occasions when we wanted to go somewhere that required a cab and each time we asked the cab driver to take us to a designated restaurant he counseled us "no, no, you don't want to go there.... I take you to a restaurant by the water! A restaurant where even my mother likes to eat. A restaurant where you eat real GREEK food!" Finally, when we were too tired and too beaten down to protest anymore, and the dirt and grime of Athens covered us we said, what the heck, we'd like to be by the water... take us there!"We should have been suspicious when someone from the restaurant staff ran to the taxi and opened the door, beckoning us down the stairs from the street into a pleasant taverna situated near the water in a marina. And further suspicion may have been aroused when the waiter whisked away our menus before we had a chance to look at them, presenting instead a platter of...
