Vocabulary: dirt = Dreck / carpet / coincidence / self-employed / 42 degrees / on the mainland / under the big rock / steps = outdoor / stairs = indoors / They hid up there on the top of the rock from the Turks / 12 Gods / Greek mythology / valley / river / last time I “did” the trip, I was 19 / It’s not worth (Es lohnte sich nicht) doing to the trip for less than 3 weeks / It didn’t matter (Es war egal) how long the trip was / We could chat (schnacken) in the car / We used to play a game (ein Spiel) / to see which rain drop would make it to the end of the car window first / We would try to spot a “particular” (bestimmtes) car / My father used to always point out the Ferrari factory or the stadium / There are a lot of palm trees there / You can drive along the coast / There are more foreigners (Auslander) there than local (Einheimisch)people / There are more beautiful places than that / People are good at English because they watch TV in original tone / Now I have itchy feet. That means that I feel I have to travel there.
Grammar: better as than in Germany / Greece = country / Greek = Language and people / The son from my cousin my cousin’s son
Homework: Follow this link to the exercises on Past Simple.