he doesn't want to let us take a look inside he's too embarrassed on his way to work he passes several hotels where he used to work as a bell boy at the sight of his successes he recalls the physical strain of the job . he began lugging suitcases here when he was just age sixteen illegal worked for a miner but no one cared. for the first year was really funny i used volleyball for ten years so i was grew stronger because it was not a problem for me but we were having next year you're doing worst and worst one moment you're saying oh i can do a time or you don't have any. of this for your legs you know but. one suitcase can often weigh as much as thirty kilograms asian guests in particular travel with large amounts of luggage many are wary of foreign food unpack their own cooking utensils this is evens fourth run this morning carrying suitcases to the

loading area he's got ten arrivals and ten departures to take care of today that's fifty to sixty six cases in just one day. so much that. traffic on the main road is already a standstill but the hustle and bustle doesn't bother it's the only time of the day he has for socializing even if it's only a quick cigarette with his fellow countryman. does bar work pay well with. one of the it's ok you've just got to negotiate i think i've earned one thousand and fifty euros for nine years now when you know what you're going to use him for part of snobbery and if you complain your the bad guy you know i've never gone to my boss and asked of him my money will go to them which is about you know. if you don't go you'll never get a raise if you work another ten years for the same wage yet what of the nation i

know yesterday was really tough she used to go and guns because there were so many cases the girls at reception reckon i'd earned a packet but you can see what i earn it's got a couple of just got to have a guest house five or six suitcases but tips you just to euro's if they give you anything at all. when you want to just go but you've got to live up to them no one believes you and laughs if you tell them you lose twenty kilos of way to season i thought of modern methods but i've not had a day off since march with the solid months without a day off so what it. just at that time is it. five to ten that. i've got to go was good to see you take care you don't work too hard. and i know that next on easy season see a. video heads off past honeymooning couples

posing for their picture. the sight of so much love and happiness makes it even harder to be alone. could have been shown consoles himself by ringing his wife. oh lena plans to visit him in a few weeks time with their son the last time teacher saw him he was still a baby he'll have to organize a cot for the boy and he mustn't forget to water something special from the butcher's as a welcoming gift it's a bulgarian tradition. ok sweetheart. i'm going to get going from the. who will talk again soon as she go to him. by phone now. seasonal workers like rachel and even almost double the population some sereny but it's the tourists who really upset the balance eighty five thousand a day and that doesn't include the countless cruise ship passengers who visit the

island for just a few hours and a few drinks. manages the pool he hired rachel four years ago. good he's very strong who's doing everything where they all fees everything. and you gonna find it. easy if you. like gary and and for. can tell you didn't know me yet because they were cool and some money cool for me to fire me. they don't do it for. work for wasting their money for themselves. and this is not the same house about

oh i think i look like oh yes that's what i'll be up to we can. get. that up he's a nice life he's a bit of style he's very thankful you can hear. from him doing something it's not so easy here to find someone to be so prone to so and i just you know i'm fit and the most important to his. head the sense of he'll. because i was just so. very nice. very nice thank you and. then. even though lifts would make service sector jobs a lot easier hotels are not allowed to install them everything has to look just like it did in the past the way people imagine greece. isn't even

worried that his job might ruin his health. now how yes i feel it at home every morning when i can't get up. for them and everything hurts i don't know what with this. one with this but i keep telling myself that in five years' time or maybe only in ten i'll need a walking stick. is that. bottle. i wonder whether i'll even reach sixty. or. a day. what i did on top of

that because. most hotel guests spend only a short time on the island too short to remember the names of the bellboys but long enough to encounter one of the transport donkeys which are gradually disappearing from the landscape donkey droppings are not exactly the image of luxury tourism. you're more. preoccupied with themselves and that picture perfect looks guests fail to notice that the island has long since lost its soul. after the devastating nine hundred fifty six earthquake level buildings on the island many locals were forced to leave in their wake tourist industry greed spread unchecked destroying the island's rural character. we asked even how much longer he plans to stay in his job . with a brick or third i first have to cross myself so that god will help me my dream is to go back home to bug area and open a supermarket here. is a birth and business or something is that what it is

a big market that's my dream to have my own business and it's one i hope to realize in one or two years time three at the most it is going to a lot better than a. little book. but i think they're going to work here in greece for twenty nine years one more will make it thirty it's time to return home from a lot of them. even is now forty three he lives on center in him with his ball gary and wife and their daughter who goes to school here. so doesn't he now call the island home. before he can answer even has to sit down to catch his breath. and someone does have the folder for the. little let me tell you why i want to go back to bog area.

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