tourism on naxos, in fact, is on an uptick.u when you said, you know, "i'm gonna go to naxos and i'm gonna run a dive center." i know my parents would've said, "you should do something sensible with a future, like banking." as it turns out, this was a sensible career choice, i guess. so cheers to that. >> yes, yamas. >> around 25% of the nation are unemployed now. they say that about 40% are living close to the poverty line. that's apparently the mainland? and yet tourism is stable and maybe even growing. >> well, it is, it is getting bigger even though it is completely opposite with a crisis. >> so people are basically saying, "oh, financial crisis, beautiful islands, beautiful country." >> yes. >> "now is the time to go 'cause we can get it for cheap." >> tourism is the only thing i believe that saved greece. apart from this area, every other thing collapsed. >> it's really beautiful. ♪ ♪ >> madea, antigone, helen of troy, aphrodite, demeter -- greek women have always been known for their beauty, their fierceness, their stren

on naxos in particular, where zeus himself was said to live.here his son dionysus frolicked and presumably drank and threw orgies and dropped e, and danced all night to the bc version of edm. these days you have to go over to mykonos for that. anyway lambros here runs a bar