Traveling to Greece

“Malaka” is probably the first Greek slang tourists hear. You’ll catch locals tossing it around casually, and it can sound either friendly or aggressive — context is everything.

More old photos from Greece of 1903-1930, photos by Fred Boissonnas that show a quiet and different world

The Philhellene Swiss photographer Fred Boissonnas(1858-1946) was the first foreign photographer who traveled so much in the Greek land from 1903 and for nearly three decades following

Here are some elder Greek pictures from 1900 to 1930, photos from the period before the first world war