I grew up in Cyprus in the 1950's/1960's where unfortunately the natives were trying to kill us so we came back to England. I thought my Greek was pretty good until I went back to living in the greek islands for about a year and realised I had forgotten everything. 10 years on and my Greek is again pathetic. One thing I did learn is tht no matter how distateful, how nsophisticated and unwordly it may all seem -I became part of a Britpack when I was abroad and although had a few Greek pals I can hold my hand up and confess that I pretty much hung out with an expat mob - is that other people's experience?