I first suggested the idea of doing a television series about Greece quite some time ago but it became more and more relevant given the financial and refugee crises in recent years.
People traditionally associate the country with ancient history, beaches and, perhaps, the smashing of dinner plates, but few of us fully recognise its geographical position. We've embraced it as the bedrock of European civilisation, but it's also a place that's very much at the crossroads of east and west, where different cultures and customs have mixed and blended over the centuries. You get a very interesting cultural experience as a result.
But the thing that surprised me the most was the variety and the exotic extremes of the country.
This is a place that encompasses sunny shorelines in the south and forested mountains in the far north that look like the Canadian Rockies, a land where bears and wolves roam wild and the temperature often drops to well below freezing.
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