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First things first, wearing all black for about 6 hours in 38 celcius is not fun.
Now, I may have only been to one funeral that I remember, but they don't half do things differently over there.
For a start half of the people who turned up didn't even bother wearing black, some women were wearing flip flops and bright nail varnish, others low cut tops and short skirts. Not exactly funeral attire...
The ceremony was something new, 20 minutes of some greek jabbering by three priests after which everyone in attendance lined up and gave their condolances to my mum and her side of the family and her brother and his side of the family.
As for the burial, that was something most people though was done badly. Firstly, the lowered the coffin in to the grave via two blokes, two ropes and much bashing against the sides and tombstone. Secondly, they proceeded to fill the grave in there and then, covering half of the mourners in soil dust, as well as stepping on the all the surrounding graves during this process.
All in all it went well, but the whole burial thing did not go down well.
