Already one million tourists have arrived – spilling out of archaeological sites and the narrow alleyways of the picturesque Plaka district beneath the Acropolis, piling into restaurants and cafes and cramming the stores that sell the fodder of every classic Greek holiday: sandals, statues, T-shirts and bags.
Now I fill it right up, cramming everything in.
The Man in the High Castle features a few of the typical pilot wobbles – an overreliance on exposition, a slight willingness to prioritise the cramming in of plot details over character development – but its grand vision and murky, stylised tone more than make up for it.
It rubberstamped the fad for cramming every inch of every catalogue and shop window with dreadful Keep Calm and Carry On knock-offs.
We often travel around by "taxi", which involves cramming as many people as possible into a van, invariably with Guyanese music blaring out as it hurtles through the streets, the driver singing along enthusiastically.
We spent ages beforehand minimising the amount of damage we'd make – abandoning the pram in favour of a baby carrier, cramming all the assembled going-out paraphernalia into tiny satchels, deliberately picking a quiet train, and finding the most obscured seats in case he needed to breastfeed – and hoped against hope that he wouldn't cry.
There's nothing like cramming 10 people and a bottle of vodka into a two-man tent during a freak summer snowstorm for creating a sense of bonhomie.
But this week I've been filling it right up, cramming everything in, then switching it on before I go to bed.
But a preliminary answer from the meeting is that social and liberal democracy is about cramming 500 people with the most formidable personal hygiene problems every assembled at a British party conference, into a room built to accommodate 50.
Our finding confirms lots of other research: if you want to study effectively, you should spread out your revision rather than cramming.
Last-minute cramming refuses to sink in, because the consolidation of memories occurs during deep sleep.
