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Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. ✅ Quick Answer The Greece etiquette that actually trips up visitors: a café frappé or freddo is meant to anchor a table for an hour or more with zero pressure to order again, so rushing it looks odd. Tipping is light: round up or leave 5-10% at tavernas, never 15-20%. Churches and monasteries require shoulders and knees covered, no exceptions. And “siga siga” (slowly, slowly) is the real local rhythm behind late meals, unhurried service and ferries that leave when they leave. ETIAS is not required to enter Greece in 2026 (it’s been pushed to April 2027); the 90/180-day Schengen rule still applies. The Frappé Nobody Was Rushing Me Through I ordered a freddo cappuccino at a café off Plaka’s back streets, finished it in maybe fifteen minutes the way I would at home, and started looking around for the check. The waiter just refilled my water glass and kept walking. It took a second frappé and a longer sit before I understood: nobody was coming to hurry me along, because that’s not how the table works here. An hour later I was still there, watching the street do its thing, and it was the best hour of the day. ...