2016-05-11theguardian.com

A mild man in milder times, Nakos finds himself becoming increasingly angry. So, too, do the vast majority of Greeks who walked through his door on Monday. "Everyone's outraged, they've been swearing, insulting the government, calling [prime minister] Alexis Tsipras a liar," he exclaims after parliament's decision on Sunday night to pass yet more austerity measures. "And they're right. Everything he said, everything he promised, was a fairy tale."

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In his yellow Toyota, Giorgos Balabanis, a taxi driver for the past 15 years, puts it another way. His car, he insists, is a university of life. "All sorts" get in and out. "And what I am hearing every day is that until we leave the euro, until we return to the drachma, until we have a currency that is not so strong, things will never be right," he says. "Remember me because it's going to happen. There will be an explosion and Grexit and the drachma will come back."



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