'Tsipras has a bus full of people and has to change the wheel while driving'

As the eurozone crisis teeters towards a climax, some Greeks still hope for a radical solution, others for a deal of any kind, but all are fearful and weary

"It's all right, they can go ahead and do it now," said Vassili Michaelides, a systems analyst, turning away from the National Bank cashpoint on Syntagma Square in central Athens with a clutch of a20 notes.

"They haven't gone down on their knees and signed the first piece of paper they were given, like all the others. But it's time now to bring back a deal. Because honestly, nobody here can take this for much longer."