The skyline of the village of Vorizia, Crete, Greece. NIKOS CHALKIADAKIS/EPA/Shutterst

Right before Thanksgiving, I spent a week in Greece with my husband and our six kids.

If you’ve ever wanted to feel like a celebrity, turning heads everywhere you go, I recommend taking a gaggle of children to a country with a plunging birth rate .

Across the European Union, birth rates are far below replacement level — and Greece is among the lowest, with the average woman having 1.3 children in her lifetime.

Touring it with six kids made me feel like I was traveling with a circus troupe.

Everywhere we went, people stared.

They counted the children aloud (I learned the number six in Greek, éxi , because I heard so many people tallying how many kids we had).

They smiled politely and encour

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