Per the suggestion of Andreas, we walked over to Tavern Simos for dinner on Tuesday night, where there was one other table of tourists and a couple of tables of locals watching football. It was a pretty cold night, so we sat right by the fire to begin what turned into a 7 hour dinner. To start we had amazing olive oil and tzatziki sauce with bread. Tina had roasted lamb chops with rice, and I had pork stewed in wine sauce … both were really good. We started off by ordering a carafe of house wine, and the friendly waiter brought us 2 or 3 more carafes on the house. He commented on how lively our conversation was and said we should keep it going with more wine J He then brought us shots of ouzo on the house and then asked if we liked it. Apparently our response was just so-so because then he brought out shots of raki, a local liquor distilled from grape leaves … rather strong but tasty. At this point we had outlasted the locals, and the waiter and cook joined us at our table with more shots of raki. And it was actually like a home-brew coming from a big plastic bottle. Dimos, the waiter/host, and Kiriakos, the chef, talked with us until Yasas ... shots of Raki! And a napkin where we explored the spelling of God in all the languages we know ...
Notes from our Greek Lesson from Dimos
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Work sucks lately. If I had any savings, I would just move my plane ticket up and come live in a car at your school. Do they have winnebagos in France? No? Ok, see you on the Med then.
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