{"id":3999,"date":"2013-06-08T17:11:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T17:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2013-12-03T16:57:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T16:57:51","slug":"a-more-relaxing-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/?p=3999","title":{"rendered":"A More Relaxing Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Heather<\/a>

Heather and I – Lunch at the Poseidonion<\/p><\/div>\n

Compared to the last one, what a lovely week this has been.\u00a0 Healthwise, I am now feeling on top of my game … everyday has seen some improvement and I am even sleeping better than I have done\u00a0for a very long time.<\/p>\n

It was 2300 hours on Saturday night before I went to the Bar to meet Ray and Heather … ended up staying until closing when Costas\u00a0and I walked home in the rain around 0500 hours.\u00a0 By Sunday morning, the weather was simply heavenly … a bright blue sky and cobalt sea.\u00a0 I walked down to Agios Mammas beach to enjoy my swim and sunbathing … alas,\u00a0Sundays are never quite\u00a0as peaceful\u00a0there with an influx of children and day trippers from the mainland.\u00a0 That night, a quiet one spent\u00a0at home with, of course, the four cats to keep me company.<\/p>\n

Monday –\u00a0 the same heavenly weather and a peaceful spell at the beach.\u00a0 In the evening I went early to the Bar where I met Pavlos\u00a0… a fifth generation descendant of Laskarina\u00a0Bouboulina\u00a0– a\u00a0naval commander and heroine of the Greek War of Independence\u00a0in 1821.\u00a0 Pavlos’ father established the Bouboulina\u00a0Museum here on Spetses\u00a0… Pavlos\u00a0works as a guide there and lives on the ground floor.\u00a0 A very pleasant young man, well-educated and great company.<\/p>\n

Tuesday – Costas\u00a0wanted me at the Bar to open and mix up several kilos\u00a0of all the various nuts and seeds the customers nibble on, so I did that, then decided to forgo the beach for a day as at 1430 hours we were to meet Ray and Heather at the Poseidonion\u00a0Grand Hotel for lunch.\u00a0 Rather than choose from the menu, Dimitri the chef chose the dishes for us … in all,\u00a0ten plates to share – they just\u00a0kept coming.\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 What a fabulous lunch we had.\u00a0 Many of the dishes are not on the Verandah menu … we had a selection of breads with a beautiful dip, club sandwiches with smoked salmon and avocado, gravlax\u00a0with a green salad, another salmon dish, toast with puree\u00a0tomato and\u00a0anchovies, a smoked aubergine dish topped with a wild green that grows by the sea, the wonderful quinoa salad like we had a couple of weeks previously, a tahini\u00a0dish, a pasta dish, beef teriyaki\u00a0– again with the wild green from by the sea and the most beautiful chicken risotto.\u00a0 I think that was it and all without cheese which, of course, Costas does not eat.<\/p>\n

When Costas\u00a0went home for his siesta, I went with\u00a0Heather and Ray to meet up with Jerry and Marilyn at the 1800 Bar and Internet Cafe in Kounoupitsa.\u00a0 A couple of leisurely drinks there overlooking the sea, after which I hopped on to the back of Jerry’s quad and we were off to Rendezvous.\u00a0 From there it was a natural progression on to Bar Spetsa in the evening where\u00a0I kept company with Ray and Heather and Carolina, finally making it home around 0100 hours.<\/p>\n

Wednesday – beach, of course, then home to cook us an English breakfast.\u00a0 Bacon, eggs, sausages, mushrooms, onions, tomato and baked beans.\u00a0 In the afternoon, a young Greek girl – Katie, had challenged Costas\u00a0to a game of scrabble at Delfinia, so I went for a coffee and to watch\u00a0…\u00a0Costas\u00a0being the winner on the day.\u00a0\u00a0That evening spent in the Bar where\u00a0I had arranged to\u00a0meet Tea, the young Georgian woman who cleans and irons etc for Costas.<\/p>\n

Thursday – beach again but otherwise a fairly quiet day.\u00a0 I finished reading Victoria Hislop’s\u00a0“The Island” … a most enjoyable\u00a0novel about a family on Crete, an adaption\u00a0of which became the most successful television series ever broadcast in Greece.<\/p>\n

Friday – there was to be no beach this day … overcast and a few large droplets of rain which came to nothing.\u00a0 Lunch at Bouboulina\u00a0Restaurant … Fava\u00a0(split yellow pea dip), kolokithakia\u00a0tiganetes\u00a0(sliced courgette dipped in batter and fried) served with skordalia\u00a0(garlic dip) and half a kilo of\u00a0our favourite barbounakia\u00a0(small red mullet).\u00a0 By 2130 hours I was in Bar Spetsa\u00a0… like most nights, a quiet start, just four Greeks sitting at the bar, one of them the richest man in Greece.\u00a0 Carolina arrived later and we kept company for most of the night.\u00a0 As the Bar eventually became very busy, I was required to collect empty glasses and change ashtrays for a while … another 0500 hours closing.\u00a0 The last customers to leave were a group of four Englishmen … a father and son, the father’s brother and the skipper of the boat they were all on.\u00a0 They declared Bar Spetsa to be\u00a0the best bar in the world!<\/p>\n

Saturday – lunch today at Spetsiotiko\u00a0… took my time removing and devouring\u00a0the flesh of two small whole fish (species unknown) together with a lettuce salad, a little bread and a Fix beer.\u00a0 We have had our siesta, Costas has gone to the Bar and I will follow much later.<\/p>\n

Just another typical week of\u00a0my life on Spetses … returning to work and winter in New Zealand later this month aint\u00a0going to be easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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