01 September 2007
Greece 2
Grandmaster BK wins the prize for best response to the news that I'm in greece, with his
Pan-Hellenic pickup lines:
- Excuse me, is this where they keep the urns?
- (Pointing to stylishly torn jeans on another
person): Euripides?
- (Slowly spinning, with arms held majestically aloft
in a public square): Wow, Ancient Rome is really
magnificient!
the sister and i are having a fantastic time, involving octopi, volcanoes, and a looooot of olive oil. pictures when i get home. lots of amazing, post-card pictures when i get home. :D
ps. we are in the islands, not on the mainland where people keep dying in wildfires. no fire here, just a lot of smoke on the horizon - which makes for interesting sunsets. servus!
Pan-Hellenic pickup lines:
- Excuse me, is this where they keep the urns?
- (Pointing to stylishly torn jeans on another
person): Euripides?
- (Slowly spinning, with arms held majestically aloft
in a public square): Wow, Ancient Rome is really
magnificient!
the sister and i are having a fantastic time, involving octopi, volcanoes, and a looooot of olive oil. pictures when i get home. lots of amazing, post-card pictures when i get home. :D
ps. we are in the islands, not on the mainland where people keep dying in wildfires. no fire here, just a lot of smoke on the horizon - which makes for interesting sunsets. servus!
Labels: greece
26 August 2007
Crete
Heraklion is happening. The intrepid sister has come to visit. We stayed 2 days in Germany, drinking beers at the big religious festival (anniversary of founding of the church on the bar-lined street). The street transforms, with special discos opening just for this weekend.
We drank vodka brause (put pop rocks into your mouth and wash it down with a vodka shot) and danced our pants off. in the morning we drank smoked hefeweizen and ate sausages and pretzels with sweet mustard.
then we took a cab to the train station, and a train to the airport, and a plane to Crete. tomorrow we will try to find our way out of the labyrinth at knossos before the minotaurs eat us.
it is warm and beautiful and relaxed here. the hibiscus flowers are blooming bright red. we visited a byzantine cathedral (painted to the gills). the people are charming and warm. all the girls are in skirts and little dresses (us too!). there is much drinking of coffee, and we are looking forward to octopi and ouzo. *eee* greece!
We drank vodka brause (put pop rocks into your mouth and wash it down with a vodka shot) and danced our pants off. in the morning we drank smoked hefeweizen and ate sausages and pretzels with sweet mustard.
then we took a cab to the train station, and a train to the airport, and a plane to Crete. tomorrow we will try to find our way out of the labyrinth at knossos before the minotaurs eat us.
it is warm and beautiful and relaxed here. the hibiscus flowers are blooming bright red. we visited a byzantine cathedral (painted to the gills). the people are charming and warm. all the girls are in skirts and little dresses (us too!). there is much drinking of coffee, and we are looking forward to octopi and ouzo. *eee* greece!
Labels: greece
