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4:00pm: at the hotel in Athens taking a breather after a fun morning. Went to breakfast around 8:30 and said we weren’t going to have that much but they offered us scrambled eggs today and that sounded good so we had that plus all kinds of delicious offerings off the huge buffer...and probably (definitely) ate too much before a food tour...
Anyway, walked up about 15 minutes to the north and met our guide Julia and others on our Airbnb experience food tour. There were 8 of us total and a fun group of mostly Americans. Our first stop was the last remaining shop in Athens that makes its own yogurt the traditional way with sheep’s milk. We got yogurt with walnuts and honey and Greek coffee, which is STRONG. I hate yogurt typically but this wasn’t as bad. We then went to a multitude of other tastings - tons of olives, cheese, cured meats, wine, breads, you name it. We had lunch at a hole in the wall right inside the meat market and then a traditional custard dessert. In all it was a super fun morning/early afternoon that was filling and educational, too!
Luckily the tour ended right near our hotel so we came back for a quick rest and then set out to enjoy our last afternoon but after almost three weeks of perfect weather, it was raining. So we went into a bar and had a drink - I finally found some Greek hard cider! By the time we finished, the rain died down and we wandered/shopped a bit and then came back here for a rest. After three weeks of travel we are getting tired easily!
7:45pm: Back at the hotel for a very early night because we have to wake up around 3:00am tomorrow for our flight home. We ended up wandering around our neighborhood and looking at a few menus but nothing struck us, so we wandered a couple minutes to what Rick Steves calls “Souvlaki Row” and ate at Thanasis (I think). Matt had a pork gyro pita and I had a chicken souvlaki pita and that plus an order of fries and a bottle of water was under 10 euros, delicious, and exactly what we wanted for our last dinner. During our wandering we had walked past a busy place making traditional Greek donuts called loukoumades, so we went back for dessert. I had them stuffed with what essentially tasted like Nutella and Matt had ice cream. Now we are back packing and will go to bed quite early for that wake-up call.
Hopefully the three of you who read this blog enjoyed it - and until next time!!!
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