meat on stick

So we left Crete a week ago to come to Corfu, which is the most northern of the Ionian Islands. Our 24 hours of traveling here included a nine hour ferry, an eight hour bus, and then another ferry. We have been staying in the old town of Corfu Town. It is a very trendy place, but still gives off a historical feeling, maybe because its built around a fortress. For most of the week here we’ve been staying in a rather chic hotel on the waterfront, where the receptionist with good English has become our main source of information. Corfu Town is bustling, but not with tourists. Actually we haven’t met one tourist here, which is odd.

            Greece has one specific menu. There are four different places to get food, the market, the restaurants, the bakeries, and the to-go windows. The markets all carry the same thing: bread, pasta, nuts, beer, and Ouzo. The restaurants all have the same menu: fried cheese, fried potatoes, mousaka (which is a potato meat lasagna thing that Dawson really likes), slovauki (meat on a stick), and spaghetti. The bakeries have all the same choices: cheese pies, spinach pies, seseme cheese donut thing, and baklava (a traditional greek sweet that is delicious). And our favorite, the to-go windows: A Crepe place or a Gyro place. We have been trying to stay away from the restaurants now because we kept forgetting that no matter what there is a down payment, which is the bread that comes, without choice, before anything else appears. And water is not automatically assumed, you have to ask and that cost money too.  We have been eating a lot of crepes lately, you probably already know that its an extremely thin, huge pancake. They make it into a wrap and put cheese and veggies and whatever you want on it and grill it to perfection. Or you can have a sweet one with melted chocolate and cookie crumbs and good stuff…

I have to say that I am done with the gyros now.

K sorry about all the food talk, but im hungry.

 We hitch a ferry to Italy later today. Yes its random, but in our original plan we would have found a place to settle for a little while by now. So since we cant stop moving around, and Italy is sooo close it is hard to pass it up.

 

Anyways get back to us with comments.

Kelsey thank you for showing the love so well.

Mykla you need to be more specific with what kind of cat you want, there is quite a selection over here.

And mom you would really dig Corfu town with all the tall buildings and wrought iron balconies.