My Big Fat Greek Weekend
I read this book a decade ago and ever since then I held a tiny wish to land myself in Greece on this special date based on a philosophy I held so dearly. There are 52 cards in a deck and not coincidentally 52 weeks in a year. Every four years come a leap year, like every four suits there will be a Joker.
29th February is the Joker’s day.
So the odds have it that I am 10 hours away from Greece and so the spontaneous adventure begins…
Thessaloniki – with no map, no accommodation, no plan. Diagnostic procedure: internet café.
Greek salad, feta cheese with pink peppers
Grandmother’s Cheese Pie
Rabbit with mavrodafmi wine & almonds, vinegar, daphne, black pepper, cinnamon and nutmeg
Deer in chocolate sauce with xinomavro, pepper, cinnamon, clove, cumin & homemade cocoa pasta
Patsavouropitta (traditional treacly), served with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce
The highlight of the trip was that full blown three course Greek lunch at Mount Olympus (yes, where Zeus is) signature restaurant.
Telios! is ‘perfect!’ in Greek, and it was.
I have a 29th-February-Greece stamped on my passport!
Oi, what a trip, what a time. What a way to make it happen.
Comment by prairieox — March 8, 2008 @ 4:39 pm
when i land myself in vancouver, i’ll savour it in the same tradition.
Comment by Tutee Ng — March 9, 2008 @ 4:50 am
i see ur having fun.
*envy*
when will it ever be my turn…
Comment by yali — March 10, 2008 @ 9:20 pm
AWESOME!
Babe your photography skills are improving! (or izzit the new camera?) haha.
dARN you make me wanna fly away like R.I.G.H.T N.O.W!
Comment by suan — March 16, 2008 @ 4:20 pm