A few bits and piecesMy daughter Elli introduced me to something newCigarette etiquette 
When you open a new packet...... Which most of you will never doYou turn one cigarette upside down and make a wish. Then you leave this for last. I followed her instructions.... and took it out absentmindedly and lit the damn thing at the wrong end. Typical. I've stopped smoking cigarettes and vape instead. Sparingly. Neither habits are cheap, or healthy, but I can buy vapes without nicotine and with interesting flavours. Salted caramel, g & t.
When you open a new packet...... Which most of you will never doYou turn one cigarette upside down and make a wish. Then you leave this for last. I followed her instructions.... and took it out absentmindedly and lit the damn thing at the wrong end. Typical. I've stopped smoking cigarettes and vape instead. Sparingly. Neither habits are cheap, or healthy, but I can buy vapes without nicotine and with interesting flavours. Salted caramel, g & t. 
From niece Niki in NZHere we had tzatziki crisps but I've never seen souvlaki flavoured, and extra crunchy
From Grandaughter NelsLast night's sunset, a brilliant orange . The sky all afternoon was covered in smoke from wildfires around Athens and produced these intense colours as the sun went down. The shop where Nels is working this summer makes their own ice cream. They're working on gin and tonic and Pina colada ice cream. Her boss is a master baker and avant garde ice cream maker, the best on the island.Yesterday was one of the hottest yet. At 11pm we were down at the harbour drinking 'coffee'. It was still very hot and sweaty with hardly a breeze. It was a lovely evening anyway with Poppi and her Mum and Dad. Today isn't much better but tomorrow the heat will let up a little. We hope. 8pm now and there's a hot wind and little relief.
From the Facebook group Hellenic World
From Grandaughter NelsLast night's sunset, a brilliant orange . The sky all afternoon was covered in smoke from wildfires around Athens and produced these intense colours as the sun went down. The shop where Nels is working this summer makes their own ice cream. They're working on gin and tonic and Pina colada ice cream. Her boss is a master baker and avant garde ice cream maker, the best on the island.Yesterday was one of the hottest yet. At 11pm we were down at the harbour drinking 'coffee'. It was still very hot and sweaty with hardly a breeze. It was a lovely evening anyway with Poppi and her Mum and Dad. Today isn't much better but tomorrow the heat will let up a little. We hope. 8pm now and there's a hot wind and little relief.
I do hope it will be more comfortable for you tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteInteresting crisps - I always stick with ready salted or salt and vinegar - so dull!
I like plain salted and wavy .... ruff-less as theyre called here
DeleteThat is an impressive sunset photo. Looks like your world is on fire.
ReplyDeleteThe colours were brilliant. Everyone was taking photos of course. Facebook and instagram was full of them. Except on my page. Grandkids take better photos
DeleteI often buy 'variety packs' of crisps with various flavours. Our favourite game is 'Guess the Flavour'. They all taste the same; of msg!
ReplyDeleteYes, you're dead right there. Like instant noodles, which I don't eat anymore. The flavour is 'oversalted'
DeleteGreeks and their superstitions - they will make a wish on anything; everything is a sign.... Is Nels working in one of those ice cream places at the far (or is it near to you) end of the quay? Two or three close to one another - we counted 71 flavours of ice-cream in one and 63 in another!
ReplyDeleteThose icecream 'parlours' have icecream that is namebrand and very artificial. All theirs is made on the premises. Theyve moved recently to the waterfront. Can't remember where they were before. In one of the squares maybe. His speciality used to be amigthalota, almond cakes. Now he's branched out a lot.
Delete… and then settled for kaimaki (the one you can't get anywhere else).
ReplyDeleteGood old kaimaki. The greeks favourite with visina, cherry sauce. Love the story of the italian icecream in Nafplio. I know the place. And I prefer greek icecream rather than gelato.
DeleteGood grief though. He's lucky they have so many thousands of tourists through there all year round, otherwise he'd be shunned
Actually I have a story about kaimaki - I asked for it in an ice cream shop in Nafplio and the proprietor looked really haughty and sternly advised "we are an Italian ice-cream parlour".
ReplyDeleteHe'd obviously never heard the saying about "when in Rome…"
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