
In Crete 16th-30th May 2006
#41
Posted 29 March 2006 - 04:48 PM
#42
Posted 29 March 2006 - 05:13 PM



you were there for this remarkable event.............................and will possibly be barred from entering Matala for the foreseeable future.





It's not the number of breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away.
#43
Posted 29 March 2006 - 06:16 PM
#44
Posted 29 March 2006 - 06:38 PM
It's not the number of breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away.
#45
Posted 29 March 2006 - 10:32 PM
#46
Posted 03 April 2006 - 03:37 PM
#47
Posted 03 April 2006 - 08:40 PM
#48
Posted 20 April 2006 - 07:52 PM
Hiya Henry, do you have a supplier in the UK ???? or do you bring loads back with you the thought that i might be able to get some here would help in my re-aquantance of it's healing properties..............a few glasses and you don't bother about how you feel, in fact feeling is the last thing you get. ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,
Sorry, my apologies, I complete forgot to answer this one.
Well, the last time we were in Paleochora (18 months ago), the lad in the place where we had stayed for three weeks gave us a parting present, like his Mum had done two years before.
He gave us a large bottle of raki - and I consider one and a half litres of raki to be a large quantity! In fact, we still have a bit left that was similarly given to us, but which is of vintage 1988. Still tastes and smells just fine, by the way.
So we don’t actually drink a lot of the stuff back here in the UK, as you can gather; it somehow doesn’t taste the same when you can’t head the Med or the cicadas, when you can’t smell the thyme and that particular aroma of Crete that I imagine we all know and love. We use it mainly for ‘medicinal purposes’, and of course occasionally when we have visitors.
Oh, incidentally, his Mum had given us a nice little jar of Cretan honey. We managed to finish that rather quicker.
Henry.
#49
Posted 21 April 2006 - 09:37 AM
It's not the number of breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away.
#50
Posted 21 April 2006 - 05:11 PM
Just to let you know that I am doing my best and having a hard time

- giant shrimps saganaki
- clams saganaki
- stuffed wineleaves (I know they have a special name, but I forgot, anyway "homemade")
- red mullets
- seabrass
- giant crab (which was sooooooooo delicious, I've never had anything like it)
Oh, and then we had some of those cookies with honey ... but since we accompanied everything with a couple of excellent bottles of white wine I also forgot the name of those!).
Well, of course we were offered a few glasses of rakis to help us on our way home...
I don't recall having paid anything, but maybe my daughter took care of that.
Maybe I should try a couple of places more just to make sure....

#51
Posted 21 April 2006 - 05:36 PM
if you forget the name of food so quickly, then how will you learn Greek?
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#52
Posted 21 April 2006 - 06:15 PM

It's not the number of breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away.
#53
Posted 21 April 2006 - 06:38 PM

Mabybe Yianni is fooling around

But I must say that beeing able to edit your own mail is a structural improvement

Fixing my avatar problem is second best

#54
Posted 21 April 2006 - 06:45 PM
- stuffed wineleaves (I know they have a special name, but I forgot, anyway "homemade")
Is this dolmades?
Henry.
#55
Posted 21 April 2006 - 07:00 PM
#56
Posted 21 April 2006 - 10:01 PM
If I may suggest that we don't decide yet on the restaurant and the food until we finally know who is coming and what eachone would like to eat. For example I am alergic to onions and garlic and Iam not thrilled about giant crabs and sea food specially when I know that in the Greek sea one can neither fish giant crabs nor prawns. They can be found in the sea but they are very rare and expensive. They have started now producing them in artificial ponds feeding them god knows what to make them grow fast. As a matter of fact I read a report that they are feeding them same garbage they were giving for years to the cows before mad cow disease developed. Sorry to break the news and cut your appetite but taste is one thing quality is another. I will be happy with Horta and saganaki some yogurt and fruit thank you very much!. Dolmades unless made locally by the restaurant ( very rare phenomenon,but can be found) are coming from cans which the restaurants buy from Macro in Heraklion.
Even the french fries served in most restaurants in Matala are coming frozen. So I recommend that we have some consensus about the restaurant and the food among all those who are planning to participate in this dinner. Also since all of us will be meeting with each other for the first time I think we will be puting more emphasis on the company and atmosphere rather than the food.
By the way the cookies with the honey ? Those are original and home made. You should better eat them though in the morning since they are quite heavy for the stomach if you eat more than three in the evening. Lol!!
#57
Posted 22 April 2006 - 07:11 PM
By the way, the Dolmades were homemade, made by the mother of the house, no canned stuff, and they were yummmmmmmy

Ton, a bit of preparation is always nice if you want a good result, otherwise you would have to depend on luck, which is not always present.

#58
Posted 22 April 2006 - 09:21 PM
What a lot of crab about the food....


What a pitty I can't be there, or at least view this spectacle

#59
Posted 23 April 2006 - 02:24 PM
Santo and me we will drink a raki to your health on the 20th of May.
#60
Posted 23 April 2006 - 02:46 PM