Over the last week there have been people asking about cider avaiability and now guinness . Do people not travel anymore to try the LOCAL fare and drinks . What is there thats so wrong with Mythos , Amstel or even Ouzo . All I am trying to say is enjoy where you are and try local , you never know you might find something you like.
Cheers Dave
Ouzo with fanta lemon is lovely. I know fanta lemon isn't greek but I'm half way there!
The cocktails are very nice, but too many of them and you do regret it in the morning, that's why sometimes its nice to rely on good old faithful's (at least you know how many you can handle). Try a bit of everything I say!
I love ouzo and lemonade... the lemonade is very different in Greece.. its lovely on its own too.
Totally agree. The hours are ticking down now Smiffy!
I sorted out my wardrobe yesterday and put all the stuff I would like to take with me in a plastic hanger - probably wont be able to take all of it. Then I had a look at the hand luggage bags... I never seem to really crack it each year and think of having to buy another bag! I have so many to choose from. Lynda and I were saying how things have become smaller now so dont take up much space, like cameras and videos, MP3 players, although I do take speakers for that and Mike likes his DVD player for some R and R... I dont even have to take a kettle like we used to, and my hair drier is very small so I dont think I need such a big bag for hand luggage this year. Cant you see I am getting a tad excited...! I cant stop typing!!!!!!
I agree with the first post. Surely the point of going abroad is to experience new things, not just do the same as you would at home with a bit of extra sunshine.
I hate going to places abroad that are over run with English pubs and English breakfasts!
That's a good point about hand luggage. What are the restrictions now.
Infact I think that needs a new topic about it :)
In the evenings I am a wine drinker but during the day its either water or fanta orange. I agree the fanta is totally different over their its not so fizzy and tastes alot better than at home!
Have exhausted ouzo several years ago until i was sick on it. Im like that with most drinks. Have a favourite, drink it until i'm ill and then cant even bare the smell of it and have to move onto the next one and then repeat the process!!
I did that with Ouzo, I can't even drink pernod now and it used to be my fave drink with blackcurrent.
amanda
I love ouzo, it's one of my favourite drinks! (Although there's not much I don't drink, if you know what I mean)
;)
lynn
I'm like that with wine - managed to get to 33 before being sick with it (nothing at all to do with the full jar of pickled onions consumed at the same time!!). Can't stand the stuff now but still eat onions!
I love trying all the new things in Corfu - everything just tastes so lovely especially with a Mythos. Am a bit scared of trying the eggs anywhere tho cos I hate 'snotty' ones!
Quote from: Cheryl2307 on May 18, 2007, 02:10:03 PM
I'm like that with wine - managed to get to 33 before being sick with it
Hi Cheryl2307
Is that 33 glasses of wine, 33 bottles of wine or just aged 33. Ah Ah
amanda
Sorry - age 33!! But probably drank three bottles in less than three hours sitting in the sunshine which doesn't help! Was very, very ashamed of myself. Not telling where it happened!!
Hi all
we drink mythos during the day nice and cold and at night wine with our dinner egg and chips and on sunday a sunday roast humm haha
Blimey Cheryl I thought you meant 33 glasses of wine. Im glad you meant age 33. Not good too much wine and sun!
Come to think of it I think pernod and black was the first achoholic drink I was ill on - its all gone down hill from then!
I also think though a lot of people do like to have the taste of home whilst they are away it makes you appreciate things even more, which is better having a pint of cider in a grotty smoke filled pub or outside watching the sun go down over the sea in Arillas?
I mix and match, I love my full English in the morning but tend to go for a local dish in the evening. Drink wise, it's usually whatever is cheapest or a nice Greek wine of which there are now many :)
The Greek Chardonnay on the Horizon wine list is very nice.
Nick
Hmmmm anyone who knows me will know that I maintain I go to Greece to enjoy it for what it is, not a sunnier version of home. I do however have to admit to enjoying a full breakfast at Eleni's. So I suppose the moral is to enjoy your Greek experience as you want it. I'll be tucking into some sardines and Mythos in another 9 bays - Yipeeee!
Ivan
I agree with Joe. I try my very best to sample the local dishes and, indeed, consume vast quantities of the local wine but still maintain that the experience of drinking an ice cold cider whilst watching that sunset is my idea of heaven! If I wanted a hot version of the UK i would surely go to Benidorm or somewhere equally commercialised.
The od Metaxa or two goes down well! Oh and also Ursus (Vodka and slow berries) given as a shot in the cocont bar! Yammas!!
Forgot about Ursus... I really liked that when I had that in Crete, forgot I could have that so must remember to have another try in Corfu.
We have to admit that we like the occasion full english. I never wanted to eat it on holiday in Greece as it didnt quite seem to go with "when in Greece" but we thought what the heck, we are on holiday and can eat what we like. So, we tend to go for a long walk and come back in time for a nice leisurely late breakfast at the Captains. They do fantastic breakfasts there with the best fried bread ever, which I never eat as a rule as they are so fattening but taste light and lovely there, so I break the rules then. Its Mike's "reward" for me dragging him up and down the hot dusty lanes and hills around Arillas. That lasts us all day (in theory it should) until our lovely evening meal. At the Captains you also get juice, pot of tea or coffee in MUGS and toast/jam all in the price which is cheaper than in the UK.
Oh dear! am I a freak? I love my continenatal breakfast, I love all the Greek food my only lapse was once having a rather scrummy liver and bacon dinner at Marina. I refuse to eat English, I always remember someone in a resturant asking for plenty of gravy! and a waiter asking what toad in the hole was, HONEST! We hardly ever have chips and just love to eat med style (that is because i am useless at brit cooking, I cannot cook a sunday roast beef to save my life! ) Well anyway we all eat to enjoy so ENJOY!!
We would never eat anything other than Greek at night... cant even eat Pizza. We did try chinese last year which was a disaster, never again! We only have full english once or twice in the fortnight but other times its rolls and jam and yoghurt and fruit, quite healthy really. I would feel really bad if I had to ask for toad in the hole... that is just too much!
We always refer to breakfast to our healthy meal of the day, after that it is down hill all the way!!! Toad in the hole is another no no for me even here it is yorkshire batter say no more! signing off got the eldest grandsons here for night seem to have taken up wrestling, squealing as I write!! Ha. Ha.
Bread fresh from the bakery, and boiled eggs for breakfast!! Can't beat it.(OH! and sunshine!!).....
Breakie-Full English At Billys
Lunch-Club Sandwhich Or Salad
Dinner-Anything Like to try the traditional dishes but thats more Mum's thing.
Mums fave fizzy drink is defoo iron bru as they dont sell it very much in england so she stocks up put in greece, Dad sticks to his methos and i just have fruitshoots hehe or ribenaa or i cant remember what its called but they sell this really nice energy drink a bit like powerade but the greek version.
Each to our own! For energy I take out dettrox tablets, but can not wait for the very first meal I have not cooked, always the best!!!
We've got loads of irn-bru here!!!!!!!!!
(don't really like the stuff personally)
At Bardis Sun hotel breakfast was included. One day egg on toast next day beans on toast and then bacon egg and beans.
Dorita wa very obliging and would do me egg on toast as i dont like bacon.
Orange juice, tea or coffee and a basket of toast everyday. We found this just enough rather than a full blown english.
Evenings - definately like to try all the traditional greek dishes. Pizza and chinese, you can have them any time, but Stifado, Sofrito etc - they are not the same at home. So they are a must for me!
You must try Poppy's eggs, just right fully cooked but with runny yoke, you can tell they are fresh just by looking at them. Viv
Quote from: eve on May 19, 2007, 06:42:22 PM
I always remember someone in a resturant asking for plenty of gravy! and a waiter asking what toad in the hole was, HONEST!
I always remember when I was little, my parent's Greek friends driving over from Corfu to England to stay with us. We were trying to get Costas to eat some English food but he refused to have gravey. They just don't seem to have it in Greece. I remember him saying "Why must you cover all your food in thie English brown sauce?"
:lol:
We stayed with Poppy only for 1 night last year as we were staying in Acharavi but needed a little Arillas fix. Was gutted we couldn't have Poppy's breakfast as it was chucking it down and there was a power cut!
Brett had one of Poppy's full English breakfasts, i must admit the eggs did look lovely, soft yolk, just how i like them, i had a roll with sausage and cheese and onion in it, Bobby was laughing and made me write it down on the pad so Poppy could get it right cos of the episode id had at The Sea Breeze, then it came out and Poppy poked her head round the corner and asked if she'd done it right, i gave the thumbs up and she she cried 'oh thank goodness for that'!! We all laughed, such a giggle there!
Hi Smiffy
I can remember your destinctive laugh ;) also Poppy has got quite a chuckle aswell - i bet you had a scream catching up with them all - i know we did last year!
Can you remember when we were there in 2005 they went out and bought a job lot WKD blues for me. I drank them big time. When we went there last year Bobby got me one as soon as we turned up - Yuk i didnt have the heart to tell him i cant stand them now!!
Shuey
Haha it is an unforgettable one so im told!! Poppy has a good laugh too yes, we were always laughing!
Yes i remember Bobby telling me he'd gone and bought them, oh no not good when you've gone of them!
In the bar Bobby has a bottle of Vodka called Vodka North by Smirnoff, its got Nordic berries in it and is a light blue colour, Bobby poured me one with sprite as the mixer, oh my goodness it is gorgeous!! It tasted like the little blue ice pops you get, well i got everyone on it and we finished the bottle, Peter was drinking it neat, he loved it, anyway Bobby had to go out and get another bottle!! So anyone who likes a drop of the old voddie, nip in to The Bardis and say can i have a Smiffy vodka and Sprite!!
Mmmn that sounds yum. I will definately try that when we visit them this week.
I must remember that as well... I like Ursus too but I think thats red.
Pink Panther for me a lovely drink with OOOOOOOOuzo. Viv
Aah Nordic Vodka, very nice.... if you stay long enough at the Coconut of an evening this is often given out, yum yum! (or should I say slurp slurp)
whats a pink panther?
lives in d,rum d,rum d,rum d,rum d,rum with some french policman
is this a cluso!!?
Very good!
Pink Panther is one of Bobby's many cocktails he makes, my favourite cocktail is The Orgasm, oh my its delicious!! (the cocktail ladies, now now!)
Is that the same as the Rainbow's Screaming Orgasm on the Beach?????
Wished I hadnt asked now! ;)
Probably, Bobby's screaming orgasm cocktail has got Amaretto and Baileys in it amongst other things, its so lovely, it was also Tracey's fave cocktail too!