Poo in a toilet

Greek is surprisingly intuitive. Take the title for example. One of the most useful phrases in any language, is "Where is the bathroom". Well, in Greek, it is pu ine toillette, which is pronounced "poo in a toilet". How intuitive!

On the same digestive tract that we're on, I'd like to highlight some of great foods we had. I know that many of you are probably drooling just waiting to hear about them. In particular, Karin has been especially demanding to hear of all the tasty foods we've been eating, so I will spend a great deal of time on these tasty treats!

If you recall the photo of Sketchy McSketcherson (see our flickr page, and keep clicking NEXT at the bottom of the page until you see his photo), we had an excellent meal there.

1. Greek salad with exceptional feta (they put a chunk of it on top of the salad).
2. Mussel saganaki, with another tasty cheese (sorry don't know the name of it).
3. Taramosalata (fish egg puree, kind of like humous).
4. Dolmades, served warm, with a hint of ouzo or fennel.
5. Octopus in olive oil and vinegar (Amber loved them, the first time she's liked octopus).
6. Tasty fresh bread to sop up all the sauces of the aforementioned treats.
7. ALFA beer (another Greek beer). Lager, better that Bud (obviously), but not as great as homebrew.

However, the best foods in Naxos (not in Athens) were agreed upon by all:

• Greek salad with young feta (a spreadable chevre-like cheese).
• Greek/Arugula salad, with local Ximo...something cheese. It had a light dressing.
• Rooster in tomato sauce (Dan & Eric's first bite of cock, pardon me). It was flavourful like only stewing hens could be. Much better that crappy chicken you buy in the supermarket.
• Augergine with cheese (again, that local Ximo...something cheese), very tasty. Eggplants are something of a specialty here, or at least it happened to be eggplant season.
• Gyros from "Moustache's: Fresh is Better" (Dan's particular fav despite having fries snuck in them). Most touristy places have french fries, some sort of unfortunate British influence.
• Aforementioned octopus from Sketchy's.
• Aforementioned dolmades from Sketchy's. His actual restaurant was called "Cafe Ouzeri Limaiaki" (my rough transcription from Greek to Roman alphabet).

And of course, there was a ranking of all of our favorite Ouzos. In usual scientific styling (not to be confused with the European Styling that usually involves some sort of ridiculous yellow sunglasses, perhaps with perfectly round lenses, and incomprehensible Engrish on the back of jeans that might say "Nobody's perfect except the Captain"), we decided to rank them on a scale from 7-11.

• Ouzo Pliomariou - 10/10.5/10 Better aroma, a little bit of an alcoholy taste.
• Ouzo Tsantali - 10/10/10 Excllent overall.
• Ouzo Naxiotiko - 8/8/7 Worse smell, worse taste, not as sweet, more bite.
• Ouzo D'Artemis - 8.5/9/9 Nice aftertaste, but that was about it.
• Ouzo Mini (worse than Pliomariou, not ranked because we had already drank it all by the time we got the ingenious idea to rank them)

Anyways, from the classy pu ine toillette in Greece, we will have dov'e [in a] toillette in Sicily (that's Greek for the same).

Dan.