It’s been two full weeks here in Athens. Walking down the street to grab lunch and seeing the Acropolis looming in the background somehow has yet to get old.
We decided late last night that we wanted tacos for lunch today, so we got moving (before noon!) and sat for lunch at Ancho. We got a special show by a roving band of musicians as they wandered through the ped-mall playing in front of the various tavernas. Must have been a dozen guys, various brass instruments and drums. There was a guy playing a tuba!
Then we picked up and headed to the other side of the neighborhood to get coffee and dessert at a place called Bless Me Father. (It’s the secret coffee shop that we ditched last weekend!) Coffee and brunch during the day, bumpin’ and cocktails at night. We’re too old to bump so we got coffee (a latte for H and a cold brew for me) and some profiteroles. It’s nice to have something sweet with the coffee.
I finally cooked for dinner. (We’ve made spaghetti and bolognese sauce a few times but that barely counts as cooking.) We brought American curry powder and chili powder with us this time, figuring that those featured pretty predominantly in the foods we like to make, but it’s easy and cheap to get “fast food,” so we really hadn’t put the effort into really cooking. But I had bought the stuff to make curry some time in the middle of the week and it was definitely the last thing “missing” from our diet, as it really hit the spot.
Time for the weekend. Wonder where we’ll end up!