World According to Pete

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The Next Day in Athens

Sam was really wanting me to send out an update on the day, but I told her I really didn’t have enough fodder for an interesting story. The day has been a food disaster—thus far Greek food has been amazing but it all came crashing down today. “So what am I supposed to write about, a shit food day?!?” Apparently yes, so here’s my post:

Shit Food Day!!

However, this post will start the day before.

Furs for sale in Athens?!?
Typical Athens street scene. Bizarrely, they sell furs all over the place!
Seafood risotto with delicious white anchovies
Dinner last night—wow this seafood risotto was amazing! Notice my favorite white anchovies in the background 😀
Sam enjoying lunch!
Sam giving a big smile, oblivious to the fact that this is her last edible meal for maybe thirty hours or so 😀

And now it’s morning of the next day, and I decided to try “Greek coffee.” Very first mistake of the day! First kind of coffee I’d even encountered that I could not stand for more than two sips. Worst thing I’d ever attempted to drink. And they included two horrible sticky gummy-bear-type objects which somehow made the whole experience even more nasty.

Well. Anyway, it’s a new day, and we are taking the opportunity to hike around randomly.

Some horsey statue in Greece
More Athens graffiti
Graffiti still holding up
Marble-laid pavement in Athens
Streets are so pretty here!
Hah funny advertisement for an exterminator who apparently can take on Godzilla
If you need an exterminator, we have a powerful one!!
Bizarro pork cut in Athens grocery store
Went into a grocery store and saw this… I wanna say it’s a pork-chop still attached to what is normally the bacon area?? Maybe?? Another unsolved European meat mystery…
Our fav restaurant is down this street!
The Athens streets always look so inviting!
Random cathedral in Athens
Random cathedral
Sam about to boink her head on the low door sill :-D
Screenshot of a snap I sent lol
Some disgusting mess for lunch
Another Snap screenshot, I was going to just send the picture of the meal, but I found myself instead typing what Sam was saying trying to describe this… thing 😀
More fun graffiti!
But at least the graffiti is still spot on!
Beautiful classical residence streetside in Athens
Some random building which caught our eye
Pasta la Vista Baby! Arnold haha
Nice to see that Arnold is appreciated here!!
Sam enjoying a rare salad
I’ll admit the salad was good. Hey wait, I skipped over lunch!! Lunch was AWFUL!!! I had dead black pork skewers of death, Sam had dead dense diseased fish of death, it was so bad I deleted all the pics!

So yeah there are no pix of dinner. Trust me, you don’t want them! Yikes what a bad day for food.

What was this post supposed to be about again? 😀

Crowded street scene
Still tho, as always, the ambience is great
Barftastic dinner pizza of barf
Oh wait, I do have a pic of dinner. Looks pretty decent, right? WRONG
darkening skies on the way home
Bad pizza or not, the city is still amazingly beautiful


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