Work update...
Korres' offices are located in Inofyta Greece - about 40 minutes north of Athens. To get to work we have to take a corporate bus from the center of Greece. Traffic in Athens is horrendous and I mean horrendous. Think of the worse traffic jam you've ever been in and times it by 10 and that's off peak traffic in Athens. As a result of this gridlock the bus leaves super early to avoid the rush so this requires us to get up in the wee hours of the morning - like we're out the door by 6:30 am. I don't think I've been up this early since the early 90's.
The offices are located in the an industrial office park with NOTHING around it but other businesses. To make up for the poor location and lack of food options, the company offers free sandwiches for lunch. Don't get too excited yet! I don't have the actual stats on this but I have a hunch that Greeks consume more mayo per capita than any other country in the entire world. No lie. Therefore these sandwiches come with lots of the gooey white stuff slathered all over it. After about 3 days of eating these sandwiches I called it quits. Christina on the other hand set the record for most mayo sandwiches eaten in one day - 2 1/2. She would not only eat these sandwiches for lunch, but she would also take one home with her and eat as a snack. She never ceases to amaze me...
This stuff is tops in this country
Also the first day of work we had to fill out some paper work which requested our address. Christina gave them the address of 16 Skata Street. Having only live at Kathy's for a couple days I had no idea what our address was so it looked right. About an hour after filling out the paper work they asked us to double check the street name. After further review we discovered our street was actually named Skyra Street and not Skata Street. Apparently, Skata means s-h-i-t in Greek so she knew that information couldn't be correct. Now you all know the first swear word I learned in Greek.
It's Wednesday night and we're trying to keep the excellent dining experience alive so we go back to Omonia and try a restaurant named Taverna Rozalia, where we finally had the true mezes experience that all the travel books talk about! After we were seated we started to browse through the menus, but were quickly interrupted by a man carrying a big tray full of different appetizers. We decided to cast the menus aside and play his game so we selected several dishes off the tray including stuffed tomatoes, potato salad and a traditional Greek dish called kokkinisto - a mixture of lamb, tomatoes, wine and herbs cooked is a small clay pot.
All the food was excellent and I highly recommend this restaurant for those who travel to Athens.
We have a couple more drinks after dinner and then head home. I need to be at the apt at 12:30 am because Kev gets back from Santorini tonight.
Hours til I find out that the camera no longer works - 2
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