Coke Light

7/11/08

So due to European Union restrictions, they are not allowed to call Diet Coke, "Diet Coke", because it is not technically a diet product to be used as part of a regimen. Therefore I had a "Coke Light" with my lunch, which consisted of a spanokipita (flaky pastry filled with spinach and cheese), a small pastry with ham and cheese in the middle and then finished with some of the cherries we bought at the fruit and vegetable market in Omonia. We spent our morning going to the meat, fruit and vegetable markets and perusing the stalls.

Omonia is very non-touristy and in a few of our transactions we had to rely on international hand symbols rather than our English. The meat market consisted of many, many stalls of different cuts of beef, chicken, pork, and probably lamb, veal, and other delicacies. I took some great video of a man cleaving up some meat for a customer. As I chose to wear my cute sundress today, one of the meat market men called out, "Too much beauty," as I walked past. It was then that it occurred to Bobby that bringing me to a meat market full of male butchers (aka a sausagefest as Bobby termed it - get the pun?) was a bad idea. We also bought some cherries, as previously mentioned, but we unsure of how to communicate that we wanted a half kilo. So instead we bought the full kilo (2.2 pounds for you on the non-metric system) and immediately regretted the decision after we saw the fruit man use his hands to measure the quantity.

**As of posting, we still have cherries left despite Bobby pawning them off to anyone willing in the hotel.

As Bobby and I try to write our entries in our journals in the hotel garden at our hotel we have been terrorized by one of the hotel kittens. It has decided to jump between Boby and the table and me, purring like a vespa and rubbing itself all over us. It's totally cute, but also making writing very difficult. Since I am quite allergic I am off to wash my hands and body of all cat-ness and apply benadryl before we hit the pavement again.