yes. no?

Everything is backwards here. Oh, and here would be Greece...

Yes sounds like no. No sounds like yes. A green light doesn't mean it's safe to cross the street, you have to wave down trolleys and cabs only stop if you look like you don't need one.

And I was under the impression that I'd be pretty plump by now but the opposite has happened. Really.

For dinner yesterday we had a tableful of lamb pork chops, fries, beets, fava beans, Greek salad, saganaki, spanakopita, spinach, fried zucchini and dessert. And wine. Lots and lots of wine.

And tonight we had half a loaf of bread, fried zucchini, saganaki, some wine and Greek salad followed by lamb with potatoes.




The waiter kept stopping by to chat and, I'm sure, pontificate with his colleagues about where we were putting all the food. Witnessing two petite ladies ordering and eating a family's worth of food must be quite the curiosity to these men.

There was even a stray cat who sat by our table the entire evening waiting like an obedient dog for some scraps to be thrown its way. Even the animal world can't believe we'd have such bottomless pits.

So there you have it.

We eat. We drink. We are merry. And all the while, the pants aren't getting any tighter.

Life is awful, isn't it...

we don't need another

gyro

Actually, that's a lie. I love these. Just had a nicely toasted pork gyro with fries and a side of sauce. Don't know what kind of sauce but it was very tasty. Very.

Or maybe everything just seems better when you're travelling.

If that "special sauce" had found its way to my table at a restaurant back home, I might have found it suspect. Put it in a little ceramic bowl on a table in Greece and suddenly it's very continental.

Also very continental, my friend tells me, is how likely we are to gain some good poundage while we're here. But I'm okay with that. The amount of weight I lost from getting sick and being so stressed over the past month should be addressed, anyway. I say, this is the way to do it -- abroad!

So bring on the European food challenge. I have yet to meet a gyro, souvlaki, calamari, cheese pie or seafood I don't like.