Today was another day battling jet lag. Ton and I were having a nice conversation at 2:30 in the morning, when we should have been sleeping. We both finally nodded off at about 3am, so the day did not get off to an early start.
Nea Makri campground is perfectly situated for Ton as there are three major grocery stores within 500 yards. Today we spent most of the afternoon visiting them.
One of the things we enjoyed about the Greeks last time was there comfort in trying to speak English or sign language to communicate with foreigners. Today in the My Market we took some vegetables up to be weighed. Vegetable sales are done quite differently in Europe depending on the country. In Greece you weigh them in the vegetable department and the scale prints out a bar code with the price. At the My Market they have a person there to weigh the vegetables for you and stick the price tags on. As we were getting our stuff weighed she tried to up sell us some strawberries and her English was basic and fun. Ton went back to get some oranges and she came back and asked the lady if they were sweet. She did not understand sweet, but really wanted to know what Ton was asking, so I googled sweet for her in Greek. She said no! and took Ton back to the oranges to get different ones. As we were standing there along with several Greek customers waiting to get there vegetables weighed while Ton picked the oranges, she looked at me and pointed to herself and said “I sweet”, and then pointed at me and said “You sweet”. Everyone around had a good laugh.
The campground has been pretty empty until today. We now have a three generation Israeli family next door, and I spent some time playing ping pong with a 10 year old Polish boy who spoke English really well. It is impressive how fluent the younger generations of Europeans are in English, and also very helpful for old Americans who don’t have any other languages.
The last thing was last November when we were here there were two cute white kittens who adopted us, because we were a good food source. We were happy to see that they are now fierce looking white cats and seem to be doing well.
Wondering if you came across Zorba the Greek there yet. He’s a big fellow, loud and boisterous! He looks a little like Anthony Quinn so if you see him, say hi for me!!
Hi Paul not here,Ton and I happened to be talking about Zorba the Greek a couple of days ago at lunch. It was filmed on the island of Crete which is our destination next week. We’ll let you know how it looks and we promise to keep an eye out for Zorba, though rumor has it he is really a Mexican-American masquerading as a Greek.