April 05, 2003
Ouzo: Pre-season training for Greece
It's Friday night and I'm over at the house of my dear friends Sam and Taylor. Between stories and general BS'ing we've also been comparing Europe trips - my pending one, and the one Taylor went on a couple of years back. And drinking ouzo.
Ouzo is a lovely concoction from Greece, and to my mind is proof that this truly was a civilized culture. Or maybe it's just because I was the only kid in my childhood life who liked the black licorice jelly beans, and that's just never left me.
In any case, I consider it good training for once I hit Athens. And now it's time to stop blogging, and tend to my shot. Oopa! ("Cheers!" in Greek. I think the spelling's right, anyway).
Posted by Ant at 05:33 AM
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Comment by Chris on April 6, 2003 05:35 AM
I was in Greece with my P's when I was 8 years old. We had a VW camper and had parked for the night by a farmhouse. The residents came out and asked us in for dinner (goat's milk tasted foul to my young toungue). Afterwards, the man of the house took my dad and I down to the local taverna for some ouzo. We must have been down there for a few hours and the conversation never stopped, even though my dad and this bloke shared no more than a handful of each other's languages. Pretty cool, and I still remember that first taste of ouzo, over 20 years later.
Comment by CANADIAN PHARMACY on December 2, 2003 08:03 AM
nice!