Thursday, January 27, 2011
Food Exposé
Here we are making our way towards Athens, via a less inhabited island.
So what do we eat? Lets just say whatever we want. Gens a vegetarian so her meals lack the meat Emma's, Georgia's, and mine do. Since we have been on our island with a kitchen we have been able to cook extravagant foods, like fijitas and ratatouille (see more below). When biking it is give or take. We consume a large amount of yogurt and gronala for breakfast. For lunches sandwiches and wraps were common in Italy where bread, cheese, meat (salami and prosuto) and a varriety of toppings, pesto, capers (for lox), roasted peppers, balsamic vinegar, were all available in one stop shopping. Often leftovers for lunch were eaten for dinner. When camping since it was often cold we ate soup. However we are very capable camp cooks and have big plans for when the weather warms and spending time not in your tent it fun. We eat also a lot of chocolate or sweats, and things with salt like chips. Don't worry moms we also eat our vegetables and fruits, apples, orange, carrots and cucumbers. We drink mostly water but the occasional soda is enjoyed at lunch for refreshing energy boost.
Once we got to Greece we discovered that in smaller towns goods are split into specialty stores and the on the go sandwich was harder to prepare. We did discover however the delights of the Greek bakeries. Pastries both sweet and savory, filled with cheese, cheese and meat, or spinach. The perfect replacement for the Italian sandwich. When staying in hotels we make sure to fill up on continental breakfasts eating until we don't actually want to ride our bikes and perhaps not even eat lunch that day. For dinners we often find a grocery store or small kebab shop. We went out a couple times in Italy eating first course (pasta) and being forced to order second (meat), Gen would augment with cheese pizza. We have yet to have a full Greek experience, however after our radio debut tonight we plan on feasting on soulvaki. I'll let you all know how it goes.
Guacamole and Guarana
Fish
Wild Mountain Rabbit
Meat on a Stick
Sausage Sandwich
Thursday, January 20, 2011
A Quick Update
We sit here now at a lovely establishment in town on our little island. We have had many exciting adventures, and more to come I am sure This island is now on the "off season" and very little is happening, so we are an excitement, or so we think. The adventures started when we disembarked the ferry at 4am sleepy and ready to ride the 6km to our town on unknown roads. We met our host and pushed our loaded bikes up, up and up. Exhausted, hot and hungry we fell asleep. We have mostly been reading our twenty two books plus some on our roof top soaking up the rays. We have met many people, including one man who has brought us fresh eggs and goat cheese, Every night. Emma, Gen and I took a nice hike to the highest point on the island (perhaps pictures to come). We have been enjoying cooking in a kitchen and the lovely sunsets. The picture is of the sunset from our second story porch. Our island is one of those picturesque Greek islands with mountainous slopes and whitewash houses with blue trim. We enjoy our three stories with boat staircases, which prove tricky when groggy in the morning when one is seeking tea or coffee.
Next Thursday at 6pm (Greek time 11am New York time) we have been invited to be on a radio podcast type thing. Check it out if you are up or you can find it later.
Here's the link www.radiomamouni110m6.com
For those of you who don't know we are hanging out on this island to avoid cold weather, it was freezing when we left Italy, it has been in the 60s here. Also most of the campgrounds are seasonal and we find it expensive staying hotels so we are waiting for them to open. It has been a nice break, personally I have been on the move since early May, having finished my college work a couple days ago it is finally nice to read for pleasure. Everyone else is enjoying the relaxation as well. We are looking for things to do. We are working on a short film, a suspense flick about the robbery of a small Greek island bank (there are only three cops on this island). We will, however, enjoy our return to life on the go.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
A quick view of our island
Day off in Athens
Friday, January 14, 2011
Off We Go
We are off to our island, we wouldn't say what it is called, perhaps you will figure it out. Hopefully there will internet around so we can tell you how our books are(we now have 22 books to read).
thats all
ride on
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Fun with Number
0-cell phones (who needs these things anyways?)
1-bottle of hot sauce running low (tropical pepper co. xxxtra hot habanero pepper sauce, bought at catinas market shouthampton ny)
2-lesbians. . .
3-bike locks (herricks hardware $12.99, with family discount)
4-traffic cycle design custom touring bicycles (first addition, big ups Spencer Wright http://trafficbikes.com/)
5-useless American one dollar bills
6-saint charms (four saint Christopher's, one saint Anthony and one saint Lucy, who knew we were so religious, perhaps superstitious)
7-unsent post cards (sorry Lianna and household, you'll be getting them soon)
8-heavy duty crocs (buy one get one free, thanks tanger)
9-mini Cubans (one big mistake or mini on Georgia's birthday)
10- stolen packs of complementary shampoo (thanks vasto)
11-lip balms (four Hilary's homemade, thanks mom, two Carmex, two medicated bilstex, one fat tire brand, one chapstick, and one burts bees)
12-bandanas (style to snot there are so many reasons to have bandanas)
13-bungee cords (holding stuff down)
14-liters of water we can carry at one time (platypus bladders, dromitorys and klean kanteens)
15-books (library on wheels)
Sunday, January 9, 2011
If you all haven't noticed I have figured out how to update from my iPod touch. Technology is amazing. I am able to take pictures throughout the day and send them off at night, if we have wifi, which seems pretty common every where. With my iPod in had I am trying to capture as much as I can, however I am curious about what you all are interested in seeing, more scenery, our bikes, us, the food we eat. Let me know! And remember we
Love getting comments.
Thanks
Ride on!
Lucy.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Kebab eating technique.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Brrr. It is cold out there
Gen and Georgia took great care of us while also going slightly stir crazy stuck up in hotel rooms.
We "celebrated" new years pretty mellowly in our hotel room counting down with the TV, warmly snuggled in bed while dynamite sounding fireworks exploded outside. Since new years fell on a Sat there was an extra long period of closed shops and empty Italian villages, this did not help the stir crazy healthy or the recovering sickies. No food and no medicine. Luckily taking it slow paid off and Emma and I have recovered well and are able to ride at full strength now.
Today was an extremely beautiful day. We cut inland leaving the coast. What a good idea. We enjoyed open spaces of green agricultural fields strewn with old crumbling stone buildings. The occasional quarry lead to an increase in large trucks whizzing past us on the narrow roads. At lunch as we sat frozen on the side of the raod numb toes and tingling fingers we felt our first rain drops. Luckily it held off until we were able to reach our campsite. We are now all nestled in our tents reading in the warmth. P.S. There are a lot of cats at this campsite.