neurotic Iraqi wife
April 22, 2008
Authentic Food with Crazy Plate Breaking
We just got back from Cape Sounion. Had I known it would take us about 2 hours just to reach there, I wouldnt have opted for this tour. Yes it was nice, yes its amazing, BUT...But I kinda am not impressed by the ruins as much as I was impressed by the Acropolis. I mean THAT is really something to see...
I also blame my uninterest in the few columns here and there to our trip last year to Italy. Now thats one place I cannot compare history to. Maybe we should have come to Greece first then see Italy, I dunno. Tomorrow is a big day, we are going to visit one of the islands, and Im kinda excited. Athens is nice. Athens is nice and is full of shoe shops, woooooooohooooo...The street right next to our hotel is shoes galore. I just love it.
We have been taking things easy which is exactly what I want and need. We sit at cafes and PW (People watch). I mean just doing something as simple as that is a blessing. Drinking yummy lattes and enjoying the beatiful weather with HUBBY is by itself WOW. I cant believe that 4 days ago I was stuck in an airport in Baghdad...Infact I dont wanna even think about it.
Our day tour yesterday was quite fun. The visit to the Acropolis was amazing, but nobody warns you that you will be using alot of your calf muscles on the way!!! Yup...After being stuck in an office sitting on my ass for the past three and a half months, I cant really say my muscles were happy bunnies...I woke up today suffering, but hey I aint complaining. We have also been doing alot of walking in Plaka and Psiri. Plaka is very touristy though, full of cafes and restaurants. As we walk around we get mobbed by the waiters "Sir, sir, we are the best in town. Sir, Sir we offer the best authentic greek food at reasonable prices". Yup turns out all of them are the "best" in town and all of the offer 'authentic" food. :)
We saw a gyro shop, and since gyro is exactly like the shawirma HUBBY loves, we sat there. Apparantely the Greeks pronounce it "geeros". Something I always wanted to find out about. I was so excited to have some but then got disappointed as it was a choice of either pork or chicken. Neither of which we eat, so instead we settled for some lamb kababs...Cant say it was tasty, infact, it was tasteless. Everything we ate needed loads of salt which kinda shocked me. Ive had Greek food in the States, and I remember it as being extremely yummy...Oh well, again I aint complaining.
I do feel abit guilty for some odd reason with all thats happening back in Baghdad. I need to completely switch off. There arent many channels on TV that we can understand except for CNN, euronews and Jazeera. So all we do if we are in the room is watch news, NOT GOOD. Today as I was lying next to HUBBY, which I have to say is just bliss, watching CNN with Obama and Hilary, I asked him who he would vote for. McCain, he said. I couldnt believe it. I jolted up and said, say again? McCain???How could you HUBBY. The guy is an idiot. He is the best out of these three HUBBY said.
I dont agree at all. HUBBY then asked who would I vote for if I had the chance, None was my answer. Obama and Hilary wanna get the troops out and dont wanna have anything to do with Iraq. McCain is a crook. He is just dillusional. So for me none of these are good enough. Ughhh, I still cant believe he said McCain...
Oh forgot to mention something. Yesterday on the tour bus, an older couple started talking to us. They were from the States. They asked us where we were from. I dunno why HUBBY at first said Florida. Then as the conversation deepened, he told them we are originally Iraqis. All of a sudden the conversation came to a halt. That just cracked me up. I told HUBBY now we know if we aint in the mood to socialize we will just say Baghdad and that will shut people up, I like that. Besides, I scream Iraq. I mean Im wearing my Iraq map necklace, Im wearing my 2 Iraq bracelates, people should figure it out by themsleves dont you think?
Apart from that, after almost four months of being a single neurotic wife, I almsot forgot what it feels like to be married again. So when we both need to pee, we both scram to the bathroom. Me first I say, no me first he says. And we push each other to see who gets to sit on the reign first. Too funny. Or at bed time. Im used to being alone. HUBBY loves to hug me, so he rolls over to my side, leaving all the half of his side of the bed empty and sticks himself to me. I end up right at the edge ready to fall anytime,lol. Then I remember, Hey Im married. Again things like these make me smile. Its an odd feeling having to switch off then on again. But I Love it. I love being pampered and showered by kisses out of the blue.
Well I better go now, its time for dinner and Im famished. Not sure whats on the menu for tonight, but I really really do feel like having something authentic. I mean REALLY authentic. Authentic food with crazy plate breaking. I love breaking plates. Its very therapeutic. Havent seen restaurants that offer that kinda thing... I wanna break some plates!!! I want Authentic Food with Crazy Plate Breaking...
I also blame my uninterest in the few columns here and there to our trip last year to Italy. Now thats one place I cannot compare history to. Maybe we should have come to Greece first then see Italy, I dunno. Tomorrow is a big day, we are going to visit one of the islands, and Im kinda excited. Athens is nice. Athens is nice and is full of shoe shops, woooooooohooooo...The street right next to our hotel is shoes galore. I just love it.
We have been taking things easy which is exactly what I want and need. We sit at cafes and PW (People watch). I mean just doing something as simple as that is a blessing. Drinking yummy lattes and enjoying the beatiful weather with HUBBY is by itself WOW. I cant believe that 4 days ago I was stuck in an airport in Baghdad...Infact I dont wanna even think about it.
Our day tour yesterday was quite fun. The visit to the Acropolis was amazing, but nobody warns you that you will be using alot of your calf muscles on the way!!! Yup...After being stuck in an office sitting on my ass for the past three and a half months, I cant really say my muscles were happy bunnies...I woke up today suffering, but hey I aint complaining. We have also been doing alot of walking in Plaka and Psiri. Plaka is very touristy though, full of cafes and restaurants. As we walk around we get mobbed by the waiters "Sir, sir, we are the best in town. Sir, Sir we offer the best authentic greek food at reasonable prices". Yup turns out all of them are the "best" in town and all of the offer 'authentic" food. :)
We saw a gyro shop, and since gyro is exactly like the shawirma HUBBY loves, we sat there. Apparantely the Greeks pronounce it "geeros". Something I always wanted to find out about. I was so excited to have some but then got disappointed as it was a choice of either pork or chicken. Neither of which we eat, so instead we settled for some lamb kababs...Cant say it was tasty, infact, it was tasteless. Everything we ate needed loads of salt which kinda shocked me. Ive had Greek food in the States, and I remember it as being extremely yummy...Oh well, again I aint complaining.
I do feel abit guilty for some odd reason with all thats happening back in Baghdad. I need to completely switch off. There arent many channels on TV that we can understand except for CNN, euronews and Jazeera. So all we do if we are in the room is watch news, NOT GOOD. Today as I was lying next to HUBBY, which I have to say is just bliss, watching CNN with Obama and Hilary, I asked him who he would vote for. McCain, he said. I couldnt believe it. I jolted up and said, say again? McCain???How could you HUBBY. The guy is an idiot. He is the best out of these three HUBBY said.
I dont agree at all. HUBBY then asked who would I vote for if I had the chance, None was my answer. Obama and Hilary wanna get the troops out and dont wanna have anything to do with Iraq. McCain is a crook. He is just dillusional. So for me none of these are good enough. Ughhh, I still cant believe he said McCain...
Oh forgot to mention something. Yesterday on the tour bus, an older couple started talking to us. They were from the States. They asked us where we were from. I dunno why HUBBY at first said Florida. Then as the conversation deepened, he told them we are originally Iraqis. All of a sudden the conversation came to a halt. That just cracked me up. I told HUBBY now we know if we aint in the mood to socialize we will just say Baghdad and that will shut people up, I like that. Besides, I scream Iraq. I mean Im wearing my Iraq map necklace, Im wearing my 2 Iraq bracelates, people should figure it out by themsleves dont you think?
Apart from that, after almost four months of being a single neurotic wife, I almsot forgot what it feels like to be married again. So when we both need to pee, we both scram to the bathroom. Me first I say, no me first he says. And we push each other to see who gets to sit on the reign first. Too funny. Or at bed time. Im used to being alone. HUBBY loves to hug me, so he rolls over to my side, leaving all the half of his side of the bed empty and sticks himself to me. I end up right at the edge ready to fall anytime,lol. Then I remember, Hey Im married. Again things like these make me smile. Its an odd feeling having to switch off then on again. But I Love it. I love being pampered and showered by kisses out of the blue.
Well I better go now, its time for dinner and Im famished. Not sure whats on the menu for tonight, but I really really do feel like having something authentic. I mean REALLY authentic. Authentic food with crazy plate breaking. I love breaking plates. Its very therapeutic. Havent seen restaurants that offer that kinda thing... I wanna break some plates!!! I want Authentic Food with Crazy Plate Breaking...
7 Comments:
"Besides, I scream Iraq. I mean Im wearing my IRAQ MAP necklace, Im wearing my 2 IRAQ bracelates, people SHOUL FIGURE it out by themsleves dont you think?"
I found that very funny sis. I think you haven't really met any real Americans yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp4iI59BfpQ&feature=related
Sam
ok NIW, how many shoes have you bought by now....?
Glad you and hubby are enjoying the time together, Hope your island trip is great too. Did you get to break any plates? There are days that would really help to break the tension !!
Your writing seems so full of life now you are away from the GZ. I hope you and Hubby have a great time.
HELLOLUVLY NEUROTICA :)ENJOY THE TIME IN THE OLD OLYMPIAD NATION OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT ;WHO LEFT THIS GLOBE HAVING ACHIEVED A HUGE MILITARY ACCOMPLISHMENT BACKED BY THE OLD ANCIENT GODESS´S BLESSINGS & THUS DEPARTED THIS EARTH STILL YOUNG IN OLD BABYLON ;HAVING THRASHED OLD IRAN ;BUT GOOD;WE NEED ANOTHER ALEXANDER BUT ONE WHO SHALL ENDURE & GROW OLD WITH BUILDING & FORGING A NEW IRAQ." WHAT SAY YOU??! NEUROTICA SHALL YOU BE THE ALEXANDRA OF TODAY´S AGE & BEAT THE BLOODY AXIS OF EVILIRAN INTO THE GROUND,DELIVER AN ALMIGHTY BLOW THAT THEY SHALL NEVER RECOVER FROM; THEREBY IT IS QUITE APPROPRIATE THAT YOU SHOULD BE IN THE LAND OF ONE OF THE GREATEST GENERALS OF ANCIENT TIMES:) WHO KNOWS HE MAY BE LOOKING DOWN UPON US & SENDS BLESSNGS TO YOU NEUROTICA & YOUR HUBBY; TO TAKE OVER ALONGSIDE MANY IN IRAQ & COMPLETE THE JOB HE STARTED A LONG LONG LONG TIME AGO MAY THE FORCE OF THE GODS BE WITH YOU & GODESS HELENA SMILE UPON YOU AS YOU BREAK ALL THE PLATES & VENT THE ANXIETY OUT AS YOU ABSORB GREEK CIVILISATION :) ITALY & THE ITALIAN "ROMAN EMPIRE" POST GREEK HAS MARVELOUS TREASURES TO BEHOLD AS THEY BUILT ON THE FOUNDATION OF THE GREEK CIVILISATION THUS ONE CAN´T HELP BUT BE IMPRESSED IN ALL THINGS ITALIEN ;?ALMOST ALL THINGS!!THINGS PERTAINING TO CULTURE ;& HISTORIC TREASURES:)AFTER ALL WE HAD ROMAN BRITAIN FROM AD TO WELL INTO BC & COLCHESTER HAD BEEN ONE OF THE EARLIEST FORTIFIED ROMAN FORT SETTLEMENTS HHHMMMM"CHECK OUT BBC HISTORY ANCIENT BRITAIN & UP TO DATE INCLUDING BRITAIN EARLY 20th & LATE 18th CENTURY & IRAQ ;SO BACK TO GREEK CULTURE ;ALEXANDER THE GREAT DEPARTING THIS GLOBE IN OLD BABYLON & THE IRAQ THAT MAY BE BUILT IN AN EXCITING VIBRANT & PROSPEROUS LIVELY WAY AS PART OF THE G.C.C..
OH AND AS FOR THESE COUPLE OF IGNORANT PREJUDISE ILLRIDDEN LOT IN THE BUS TOUR TRIP I AM AFRAID ;??THERE ARE SO MANY ILEDUCATED PEOPLE WHO PREFER ABIDING BY AN EASY SIMPLIFIED BLINCKERED ;INTOLERANT & SELF-SATISFYING EXPLANATION ADORNED WITH PREJUDICE THAT SERVES THEIR OWN ENDS!!! TO PROVE THEY ARE BETTER THAN THOU??!! THAT A PRETEXT OF YOUR NAME ;OR ANY OTHER SUPERFICIAL ADJECTIVE SHALL SAFFICE FOR THEM TO RETRACT FROM YOU TAKE THEIR DISTANCE & NOT TO WANT TO KNOW YOU ??JUST THANK THE HEAVENS THAT YOU HAVEN´T TO DEPEND ON SUCH PEOPLE IN THE BUS FOR YOUR EMPLOYMENT BREAD & BUTTER & OR SOCIAL LIFE ??! ANY POOR SOD LANDING IN THE GODFORSAKEN SITUATION OF HAVING TO BEG FOR THEIR EMPLOYMENT -BREAD & BUTTER ;NO MATTER HOW QUALIFIED ; & OR THE SOCIAL LIFE´´!! SURROUNDED BY SUCH AN IGNORANT COUPLE LOT IN THE TOUR BUS THEN THEY´D BETTER SIMPLY SCARPER MATE ??AS THERE AIN´T NO CONVINCING OBSTINATE ;HATEFULL;SINNISTER TYPES OF PEOPLE ;AS INDEED IS THE CASE OF THE BLOODY AXIS OF EVIL PEOPLE "SORRY TO HARP ON THAT ;BUT YOU DON´T BELIEVE WHAT TAKES PLACE IN THE BIG BAD WORLD OF SNEAKY SINNISTER SNAKE LIKE SLIMEY GEYSERS THAT LURK IN THE MOST UNLIKELY NOOKS & CRANNIES UP TO NO GOOD ;& YES ??!!IT IS JUST A SIMILAR TYPE OF PEOPLE TO THE ONES YOU UNFORTUNATELY CAME ACCROSS IN THE BUS ALTHOUGH OTHERS MAY BE DRESSED & COLOURD IN DIIFFERENT GARMENTS ;SAD AS IT IS THAT IS THE REALITY OUT THERE FUUL OF ALL SORTS & MANY ARE VINDICTIVE SINNISTER TYPES:( AT ANY RATE ENOUGH OF THE THEORY BEHIND THE SINNISTER TYPES OF THIS GLOBE";BACK TO GREECE & PLATE BASHING :) ALL THE VERY BEST OF MERRY JOLLY HOLS TO YOU BOTH ENJOY IT & MAYBE YOU´LL FIND TASTIER "SHAWIRMA"GEEERROOS" SHAAAWURMA" & OR GUSSS IN BEIRUT??PLUS ALL THE OTHER "TABBOOUULA" ;HUMMUUSS; BABA G3ANOOOOJ" TARAMUSALATA";:))KINDEST REGARDS WWW.bfbs.com" AS ALWAYS YOUR OLAFF
Hello NIW,
I agree with whitehawk, your posts are optimistic far from the GZ...
Are you going to visit some islands that were mentioned in the Gospel?
NIW while you are there, try to listen to Greek music, it is close to Eastern music and especially Turkish..they do have belly dancers as well ;P
ENJOY EVERY SECOND NIW
Sam, yeah Ive seen this clip before.
Unfortunately Beams, we didnt find any place that has the breaking plates tradition. I bought 4 pairs so far, but I have my eye on a few more :)
Olaff, oh definitely HUBBY will be eating all the above...
Whitehawk and MM, do u really think so? I dunno, I guess Im in my unphased mood right now...Im trying to relax as much as I can...Trying to switch off just for the time being...
God bless.
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