03/09/2026
Food & animals sprinklings from my recent trip to Greece. I love trying food from different cultures. It wasn’t the highlight for me this trip but I’ll share what was sampled… loads of daily figs off the tree! Fresh grapes from an (unsprayed) local garden, amazing warm dolmades, stuffed eggplants with feta, Horta (steamed local greens), fresh lemon drinks at sunset, a b**r from Ikaria with no preservatives, moussaka, fried local cheese, the most amazing Greek salad with local goats cheese from the island, basil infused water (gifted by a local after a hot climb!), orange cake made by the sweet old lady, the most incredible rose gelato, chickpea soup at a local festival, incredible calamari with toasted cos lettuce….have I forgotten anything? I feel like Greek food lends itself to big tables of humans & shared dishes. We did that on a couple of nights but often my digestion was switched off by 8:30pm when we went to eat so I savoured the day time hours. Always excited & intrigued by flavours.