Today, cooking school. Lovely morning at Dourakis winery. We helped to make the main entree, lamb in a wine/olive oil stock, then made our own salads, appetizer and cheese pie for dessert.
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| Michelle and Sheila cooked! Although they were distracted by matchmaking Kostas and Jenny (from the winery). |
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| Cheese pies |
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| The matchmaking |
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| The requested pose (subtle!) |
Dourakis Winery and Cook Like a Cretan cooking class.
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| Our chef instructor,, Jenny’s sister |
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| Eating what we cooked (well, more like assembled...) |
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| It’s official! |
Wait - another winery tour! This time we visited a winery and olive oil producer: Anoskeli Winery-Oil Mill. We learned that Extra Virgin Olive Oil is the first pressing of the season. Extra, Extra Virgin is marketing. No difference whether it’s in a can or bottle - it will keep for a really long time in a room temperature place away from heat and sun (like a pantry), ignore the expiration date. If it’s in plastic you should use it right away.
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| Wine and olive oil tasting |
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| 500 year old olive tree |
Then dinner at a nearby restaurant with a spectacular view:
Early to bed. Up at 5:30 am to fly back to Athens for our last day. We’ve had a great time with the Goddesses and meeting the other travelers. This tour is unique because only Kyle, the EF Tour employee is traveling solo. There are 3 groups total, it’s been fun meeting everyone.
True confession time: Cindy and I ran over to the shopping area for an hour before we had to catch the bus at 4:15. At 3:45 we started walking in what I assured Cindy was the right direction. All of the landmarks were making sense but when we got to the spot we thought would be the hotel...it was not. We saw the park, we saw the church, we had to be close. Then we saw Bob and Debbie from our group across the street. “Are you guys headed back to the hotel? We’re not sure where it is.” No kidding, Bob pointed at the building about 2 feet away and said, “we’re here.” He’s pretty impressed with our navigation skills. Lori is now calling me Magellan. (To be fair, I was right, I just didn’t know it.) Bob said I should have waited 2 more steps to ask.
Post tomorrow from our last day in Athens and our farewell dinner!
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