We woke up to some clouds and a not so good forecast but it was better than expected. We took the bus to the north coast of Paros to Naoussa, a two Euro fare. We were in Paros ten years ago when we cut short our trip to Budapest for reasons in the blog explained back then. We had rented a car and one of our stops was Naoussa. I had to read my blog to jog my failing memory. The alley ways of Naoussa were filled with shop after shop of mostly high end merch, not our thing. After wandering around and taking some pictures, we caught the bus back to Parikia, the port town.
We stopped at Hellas for two takeaway pork gyros and then picked up some pork and veggies for the meal we were planning for dinner. It was nice to be back where we moved our table and chairs back out to our patio to enjoy our alfresco lunch with some white wine.
After I had a short snooze, we had a scrabble rematch. Jill cleaned my clock again with one of the highest one word scores to date, 63. I started to prepare dinner. The freezer in our fridge was not closed completely due to a zip lock bag. It froze our cucumber and onion. Jill humped it to the market while I started preparing. The best knife was a serrated bread knife. Good thing we had a wooden cutting board. Whenever we don’t have all that we are used to, I say, “it’s better than camping”. We make the best of what we have. In this case, it was a two burner plate and a mishmash of utensils.
We had garlic, a chicken cube, white wine, an onion, cubanelle pepper and boneless pork. I prepared a tomato, and cucumber oil and vinegar salad. While I was cooking down the onions, garlic, and peppers, Jill said we still have one pepperette, so I sliced it up and in it went. Then she said we still have some salami so in it went too, along with the previously browned pork. More white wine then rice, with a big dollop of hot mustard and the rest of our olives. Jill doesn’t like figs so she didn’t share my stewed figs in Metaxa. A treat for me with a coffee.
Tomorrow is go day. Our host is getting us to the airport for the flight to Athens where we will spend a night at the Avra Hotel before our flight home. It’s been a wonderful holiday. Thanks to my sweetheart for all of her hard work planning, booking, getting deals, arranging tickets for flights and ferries. The logistics were not for the faint of heart.
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