As we came to Kos Marina the only thing in plain sight was restaurants, packed full of them, pizza, seafood, steak houses, and cafe's at every corner! Obviously the current market demanded them in numbers, because of the massive tourism in Greece. Which one to pick? This is when iPhones come in handy but because of the outrageous price for mega bits, there was no need to bring them. So after we had walked round in circles for about 15 minutes, we settled on... 'The Stadium'
The restaurant was a great success and was based on traditional Greek & Turkish food. I had fish and 'Stadiums special sauce' on skewers with stuffed peppers. Heavenly peppers, crunchy on the outside and the soft rice on the inside topped with melted cheese. The fish was red mullet and tasted very smoky and had a very chewy texture to it. The sauce was brilliant, I wanted the recipe so badly, but they kept on saying it's a 'SECRET.' But, my mum and brother had an unusual spicy bird liver, this was an exceptional dish of food, unfortunately they ate it so quickly that I only tried it once, but it was enough to make my taste buds go mental!
Anyway, we sailed another day going to a small town called Vathi in Kilimnos where we found a beautiful looking restaurant...
So we decided to eat out... As this was a little fishing town, I knew that the fish would be top-notch and they had: Sea bass/bream, Red mullet/snapper, White fish, and a small fish that I can only describe as anchovy's. We all picked the Red snapper, what a treat, we all shared this massive beast of a fish, it tasted brilliant, with quite a surprisingly small amount of bones.
Next, we went to Port Lakki where we went to an awesome restaurant where I had a pork chop, nothing else, just half a pig sitting on my plate, just look at the size of it!
My Brother had Lamb Chops...
Patmos, was definitely an adventure, we had something completely UN-Greece like... PIZZA. I had the 'Special', which included everything possible that goes on a pizza, my dad had an 'Inferno', my mum had the '4 seasons' they were pretty good, almost better than 'Pizza Express!'
On we sailed, going to a small village, and its renowned restaurant, 'Oguns Restaurant' in Turkey.
His food was good and he was quite a character! The restaurant started when he was the age of 13, it was merely his house with some chairs and a table outside... No sign. The only food he served was Chicken Goulash as the fish was to expensive. But, he was determined and so, every time a boat came in he would swim out recommending his restaurant and helping them moor up. Word spread about the boy who swims out to your boat, and, he was getting more and more customers, the restaurant next to his wasn't getting anyone! They had to close down but as the owner had friends in the military and police, he gave Ogun a hard time... They said to him he couldn't swim out to the boats, so, he built a pier for the boats to stay so he could still get customers. They said he wasn't allowed to use his own pier. But, still people came. Once he had enough money, he bought a boat, and rowed out to the boats, they took his boat off him. Still people came. By this time, Rod Heikell had recommended him in his pilot book, and he was getting hundreds of customers, one night he got a whole 2 flotillas of Russian people, as he only had Chicken Goulash he served them 120 Chicken Goulash. What a man. On the night we were there. He made a fire in a wheel-barrow, it was a success! For more: Oguns Site
But, I must talk about one last thing...
The Bakery
From Bread to Cakes, the Bakery's in Greece sold everything!
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| Bread |
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| Cookies |
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| Baguettes & Waffles |
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| Muffins |
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| Pies & Pizza |
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| Little Treats |
AND that was only a small Bakery!
The other things we did on our holiday, was, visit an 1000 year old Monastery...
Visit a Volcano and a sauna using the heat of the volcano...
And, that's just about it...
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