The next day, I was woken up by the warm sunshine and had a local specialty breakfast. The boss suggested visiting a nearby undeveloped traditional town where the ancient taste was even more pure.

Walking along the maze-like intricate streets, you can rarely see tourists. It is a completely quiet and leisurely paradise that is not disturbed by the noisy world.

This place is like a microcosm of Santorini. In the tranquility and harmony, the uneven blue and white stone houses are built along the mountains, inheriting the traditional Greek architectural style, with the iconic white staircases and lazy cats and dogs.

Looking down from the top of the mountain, there is the blue Aegean Sea on one side and the towering peaks on the other side, with mountains, seas, and heaven and earth enclosed. Being under the gorgeous and romantic sunset, listen to the fairy tale-like town telling the mysterious eternity...

All rooms face the sea, layer by layer. Wherever you see, the walls, ground, roof, sofa and parasols are all white, while the snow-white ones are blue sky without silky clouds and a vast acre of Aegean Sea.

The sea water reflects the afterglow and shines with moving light. Everything is just right. This is what it means to turn a journey into a poem inadvertently.

Back at the hotel, the sumptuous lunch has been delivered to the private balcony. I sipped a cup of authentic Greek coffee without any haste, overlooking the blue waters of the Aegean Sea and the spectacular volcanic island. Only when I saw the magnificent rich hotels in China could I realize that simplicity is also a kind of beauty.

Elegant and local style, the local style is added with restrained and interesting local characteristics, and all of this is to better set off the magic and beauty of the Aegean Sea.

This luxury in simplicity and noble in simplicity, the overall style perfectly matches the surrounding environment, and the extraordinary feeling of staying is a unique and in-depth experience that touches the soul.

Try the specialty food, Mousaka, known as the Greek national dish, a dish made of minced meat, eggplant, tomatoes and potatoes, added with cheese, stacked on top, and then baked in the oven.

It looks very similar to the Italian lasagna, the difference is that potatoes and eggplant replace the dough, and the taste is good. Especially for Alice, the little girl is simply irresistible to cheese.

A large plate of Souvlaki, Greek kebabs, as for the taste, there is not much seasoning modification, simple salt and pepper fully utilize the taste of the meat itself, mainly large amounts of large amounts, each skewer is solid, with large pieces of meat, pork skewers, chicken skewers, lamb skewers...

For the two brothers Xia Long and Xia Hu, this is what it means to eat!

Finally, I found that those who love to eat sheep are right here, stewed, roasted, sheep heads, sheep internal organs, sheep intestines, only you can't imagine, nothing they can't do.

I ate grilled lamb sausage for the first time. After washing the intestines, stuff them with lamb or chicken, and slowly bake them on charcoal fire...

There are even roasted lamb offals, filled with marinated and mixed lamb internal organs, and then wrapped them in circles of sausages. The oil roasted to the lamb intestines dripped bit by bit, making it crispy and fragrant in the mouth, and it was full of strength.

Traveling all over Europe, the most amazing feta cheese here is called Feta. It has been marinated with salt, has no crust, the meat is white, solid but fragile, with small holes and cracks on it.

Take a bite and hold it in your mouth, remembering the well-known advertisement:

Not all cheeses are called Feta.

Compared with Greece's long and rich history and art, it seems that the food culture is relatively simple. There is no complicated cooking process, only the simplest way to bake, fry or stew. There is no excessive seasoning, with locally produced olive oil and garlic plus lemon or salt.

Especially olives, which can be said to constitute the basic life of the Greeks. In addition to making soaps, lotions and other daily necessities, are also the core of the cuisine, including various pickled olives, olive oil, and olive sauce...

After eating, lying on the bench, enjoying the sea breeze and bathing in the sun, I suddenly found that Alice didn't say a word, staring at the coffee cup in her hand with big eyes, and muttering in her mouth.

Coffee divination?

"The Greeks like to divine, and believe that everyone's luck changes every day. They like to predict the future in various ways. In addition, the history of drinking coffee is early, and the most popular coffee divination is now."

Johnson stared at the coffee cup curiously, with irregular patterns floating on it. Alice carefully poured out the remaining coffee grounds and showed it: "Tyche is the goddess of destiny in Greek mythology. She often brings good luck to those who believe in her. In order to get her favor, she will use the remaining residue, shape or pattern to predict her career, love and health after drinking the coffee."

Seeing that Johnson didn't believe it, he ordered a new cup, covered the plate on the coffee cup and shook it slightly, closed his eyes and thought about the problem, then carefully turned the plate backwards back and waited for the temperature at the bottom of the cup to cool down, and finally opened the cup carefully.

"Look at the pattern, the cup represents the present, the cup top represents the future, and each shape has a different meaning!"

"Animals or trees with four legs usually represent success, such as job promotion and exam success. Things like birds will have some unexpected surprises, preferably those with high wings and flying..."

"This time it's rectangular, I might be rich!"

Johnson couldn't help laughing, what the hell is this?

The little girl likes this inexplicable thing. Alice ignores others and vertically turns the plate to let some remaining coffee flow down, muttering words in her mouth, and flowing the first stream of water means the first wish, the second stream of water means the second wish, and so on.

"MYGOD, you can see it and it flows. The time is so short, and your wish will be realized immediately!"

Everyone laughed. It seemed that superstition in the whole world was similar, with all kinds of strange things, and everything was available.

I heard that the country is carrying a huge debt of 320 billion euros, and the negotiations with the EU are rife, and netizens scolded it because the Greeks deserve it and should not help them.

I found out that the average working time here is 42 hours, which is longer than in Germany!

Germany, which claims to be hardworking, is only 35 hours old. Greece is criticized by the outside world for being a grasshopper. It only cares about basking in the sun and spending the summer happily, and does not think about storing grain in the middle of winter. Why do you take this blame?

It may be because many families have small farms and small workshops that work for themselves, but their income is not high. Most people have a monthly income of less than 1,000 euros, and there are many people who are lower than the minimum wage level of 700.

I am lazy and lazy in daily life. I only go to work at 10 a.m., spend one or two hours having lunch, and get off work until three or four a.m., and rush to retire at the age of 57, lying at home and comfortably to get my pension.

In summer, office workers go home to bed at 3:00 pm and don’t wake up to drink until seven:00 pm. They often chat with each other until late at night.

Take leave, arrive late, leave early, and sometimes you will absent from work if you say hello, which seems commonplace to be there. Many foreign companies are not even willing to hire more local people, but instead hire illegal workers from Macedonia and Bulgaria.
Chapter completed!