Andy Black
Food
I quickly discovered that Greek food is very similar to NZ food, except that it is considerably cheaper. It may be my unadventurous nature, but the only thing that posed a threat on the food front was the Greek naming of the food. Supermarket purchases of mine have included loaves of bread, salami ( which needed to be eaten about 5 hours earlier), chocolate, biscuits, croissants, strawberry jam, cucumber and coleslaw. Dinners have consisted of very cheap, tasty and extremely quickly prepared kebabs for 2 euros. Sunday night's dinner was the first quite Greek meal I've had, an authentic pork gyros setting me back 9.50 euros, the most expensive thing I've bought, eaten up on a beautiful roof-top terrace over the Acropolis. Dinners that night varied greatly that night between the group from beef burger with fries to yet another kebab. Breakfasts have been a real highlight for me in terms of food, the economy hotel provided us with common kiwi cereals and very Greek chocolate and vanilla bread.
I'm sure we will see very different and probably more European food in Rome, where we are heading now.
