Corfu

August 10th
Corfu, Greece

Today was my first visit to Greece, which I guess makes it important. Unfortunately, there isn’t much to write back about. I took a shuttle into the city and walked around in the 95 degree weather for a few hours. The city was beautiful, usual Mediterranean style buildings, and the streets were packed with souvenir shops. Apparently, Corfu, if not all of Greece, has a strange love affair with cumquats. I have no idea why, but you couldn’t go a block without passing multiple cumquat retailers selling either cumquat liquor or candied cumquat, more cumquat than you’d ever know what to do with. And the worst part was that it didn’t even taste all that good, not to mention the candied cumquats left an interesting slime on your fingers (I’ll leave any inappropriate jokes up to you)… I did get lunch with some friends though, and that was nice. I had a pork gyro (as if I had a choice in Greece), while my other friends picked up a stuffed pepper and a Greek salad topped with a huge slice of feta cheese. We also ordered saginaki (the fried cheese they set on fire at The Village Squire, but not here) and some odd caviar paste, which was bright pink in color, and served as a dip for our fresh pita bread. I didn’t appreciate the glowing fish egg dip, but everything else was just great, and made better simply by sitting outside in a Greek city. I was quickly running out of time though and headed back to the ship for my usual rehearsal and shows.
That night I had a small cheese and wine party with two of my friends, for which I brought the Italian wine. Ben, the band cheese connoisseur, obviously brought the cheese and gave explanations and names I can’t quite remember. But regardless off my ignorance for high end dairy products, it was a nice evening all the same. Thanks for reading!