It's our last night with Demetris as he flies off to Dubai with his Dad, Andreas for a business symposium the next day. So, with Jungle securely docked we head out on the town once again with Demetris and lovely friend Mary Jo. Behind us are a stack of the chef's recipe/travel books.
Let's take a quick station break and take a look at Demetris company sponsored rally car. The rally takes place all over the island and unfortunately for this ETEX car, a broken axle did it in. No biggie for D, this is all part of the racing game.
Now back to dinner. Mary Jo suggested this out of the way place called Ta Piatakia (Greek for small plates). What an unbelievable place. Fortunately, Jenée takes more pictures of food than anyone I know, so we can share. Your looking at Halumi cheese wrapped in philo and honey on the left, blue cheese and pomegranate thingy in the middle and fried celery leaves in the glass jar. We'd never had any of those, loved 'em all! We also had duck liver with sweet, baked walnut shells (are you kidding me), mushrooms, bacon wrapped cheeses, some kind of chicken thing, on and on. Wow! Whacky and delicious!
Check out this salad. Jenée is the salad eating queen and she can't get enough of the salads over here. For that matter, neither can I. The chef/owner is Roddy, a Greek raised in South Africa and is now on the travel channel. Jenée bought his cook book which will do fine on our coffee table.
Mary Jo Murray is from Dublin, Ireland, has the sweetest Irish lilt and was an absolute hoot. Jenée and I had a blast.
Of course we ended up having dinner at 10 PM and closing the joint down - with cigars!
And when Mary Jo learned of my Irish heritage, it was all over! What do you do at 1:30 AM after dinner is over? Why you go out! Yikes! We're at it again!
So now we head over to catch up with Mary Jo's Irish lass pal Lorna. We met at Lorna's husbands bar/club. Lorna describes her husband, Kypros as a Ron Jeremy look alike. Yep, he looks like that Ron Jeremy - look him up. Try using the search word "schlong" - might help.
Any hoo, it was a fun, loooong night and we called it quits at the reasonable hour of 4 AM.
No matter, for Jenée and I both agree we love Cyprus and we love Demetris. What a guy! I'm just happy for him and how well he is doing. A long way from managing restaurants in Austin, TX. We will meet again my friend.
Now it's back to work on Jungle. I can't believe I woke up during daylight! Our old friend from last year, Pambos, in white hat came by to polish and shine up Jungle and he brought his friend Chris. Pambos is a former professional basketball player in Cyprus, while Chris is a former Cyprus Navy Seal. Perfect guys for shining up your boat! Funny guys too.
I'm leaning over the side and shooting back so you can check out that shine! OK, on the teak toe rail, that was my job and I might be fired soon but I'm working on it. Proper teak varnishing takes 3 - 4 days minimum and lasts 6 months max. So now I will drop this sledgehammer on my toe to test my quickness. As for the footwear, let's just say orange robes, tamboreens and airports may be in my future. While, we are on toes, any comments about a need for a pedicure? Shut up!
Jungle has never looked this good. Bravo Pambos and Chris.
And the fluff princess couldn't agree more! Next, we are off to the tiny Greek island of Kastellorizou (also called Kastellorizon). This is the eastern most Greek Isle. and is only a few miles from the Turkish coast. It is so close to Turkey that we find it in the Turkish Waters Pilot book, not the Greek one. Yassas Cyprus! Bye bye.
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