Cheese and the travelling dog bowl (Amorgos)
One year (1991), unusually, the Katomeria bus ran morning and evening and one day we took it as far as Kolofano, where we drank a bottle of beer each in the little roadside kafeneion there. The only other customers were a couple of Greek huntsmen, dressed in camouflage battledress, and their two dogs. When you buy a beer in a country bar in Greece, you are often given something to nibble with it. Greeks tend not to drink without some sort of food. With the beer were given some local cheese. Hard, crumbly, extremely pungent and highly-flavoured cheese. Strangely, as I do not usually like cheese, I did not find the cheese unpalatable. Ken found it unpleasant to the point of inedibility. The gundogs not forgotten; the huntsmen produced half-footballs that they filled with water for the dogs. What a practical travelling dog bowl!
An extract from my book about Greece, "Kalo Taxidi".
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