#Tsipouro

[greekbros]

Greek-Bros: tsipouro

Ares: *a little thirsty after a long day of fighting*.....*looks into Olympus's literal only modern day fridge* ....oh sweet an open bottle of water. *Drinks it*

*later*

Dionysus and Apollo: *both dressed up like crime scene investigators and have set up an investigation on why Ares is on the floor pretty much unconscious*

Hermes: *deadass painting the body outline and Ares hasn't even been removed*

Artemis: *taking pictures of Ares on the floor*

Aphrodite: *sobbing thinking he's dead*

Zeus: ....well it's finally happened my hummingbird.

Hera: *equally unsurprised* yep.....we need to put a label on that tsipouro bottle.

Zeus: this is the fifth time this year.

[coffeenewstom]

Kretisches Kaffeetagebuch: Cafe Pontios - Kyriakos Apostolos Triantafyllidis, Zagros

Zu unserer großen Freude hatte die Taverne am Dorfplatz von Zagros noch offen. Nachdem das Klopfen in meinem frischoperierten Finger nachgelassen hatte, bekam ich Hunger. Das betraf nicht nur mich, denn auch meine beiden treuen Weggefährten, die sich bis dahin rührend um mich gekümmert haben, hungerte nach Speis’ und dürstete nach Trank. Und diese beiden Bedürfnisse versprach der Tavernenwirt zu…

[cherry-brewed-tea]

Any other tsipouro lovers out there

[liquidstar]

Made a drick and got way drunker than I expected to turns out it wasn't vodoka in the bottle but my ganfathers home made moonshine 🫡

[666glitter]

I am in Athens rn it's late and my flight is buttfuck early tomorrow so I just stepped outside to the first restaurant near my hotel. It is a Greek restaurant serving Greek food in Athens Greece. I get seated next to a very American family. Mackhenzyie McAmerican was looking at the menu and asked the waitress "now the fried cheese.... is it like cheese sticks?" The waitress' English was really good and I don't know her life but I'm going to hazard an assumption and say she is probably not incredibly familiar with a US supermarket freezer section. So she said uhhh no they are circles. Which made me laugh a lil bit I'm ngl. And McAmerican like no like are they yellow cheese sticks? And this poor waitress. She said they are saganaki cheese and that's yellow kind of? And at this point instead of being a normal human being and saying fried mozzarella. She just kept saying yellow cheese sticks. Shes like the fried yellow cheese sticks that you get at restaurants everywhere (again, she said this to a Greek waitress at a Greek restaurant serving Greek food in Greece) the waitress just kept saying I'm sorry they are circles the chef can't make them into sticks. Eventually Mackhenzyie says you know the mozzarella sticks. And the waitress said no they are saganaki cheese. We don't serve fried mozzarella. My fucking god.

And then McAmerican pulls out the trump card and says well why not. We went to the restaurant down the street yesterday and THEY had cheese sticks. Which the waitress in her infinite patience said something along the lines of "okay".

I am not a pretentious tourist by any means like if you want to fly international just to sit in your hotel scroll instagram reels and eat McDonald's whatever it's your vacation and your money do what makes you happy. But why the FUCK would you go to a Greek restaurant and expect an Applebees menu.

[golden-bean-soup]

My dad telling me I shouldn't drink too much water cause I'll vomit, like miss girl I just vomited the water I had previously drank and my ass is thirsty😭

[glikozi]

Για τα τσίπουρα που έλεγες

psixoula m protimw na paw ston stathmo gia tsipoura pou ta exei kai 1 evro para sto vrwmomagazo

[darkbluekies]

this is actually something i was offhandedly thinking about ever since u revealed silas was greek. this is long asf i kinda rambled so sorry. its silly but i love that u made him greek because im able to connect with him in a way. something about a man like silas finding joy in doing very mundane things with his darling in his home country is so sweet to me. something about picturing him buying a pack of cigs at a periptero because its so accessible lmaooo. having a stroll through an (albeit very loud) laiki. going to an average tavern at a village for dinner, not one of the expensive scammy ones, but the more affordable, & more authentic ones that has middle aged regulars because thats where the real heat is at lmao. he would totally have a koboloi on him regularly, its like a greek man staple 😭 though im not sure if hes fidgety, they're mostly used to keep your hands busy on the side, whether its during conversation, zoning out or simply watching something on tv. if he were to have one he'd be extra asf and get one of the expensive ones lol. going on a road trip to the mountains for some tsipouro at a tsipouradiko with a nice view. & he would love to take his darling to greeces historical landmarks, to just share all parts of his culture w you if you're not from there. i really love unhinged silas but domestic silas can be so good too

i had to stop every other word to google what they meant lol

i loved this so much because i do think that him acting more as a husband and not the gang leader that he is brings out this side of him, i just havent been able to capture it in words because i'm not very familiar with greek culture. You put my thoughts into words.

I think, in greece, you would see a much more laid back version of him. he wouldn't think about work, wouldn't talk about it. He would be normal for once. Just a normal husband :)

[endorphinized]

vgika me 1,13€ panw m parolayta efaga krepa, ipia tsipouro, 2 mpires kai meta efaga kai ena kulouri me tyri

[choiraugur]

9 . 12

9. What are you craving right now?

craving a lot of sleep and a lot of money

12. Favorite comfort drink?

there is no comfort that compares to my sweet beloved tsipouro

[sotiriabellou]

i💗u tsipouro

[coffeenewstom]

Athener Kaffee-Tagebuch: Omonia

Die eindrucksvollste Art nach Athen zu kommen ist sicherlich die aus der Luft. Zuerst war da noch die See, dann taucht am Horizont die weiße Stadt auf, ein schier endloses Häusermeer, durchbrochen von einigen Bergen. Hier aus der Luft wird man sich erst der gewaltigen Ausmaße der Stadt bewusst – mit seinen 38,980 km² ist es mehr als zehnmal so groß wie München! Schon überfliegt man die ersten…

[magpiefngrl]

Top 5 beverages, pls and thank youuuuuu!!

Oh nice one, thanks for the ask!

1.Coffee (though I don't drink much of it anymore)

2. Wine, mostly red/rosé

3. Tsipouro and raki, esp raki with honey

4. Coke Zero on the soft drink side

5. Hot chocolate, though I avoid milk so I never have any now :(

ask me "top five" anything

[bunnikida]

Cretean tsipouro my beloved, it's perfect for an anise hater like me

[glikozi]

thelw na akousw rempetika kai na piw tsipouro mexri ahdias

[daytimedrinkingdiary]

The highs, the lows, the unrelenting heat….

Greece’s summer has been dominated by wildfires, both deliberately and naturally lit. The smoke dominates every horizon and, if the wind’s blowing the wrong way, the immediate surroundings. There’s a lot of talk about it but whether action comes from the talk, well that remains to be seen. Humans - so capable and brilliant - yet spectacularly stupid (and yes, I know I’ve just travelled on an aircraft around the world so can’t wag my finger at anyone).

So the fires and the destruction that continues are definitely a low. There have been others but just part of travelling.

Some highs dominated by the warmth of Athenians we’ve met on previous visits. Kosta at Atlantikos, Fanny & Yorgos at ‘Tiny Dolmades’ (the greeting included a ‘paketo’ of those delicious little morsels) and the musicians at the taverna down Fokionos Negri!

An early morning visit to one of my favourite parts of Athens, the Central Markets and a shop that sells local charcuterie & cheese. The olives, the stone fruit, the TOMATOES!

We invited our friends Tamara & Bill for a picnic on our apartment building’s rooftop. It’s - usually - a serene escape from busy Kypseli. An elderly resident, Ilias, has tended a garden up there for many years and the ‘terraza’ has almost 360 degree views of Athens and beyond. It all started well with the requisite ‘oohs’ and ‘ahs’ from our guests but the peace was soon broken by a Very Angry Man shouting for a long time. We were concerned for whoever he was shouting at but because of the proximity of the buildings couldn’t work out where he was located.

The smoky air was part of our conversation but Tamara observed a thick plume of black smoke ascending from the alley that runs alongside the apartment block. We all looked over the edge to see a fierce blaze at street level, the result of an abandoned motor cycle being set alight. Fire engines and police appeared as well as all the neighbours (it’s very ‘Rear Window’ because of the buildings being so close together). I supposed that was a low/high.

Then a high yesterday when we took another friend Di, visiting from Melbourne, to meet Yorgi at Kafeneio ta Kanaria. We grazed on mezedes for a few hours helped down with tsipouro, then walked a neighbourhood I’d never explored before. Work being done to restore the lovely neoclassical buildings - oh how I’d love one of them. We walked to Monistiraki to ascend to the Pnyx, the ancient heart of democracy as we now know it. It’s a lesser known and visited part of Athens that has its own history and offers amazing views of the Parthenon. And with an ascending moon, well that’s a definite high……

Next stop Nafplio….