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Bodrum Turkey Vacation I treated myself with a visit to Bodrum Turkey, which is a ferry trip away from Kos Island Greece. Just a normal ferry, not a cruise in one of those famous wooden Bodrum gulets… Being far far away I treated myself with an iced coffee: Bodrum Turkey style!
Bodrum Turkey coffee drink with whipped . . . → Read More: Where to drink the best iced coffee? The highlight of my day these days happens to be in the late afternoon: after the lunch cleaning up and midday-break and just before rush-hour dinner time. It’s around “now” that I go out and have a cup of authentic Greek coffee. For the purists amongst us: Greek coffee is as Greek as French fries is French. . . . → Read More: Greek Coffee So on my educational trip around Kos Island learning about How to get pregnant in Greece and other Greek cultural activities, the highlight of my trip was of course being able to sample the Greek authentic food! … Greek fries (cannot call them French fries being on a typical gourmet trip in Kos Island, Greece), Greek omelet . . . → Read More: Greek Food Picture Did you know that hibiscus flowers are edible flowers? That’s what the self proclaimed cookingdiva told me today when I had a drink in her little tavern with a view over the Aegean Sea. According to her it’s best to serve the yellow and orangey coloured hibiscus flowers, as the taste reminds you a bit on . . . → Read More: Edible Flowers If you want to eat Turkish kebab with lots of French fries, then the best place to go is Kos Greece Just for the fun of it I ordered myself another "typical" Greek dish, well, maybe because I love the colours when you put hem on camera: yellow French fires, green cucumber and red tomatoes, . . . → Read More: Greek food picture Ok, I agree, this is a very small picture, but what can you do when you take a photograph of the smallest church in the world? Actually it’s not a real church, not even a chapel, it’s kind of a shrine next to the road. And only the people who put the shrine there will know . . . → Read More: The worlds’ smallest church Normally the tourist season in Kos ends this month in October, so I should get out of here in November as most of the overseas Greek do here. Yet with the temperatures still high, I wonder when we really are going to "close shop" for this season. Apart from the fires in Greece, the tourist season was . . . → Read More: Last coffee in Kos So I am nicely sipping my coffee in a local cafe at the seashore here in Kos and I see a guy snorkeling up down left right… Now as far as I have seen the waters near Kos, there are no corals here, so what the heck is he snorkeling about? Never mind, snorkeling is relaxing, so . . . → Read More: Help: a squid in my coffee! My ideal passing time here in Kos is jumping on a bike and drive to one of the many cafes, bars, pus, canteens… next to the seashore. I am not a real "fry me on a beach" person, since I am aware that skin-cancer is on the rise. Just give me a good old cup of . . . → Read More: Sipping coffee at the seashore Lunchtime is just finished here in Kos, Greece so time to relax with a well deserved Although these Turkish coffee cups are quite tiny, I suppose I am still having a bigger coffee intake than when I drink normal coffee in normal cups. Anyway, it beats the . . . → Read More: Coffee break in Kos Condolences to my Greek Cook in the streets What I was missing this year compared to the last time I was in Kos, was the old lady sitting in the street where I went for a little stroll each and every evening. Seems the old yet generous lady is no more, so this post is in honour . . . → Read More: Turkish delight recipe What’s cooking in Greece? You can compare Kos Island with 1 big Greek restaurant. Let me give you an in depth explanation of Greek food… Going to your Greek restaurant quite sums it up what you can eat here in Greece: meze or mezze. Mezze is the equivalent of tapas in Spain and antipasti in Italy yet with . . . → Read More: Restaurant Greek If you are in Kos Greece, you take the ferry to Bodrum to have this delicious breakfast: fresh "Turkish melon" with yogurt. Homemade yogurt: the yogurt you turn up side down and still sticks on your bowl!
homemade yogurt Ok, its not that "practical" to always take a ferry to get fresh yogurt, better get . . . → Read More: How to make yogurt Do you love chocolate truffles like I do? Skinny or not, I am a die hard chocolate lover! Look at the pictures on the right and what do you imagine when you read the words Leonidas? Well, I tend to believe that Leonidas was a smart brand made by a Belgian chocolate maker to brand his fine . . . → Read More: Leonidas Belgian chocolates
Greek Beer… or so I think… Blinded by thirst what I see in Belgium: each beer has its own glass. So I saw this nice beer glass and I thought: gosh, finally some real beer in Greece! Turns out that it was yet again another lager beer, and reading the label closely: since it . . . → Read More: Greek beer Just be warned that the food you eat in your local Greek restaurants could be more tastier than the food served in Kos restaurants!
Greek Food Pictures… Get the picture? It’s exactly like what they cater in your local Greek restaurants! Or even worse: you never have seen so many French fries as on a menu . . . → Read More: Greek Food Picture For a travel guide based on real experiences by real people go to realtravel.com. This is a travel guide and trip planner powered by advice from real travelers. The Editors Picks have all the best travel experiences, photos and recommendations from the community of RealTravel for people who love traveling and do it passionately. You can discover . . . → Read More: The worlds’ best travel guide ever!  Leave a comment  Australia, Belgium, Bodrum, Bodrum Turkey, Bulgaria, Buzz, China, Costa Rica, Cruises, Cultures, Daily Kos, Elba, England, Greece, Greek Food Picture, Hawaii, Hotels in Malaysia, Italy, Japan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Malaysian Food, Malaysian restaurants, Misc, Philippines, Planet Food, Restaurants, Reviews, Singapore, Spain, Taiping, Taste of Home, Thailand, Travel, Travel Jersey City, Turkey, Tuscany, USA, Vietnam Where to take the best hibiscus pictures? Apart from Hawaii, I would say Malaysia. Hibiscus is our national flower and hibiscus flowers are used in many tourism advertisements of Malaysia:
Hibiscus flower picture (yellow flowers) Hibiscus pictures Again, ask me 3 places to visit for taking hibiscus pictures, I say Hawaii, Greece-Turkey and Malaysia. I will be . . . → Read More: Hibiscus pictures No Starbucks coffee or any other coffee franchise here in Kos Greece. Yet it’s a cold (12 degrees) gray day, and I was in need of a very strong hot cup of coffee! Nothing else to do here basically… Turkish coffee Greek coffee, cal it what you want, but it looks like this:
Coffee service here today included . . . → Read More: Greek Espresso
So TheSkinnyCook is in Greece. I was invited by relatives who ventured all the way to Kos Island in Greece. I am on a personal discovery tour to find delicious Greek food. Like always when traveling in an unknown place, I "eat where the crowd eats". Yet there is no crowd . . . → Read More: Greek Food Picture |
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