Athens: Peter & Greek Food

Did I ever mention that our friend Peter used to own a Greek restaurant in Monterey, called Epsilon? No wonder, everything he is putting on the table is just delicious, well spiced, perfectly finished and sooo tasty! My plan of loosing a few pounds will be postponed – again!

Dinner party with his neighbors and friends (from left: Edith, Jenny & Yanis, Ted, Yanis & Dagmar)

Peter is not only a good cook, he also shows us different neighborhoods, where the locals go, where you can eat authentic food and feel a little like a Greek who lives here in Athens and enjoys the mild winter weather. It is December now and 15 degrees Celsius. A few raindrops here and there, a warm breeze from the nearby Mediterranean; there is nothing to complain about! Our initial 2-3 night stay is changing into a 1-week stay I guess. There is so much to do, so much to see…..


Harbor walk with little boats and big ones; really big ones

Today we walked around Peters neighborhood Alimos, right outside of Athens at the Saronic Gulf. The water is 1 (one!) block away from the house!

The biggest ship we saw today , Radiant, was one of those super yachts, and costs just ~$600 million!

RADIANT

Lurssen 

LENGTH 110m

TOP SPEED 21 kn

GT 5027

DELIVERED 2009

BEAM 16.3 m

GUESTS 20

CREW 44

A sister to Al Raya, Radiant was commissioned by the Russian media tycoon Boris Berezovsky, who wanted a rival to Pelorus, owned by his arch enemy Roman Abramovich. However, he subsequently sold her to Abdulla al-Futtaim, a billionaire car dealer from the United Arab Emirates, before she was completed. As well as the standard features for a yacht of this size – helipad, gymnasium, cinema, spa – she has one of the highest security specifications ever conceived. Berezovsky ordered a personal “escape launch” – a speedboat with turbo-charged twin diesel engines capable of exceeding 75 knots. She is also equipped with an arsenal of sonic guns that fire low-frequency sound waves that can burst the eardrums of approaching assailants, and a military water cannon capable of sinking an approaching boat at more than 100 yards