Saturday, March 31st 2012
...An evening I'll never forget filled with many laughs and good times.
Chrisanthy came to pick me up from my sisters polikatoikia around 9:30pm feeling bad that she had been working the entire day, I offered that I drive and take my sister's car ( a small Hundai Getz). Finally decided where we wanted to go, and thankfully Chrisanthy had her GPS we made our way to down town Athens. Along the way we somewhat caught up on what we have missed out on each others life since 2009. Following the GPS's directions, we finally made it in the area of the restaurant. The GPS indicated that I needed to turn left, blinker on and ready to turn, there is this big down hill, leading to the street where we need to go. Now all this may seem normal to you , ( wish I took a picture to show but i guess my narration must do). In Canadian standards this "street" wouldn't even qualify as an alley way but as a walk way. With cars parked on the right, and barely any room for the car to go through, we had to make our way down. Any normal Greek driver, would have already made it down by now but being somewhat cautious, I folded the side miror in and proceeded with the car in nutral. The both of us laughing our heads off we finally made it down. Finally arrived to our destination in the Kolonaki area, there is evidently no parking untill last minute, yet on an other side street, but this time cars parked on both sides, there was an opening big enough for the car. After several manouvres, the car is parked, just one small details, no cars could get through. Back to the drawing board it was. Now being typical Canadian we looked for a payed parking lot annd parked the car.
Arrived at the restaurant it is as if Chrisanthy knew what time of environment i liked. This restaurant was perfect to the T. the decor was somewhat urban yet traditional, classy yet casual but also cozy at the same time. Oddly enough we both ordered the same food.... Mpiftekia mai patates tiganites ( beef patty & home made fries... Sitting at the dinner table, we where both able to fully catch up on each others Kotsobolio ( gossip/news). The food topped it all off, tasted home made, to the point you could "taste" Greece.
The night as young as us we headed to a different part of Kolonaki and experienced the Greek bar hopping. The 1st place we entered was called "TEN" the place was rammed to the ceiling. mingled our way through the crowd to the bar we ordered our drinks. 3 songs later, they start playing English music, to think i thought the place was already wild, i had to take a second guess. The minute S&M by Rhianna came on, it was a whole diffrent place. Everyone went crazy. We both decided to head over to the next place, where to our surprise yet again was just perfect, various types of music, having a blast time flying by, was time for us to head back home. Kolonaki is an area that is on a "mountain" so although making our way down was easy we had to walk all the way back up to fetch the car, now having had a few it made it a lot more interesting. Looking behind us you can see all the way down, Chrisanthy holding my arm so she wouldn't fall, I remember saying " if you wall and drag me down this would make for an interesting story, the two of us roling 4 blocks down not being able to stop hahahah". The ride home seemed faster then the ride there. untill the next time...
