I absolutely loved waking up mornings with sun rise. sun rose right in front of our house(we hired a little cottage by the sea). When we open the door, here it was. Sun was there. We watched sun rise from sea horizon. It was beautiful. I don't think I ever watched sun rise like that before. Our day started with drinking lemon water. Lemons were from the olive garden. 2nd day there, we explored the garden (full of olive trees). Then we found two lemon trees. We picked them for our teas and water. Smelt wonderful. We were spoiled with fresh spring water, lemons, mountain herbs(mint, oregano, and sage. I'm sure there were more herbs there), and oranges. Then we had breakfast with mug of herbal tea. Our breakfast consisted with; fruits, nuts, hemp mills, sheep's Greek yogurt, and pistachio(or walnuts) honey on top. oh, they were absolutely Divine. some mornings Marcus(he's a very good breakfast chef!) made his special smoothies with home made nutty milk. very rich, fruity and nutritious!
We did qi-gong before (sometimes after) breakfast. it was like whole experience was qi-gong. listening to the sea, watching/listening lives go by(usually sea gulls, fishing boats, waves, rocks, birds and cicada singing). And then we decided to drive our hire car to one of beaches or walked to the beach. When we stayed at home, we had watermelon for our lunch. By the way, eating watermelon in summer reminds me of when i was a child. I used to visit my mum's hometown(Fukushima, by the coast) in summer holiday for a month. It was hot summer especially when i was 14 years old. cicadas singing in background, eating watermelon with sprinkle of sea salt after swimming in the sea. my sun tan hurt. burnt too much as usual... and looking forward to some dinner. my granny and auntie got some fresh sea foods I loved. I missed my family. This holiday brought up lots of my childhood memories buried deep. Also, some feelings came up! I'm better dealing with feelings these days.........
When we were on beaches, we had some fruits, nuts, and plenty of spring water. There were some cafe bars where served freshly squeezed orange juice which we loved. It was about €4 for a glass. When we got back to the olive garden, Marcus went to pick some lemons. I was too short(small) to reach to the trees!
Then we had some chill-out with mug of tea. our tea consisted with; mountain tea(some flower heads), dried/fresh mint, (and sage). First, put them in tea bag. Boil some water in a small pan with the tea bag. After boiling for a couple of minutes, take off from heat, steep for 5mins. Drink with slices of lemons. I'd never had sage in my tea before, it was quite nice. we only add a few leaves. (otherwise too much!) as an option, add 1 teaspoon of honey, which makes tea milder in taste. After our tea and chill-out, we had dinner. Marcus set up table, i made dinner. (I didn't cook, made some salad or pasta salad) We brought some packets of buckwheat pasta from U.K with us. also some seeds mix, trace mix, hemp mills and seaweed. These kind of salad we had during our stay.
Also, Marcus made either smoothies or juice with our dinner. My favo ones were; fresh orange juice, nectarine, and lemon. Pink one was; orange juice, cherries, peaches and watermelon. Both juice/smoothies were absolutely fab. By the way, we did about just over 1liter for 8days. Good extra virgin olive oil like that doesn't taste oily at all. I dressed both pasta and salad with lemon juice and plenty olive oil. I'm sure that was partly why my skin didn't go dry when I got tanned. Oh, and, plenty of water... that was also important! o.k, this is how much we consumed;
it was only 4th day we did this much. And we found our land lord's olive oil in the kitchen. So, we started on that too. This is our landlord(called Costas)'s oil;
It looked really dodgy in the corner of dark kitchen. i didn't know it was really good oil. When Costas told us, i went into the kitchen, and had good look and taste. Here it was, it was perfectly pressed green oil! Bless, he gave us about 1½ liter to take home. Apparently, it would take about 2 years to pick olives from trees. He said there was no money in olive business, he would keep an half of oil for himself and the other half would go to his olive partner. Cor blimey, he was an character!
Anyway, I feel still good from foods we had on our holiday! Healthy dinners!
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