Athens Food Blog. Flog?

DATELINE: SOMEWHERE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA--
Emma and I are sitting in the ferry going from Crete back to Athens, where we'll catch a train or a bus cross country in order to catch our ferry to Italy in a few days. We'll probably hit up Olympia, and we'll try and make it to an island famous for its sea turtles. Other than that, we're keeping it pretty easy.

 Keep an eye out for our photos from Crete, including one of mine involving a severed pig head. We'll have those up in the coming days.

Also, I'm currently editing a video interview with a Japanese classmate of mine. I think it'll come out pretty well.

And we'll have another food blog post coming your way.

As for now, here's our first such post-- Emma's musings after meeting our gyro hero:

You can't go far in Athens without crossing paths with the international symbol of Greek food: the gyro. We had our first at Thanasis and have since decided it would be acceptable to eat one for every meal. Meat cooked on a stick, fresh onions, tomatoes and fries(either on the side at a sit down restaurant or cleverly tucked inside the pita for the perfectly walkable meal). 

S&P can be found on every table, though in Greece S&P stands not for salt & pepper, but salt and paprika. Paprika serves as a subtly smokey finish to many plates(gyros, french fries, etc). 

The perfect bite, in action. With a slightly more buttery grilled pita, thinly sliced red onions, roasted tomatoes, juicy ground lamb and a sprinkle of paprika, the gyros at Thanasis left us quite content. And at a shockingly quick rate -- food arrived before the bus boy had time to get our Coke out of the fridge.