Feta cheese. And more feta cheese.

We hunted high and low in Athens, and on the internet, spoke to all manners of human beings, I even wanted to ask the hazaar stray dogs scattered all over the city (more about that later), but nobody was able to find us NON GREEK food.  Its been feta cheese and cheese stagmanaki, and local athenian cheese and then local cretian cheese, its been cheese and more cheese. In all forms. Friend, in phyllo, stuffed in peppers, courgettes, zuchinni (whats the difference between courgette and zuchinni?) and in tomatoes and we have stuffed all this down our throats and protesting stomachs, drenched in copious amounts of olive oil, for all the 6 days we have been here. I refuse to now say cheese even for the camera. So last night we went to a - i wouldnt say small village, actually i woundnt say village.. its more like a town..   so any case we went to this village / town and we ate Italian food -- i want to put the bbm dancing emoticon here! It satiated our hearts and the souls and taste buds of my kids . I wanted to hug the owner. Did I mention that the Greek tend to have terrible BO? Therefore I restrained from the spontaneous display of affection and happiness.  We are now talking about Crete - pronounced as Kreete.  Its a huge island, really huge. To a walker in a straight line, from one point to the other 250 kms ! And to the driver, who ofcourse cannot drive in a straight line- 650 kms!!!!  So when we were told about the 2 villages close to us, we decided to try out luck there instead of traveling a few 100 kms for food. At that point feta cheese sounded just alright! Coming back to the stray dogs. They are all over Greece I think. And they are HUGE! I mean really huge and fat (fed on feta cheese me thinks!) And they all look tame, i mean they all have collars and tags hanging from those collars , but they are all sitting around in alley ways and road sides. And permanently sleeping! I have seen very few of them walking and never seen any sitting up. From their sheer size I think sitting up would be a task! They all look abandoned. The greek in their crisis have decided to leave and let go of their most loyal family member. Its really sad to see them.  Crete is a very funny island. Its warm - almost hot and the sea is cold. The first dip is chilling. There are barrenish mountains all around, and on some we can see snow caps! But the sea is blue, green and all Mediterranean.  Last afternoon we swam into the sea. Approximately 1.5 kms in all - back and forth. If the Mumbai Sea were clean, I would let go of all personal trainers and other physical fitness teachers, and stick with an early morning swim in the sea every day! The biceps, legs, torso, everything was fighting the waves to move forward and the heart rate had gone up to a level where we could hear it echoing inside the sea.  Best form of excercise I say...... Bring on the Feta Cheese!