{"id":2459,"date":"2013-09-01T01:33:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T09:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2013-12-07T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T21:23:14","slug":"sun-drenched-olive-scented-katakolan-greece-08102013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2459","title":{"rendered":"Sun-Drenched & Olive Scented \u2013 Katakolan, Greece \u2013 [08\/10\/2013]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FairBeauty\"<\/a>Fried cheese, sunshine, and big floppy hats.<\/p>\n

This was one of those good days.<\/p>\n

That sounded weird.<\/p>\n

Let me start again.<\/p>\n

Doing the whole \u2018lunch\u2019 thing in port is really only fun when you have someone to do lunch \u2018with\u2019. Over the years working with the company I\u2019ve kind of become a loner, and as much as I work to try to change that, I have a hard time beating the reputation. I usually enjoying wandering on my own, but I sometimes wonder if that\u2019s just because my tastes run so different to some of the others on board that I\u2019ve become used to it by habit. I\u2019ve never been a big \u2018people\u2019 person, and much as I often love my team I don\u2019t often feel like I know them well enough to hang out with them outside the office \u2013 so I kind of live on the outside looking in. I\u2019m usually pretty content that way.<\/p>\n

But there is something about this<\/i> team that is challenging that for me. People ask<\/i> me if I want to go ashore with them, people actually want<\/i> to hang out with me, I don\u2019t eat dinner alone, I don\u2019t even go to the show alone (though that\u2019s more since my shadow joined the ship and she\u2019s still finding her way around).<\/p>\n

So today I found myself wandering through Greece with one of my teammates, trying on dresses and sampling olives and becoming giddy over big floppy hats,\u00a0 and ultimately having one of those wonderful ambling lunches where you just kind of talk about everything and then wonder two and a half hours later where the afternoon fluttered off to. I love stuff like that, and it rarely happens to me away from home.<\/p>\n

And the food in Greece is an experience. There\u2019s no such thing as separate courses here, instead you order for the table, and even when you order only two dishes each you will never<\/i> finish everything. And yes, I really did order fried cheese, and it was to die for good, even though I could feel<\/i> it going straight to my hips, some things just taste too amazing not to enjoy.<\/p>\n

Like I said, today was one of those good days\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fried cheese, sunshine, and big floppy hats. This was one of those good days. That sounded weird. Let me start again. Doing the whole \u2018lunch\u2019 thing in port is really only fun when you have someone to do lunch \u2018with\u2019. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48,16],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-2459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-med-2013","category-ports-of-call","tag-greece"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-DF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}