When I searched online, there were so many different recipes, so in the end I didn’t really stick to a single recipe.  I wasn’t too fond of the combination of chocolate and orange. However, the outcome was surprisingly better than I had expected. (You can’t consume too many oranges in one batch though…) What is… Continue reading Orangettes

In Japan, the Richter scale is used, but people tend to pay more attention to our own seismic scale. This scale measures the intensity of shaking (not the size of the earthquake itself) at different points on Earth’s surface. It’s measured using the units of seismic intensity (shindo) and is divided into 10 levels. (For more… Continue reading Did you feel it…?

I’m still trying to master the Greek birthday song, let alone the Christmas carol… —————————————————————————————————————————–

 Shopping Cart 1 Mystery solved!! By the way, it’s a ten-minute walk from this supermarket to my neighborhood. It’s kind of amazing that people would push shopping carts this far…

    Summer equals spending your time at the beach. People prefer sea for their vacation over mountains. Everyone, the young and the old, enjoys themselves at the beach. The sea cannot be separated from the Greek people, so I completely assumed that everyone learns how to swim in the sea in their childhood… However,… Continue reading Sea = Hot Springs?

  It’s not that I cannot swim, but I was afraid of swimming in the sea where my feet don’t touch the bottom. I still fear open water where I cannot see the bottom. It’s fairly normal in Japan for an adult to use a swim ring in swimming pools and in the sea (not… Continue reading Swim Ring

Now if I eat plain tomatoes, it feels something is missing. I also add soy sauce as well. Olive oil and soy sauce is a great combination. Actually, there is a name for this (bread dipped in liquid such as milk). It’s called “papara.” I asked someone about the “borderline” where this practice is acceptable.… Continue reading Feeling adapted #2

I don’t click my tongue though… I realized this after making an arrangement with my friend the other day. In the past, at 7pm I’d have met my friends for dinner. I try to hold myself thinking that it may be annoying…  

Before coming to Greece I was trying to avoid eating after 9pm, so “the Greek mealtime” puzzled me a lot. Restaurants are still empty at 9pm, and it starts getting crowded at around 10pm. Sometimes I feel lucky that we can easily find a table at a restaurant because it’s “too early” by the Greek… Continue reading Mealtime

Everyone manually locks their unit, but I think that in most of the apartment buildings, people don’t manually lock their main entrance. However, when it’s locked it can create problems because, as written above, you need a key to unlock. As I have written in a past post, I cannot understand why, in Greece, we… Continue reading Locks