Kipos cafe, in the municipal park of Hania; a great place to rest and people-watch, but at a price: these two items came to 6.20 euro (never mind the fact that we have about 600 orange trees in our village fields). At least the toilets were worth it.
Woohoo! Just one fluffy towel and those sinks would be worth about 3 Euro.
ReplyDeleteNeed help picking your oranges? That was my first work when I came to my kibbutz ulpan in 1968.
I second that on the orange trees (!) :-/
ReplyDeleteIsn't it possible for the farmers to form their own small supply business and take their products directly to the market instead of having to go through the "obligatory" local cooperatives?
(All the same, i hope they don't get greedy and send the prices in.....orbit)
all the best
Those bathrooms are so much nicer than say, the underground ones outside of the agora (I never could understand why my papou refused to let us go down there, when I was little...now I do1)
ReplyDeleteI love your photos. Thanks for sharing. I agreee that the toilets do look worth the price.
ReplyDeleteHi Maria! Sorry for the absence, but I’ve been busy with my parents’ health; almost 180 years to care... ;)
ReplyDeleteWow! It worth the six Euro just for the toilets... ;)) Loved to see your Halepa, as well as the disapearing snow...
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ReplyDeleteThat is won cool bathroom !!!
Well, I guess you pay for the ambience, the view, the toilets and also for the time you spend sipping your coffee and orange juice. You can get coffee and "orange juice" really cheap over here, but you're expected to drink it and leave or order some more pronto.
ReplyDeletethanks for pointing this out Tinsie. My son didnt want to drink all his juice, so i asked the waitress to leave evrything on the table just as it was, so i could pick up my daughter from her tennis lesson. when she returned, she drank the remaining juice, and we stayed at the park close to two hours.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome :-) It was actually my husband who pointed this out, when he heard some Greek friends complaining about the price of having coffee out in Greece. Over here you can get coffee cheaply in some pubs, but you have to pick it up yourself from the bar (no waiter service), you can't hang around sipping the one drink, and they would definitely not save your table for you to come back to! As for the state of the toilets, don't even get me started.
ReplyDeleteThat is a lovely toilet...the cafe isn't bad either.lol
ReplyDeleteI love looking at your pictures. What a nice way to share your part of the world.
ReplyDeleteFabulous toilets too. After some we saw in France that were "less than appealing", I would say yours are first class all the way.
Sam
No one steals the towels? They would be gone in a flash here. It is pretty nice, though.
ReplyDeleteMaria, I have to agree with Tinsie. I don't know where she is from but here in Florida USA where we live, Starbuck's is where you go to have coffee because you can sit out side and have your coffee but it is very expensive and it does not offer anything....Forget about restaurants you have to eat and drink and leave as soon as possible because the more they serve the more money they make.
ReplyDeleteThere is no comparison, People in Greece think that it is expensive to have coffee in a cafe but they don't realize they are paying for a beautiful cafe with a beautiful bathroom and beautiful views and the many many many hours they spend drinking that ONE coffee without any one asking them to leave. The owner must make his money some way, otherwise why have it... I will take pictures some day and show you how it is here.