Evening

At the hotel I decide to have a brief rest. But I fall asleep, and wake up at 21:30. Damn, missed the dinner! Quickly rush out, should be a 15 minutes walk. Since I have a day ticket for the public transport, I jump into a bus that comes by and appears to go in the right direction. But at the next street it makes a turn and drives down several 100 meters. When I get off at the next stop, I have to walk all that distance back again...

Dinner is nice - I have Souvlaki. Afterwards, one of the local guys offers to drive us up to the Lykavittos Hill with a gorgeous view over the nightly Athens. First I think that they have switched off the nightly illumination of the Acropolis, but then I see that we are so high above it, it melts together with the other lights.

Evening dinner at restaurant "Purohit"

After our initial walk around, I plan to walk again, to see a bit more and take more pictures. But tiredness finally overwhelms me, after I had just a total of 2 hours of sleep during the flight, and I take a 2h nap in the late afternoon. We then walk to the restaurant "Purohit", where a variety of delicious Gujarati dishes are being served, for approx. 1 pound per person. Lots of raw onion and garlic – fortunately we all eat the same stuff, so no worries about possible smell effect. After dinner we are invited to Asha’s home where we have a tea.

The tea here is very good: it always is served already with milk in, and quite lot of it. The milk has been heated before being put in the tea, so it happens that a skin forms on top of the tea. It is served in quite small cups, almost as small as espresso cups.

GCCR08 Conference Dinner

The GCCR08 dinner was very nice!