Toronto

Yia sou (Hey)

So yeah, decided to find out just how cosmo this place really is! So a group of around 35 of us met at Chester station in East Toronto for a night in Greek Town. So before we began our adventure we were given a phrase sheet as we were threatened that they will only speak to us in Greek! Anyway, We got to this tiny restaurant on Danforth and we were right at the back and all nicely packed together. The place itself was really nice and we all started off with drinks so Mark and I shared a jug of watered down red wine so it was back to when i was like 4 or 5 when I wanted wine and be like a "grown up" but anyway for my main course i had Bifteki, which as it was described as a greek style hamburger stuffed with feta cheese and grilled to perfection! However it was a huge slab of meat with a feta stuffing inside it. One guy kept coming round and starting convos in Greek which was funny because everyone was looking at their phrase sheets but the right answers weren't on the sheet so we were like guessing the answers and luckily I could work out the answers and stuff from my holiday in Corfu! Also through the night we were asked trivia questions about Greece and I won a bottle (empty) so like a flask for camping! So one guy who was with us, Matt was out with a phrase book trying anything and everything for a mess around so after a shot of ouzo, which surprisingly no-one other than me had heard of it, both Matt and I were dancing with the Greek dressed people and then Mark joined in and in the end we all danced off out of the building and then back in as we hadn't paid but oh well worth a try!

Just in case you were wondering the title "Signomi! Tha-thela i bier parakalo" is the correct Greek for "Excuse me! I'd like a beer please!" instead of the last one I put as I used an online translator, which I keep forgetting never works!

Anyway bed time for me so keep reading!

David