Final segment for kat & Amos. Picture if you will...our hero who has an unjustified confidence in his Greek, especially words for food and drink. He decides to go to the taverna on the hill for lunch. At the entrance a blackboard announces in English "Today's special: goat with lemon". "I'll have me some of that." he thinks and, being a clever dick, orders it in what he thinks is Greek. Waiter does double take. What he has ordered is "koukla me lemoni" , NOT "katsaki me lemoni". Orders again in English. "What did I say?" The waiter explains "koukla", literally "doll", is slang for an attractive young lady. Quick as a flash our hero says "I'll have some of that as well." Herself sneers: "He's bragging, especially at lunch time"!
But it didn't end there. Herself told the family at the Artistico that evening and it became a standing joke for the rest of the holiday. Maria, the daughter, who I'd always though was a nice girl (though she used to tell me off for not eating my fish-heads which they reckon is the best bit) would ask me if I wanted lemon with every dish. I tried to redeem myself by asking for "yaya me rothakino" (grandma with peaches) which went down quite well.
I got one slightly back at Herself when she asked if she should water the parlour palm in our apartment which turned out to be plastic but on the whole, I provided amusement for several days. The general opinion was that if there was a vacancy for village idiot I might fail the entrance exam!
"koukla me lemoni!" George would chuckle every time he passed me!
I bet they won't have forgotten by next year either!
RtS (Yassoo)