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Kamiros
The Inn Of The English Knights
CRUSADERS CASTLE
AquariumWhere Have All the Veggies Gone?
When I flew off to Rhodes at the end of May, I saw lovely veggies in my mind’s eye. I imagined a sunny Greek island with a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables on every table. So I was very surprised to find that fresh produce was not plentiful on Rhodes – at least not when I was there.
The few vegetables sold in the shops all over the island were shriveled, half-rotten, and grossly overpriced. With much effort, I was able to pick up a few reasonable looking tomatoes. The buffet breakfast at our hotel did not offer anything remotely fresh. The closest to anything resembling fruit or vegetable were olives and sliced canned peaches.
On the other hand, a restaurant on the main street that runs through Kremasti (outside Rhodes Town) prepared a baked vegetable casserole for me. It consisted of layers of darkish looking vegetables. It was hard to tell, but I think it contained eggplant, zucchini, onion and peppers. Whatever it was, it was tasty. Anyhow, we were so charmed by the waitress and her answers to our questions about Rhodes history (October 28, 1944, when Rhodes stood up to the Nazis, was the “day of the Big No,” she said) that food really played a secondary role.
All in all, I did not go hungry in Rhodes. The salty feta cheese and plump Greek olives were nice, the pizza was fine, and I adored the ice cream.
