The Swordfish

We've become friendly with  Makis, the owner of the restaurant on Trapezaki Beach, as featured in my last blog and whilst we were having lunch there earlier in the week he invited me into the kitchens to watch the chef fillet and prepare a freshly caught swordfish.

It was huge! It weighed 29kg, and was about the same height as me including the sword which was about 60cm long.

 

                                   ςίϕίας ( swordfish )

Georgos had already cut a 15kg fillet from a 107kg tuna, and was telling me that the largest tuna ever caught in greek waters weighed about 700kg! Wow!

We've had some lovely walks this week around the village. I particularly enjoyed seeing all the fruit growing; figs, oranges, lemons, apricots, pomegranates, almonds and even bananas and a broad bean tree!

 banana tree with flower

 broad bean tree (ok, not really, but what is it?)

 

We've decided to go on holiday .... abroad!  So tomorrow we are going to take the ferry to Ithaca for a couple of days. It's the island to the east of Kefalonia, and neither of us has ever been there before, so guess what the next blog will be about?