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| There's not that much to do here, but there is the Byzantine Museum (mildly interesting - it will at least get you out of the rain). More creepy Jesus stuff. |
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| Somewhat more interestingly, you can take a tour through a pretty sweet cave. |
Ioannina seemed to have its shit together in terms of bakery + coffee combo places and more modern kinds of business, attire, English-speaking in general. But good luck finding parking. It seemed that the tourist neighborhood near the Byzantine Museum was where all the parking and most of the restaurants were.
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| We finally found a restaurant near the water called, uh, Tavern, maybe, where a man greeted us and happily responded that yes he spoke English and had English menus. |
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| The napkins there - I'll probably use this somewhere on my blog. |
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The bread here was toasted and oiled and lightly seasoned, one of the best bread experiences I had in the Balkans. |
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| We got the appetizer medley for three, which consisted of fried zucchini slices, "flogeres" (little fried ham and cheese rolls), fried cheese balls, fried peppers, a few olives, some Tzatziki, babaghanoush or "eggplant salad" and what they called "cream cheese," which was some kind of cream cheese dip anyway. Good shit. |
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| My friend got this awesome wrap. On the menu it was said Pita or something like that, and it was like 2 euros for this huge wrap with fries, onions, lettuce, tzatziki, and chicken. |
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| Bobby got some kind of meat he said was pretty good. He's not picky. |
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| The porgy (or flatfish) was good, very mild. Not too much oil on everything, which was a nice reprieve. The fries were flavorless and not served totally hot, poor timing on the cook's part. Once again, the fish was the right choice. |
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| For those interested in menus |
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| Chestnut ice cream and coffee ice cream (they had rose, caramel, pistachio, and many more), plus dozens of other desserts and samples of delicious baklava and chocolate halva. |
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