Everything I ate
in Cyprus.

Even bearing in mind that I was staying in Paphos, which is like the scene described in that Monty Python sketch about Watney's Red Barrel, only worse. And with more fish and chip restaurants that get three stars from the Sun.
Fortunately, there are still a couple of places that sell the kind of food you can't get down your local pub, so we went to them instead. I think the crowning achievement was getting me to eat raw tomatoes. I hate raw tomatoes. In a flatbread sammich with halloumi, salami, feta, olives, ham, what have you...mmmm, Mediterranean food. Eaten on the balcony in the ridiculous sunshine too...even better. And to top it all off, the night before we left I had the most amazing charred spiced bloody-centred steak.*

For some reason I put on a shitload of weight there, too. I blame the halloumi. Low fat my arse (which wasn't, at the end).



* Steak seems to be a popular answer, doesn't it? Take note, veggies!
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Fri 27 May 2011, 11:39, 4 replies)

who in blazes told you halloumi was low fat??

(jennymnemonic, Fri 27 May 2011, 13:08, closed)

He's Scottish, everything that isn't in a munchy box is low fat

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 27 May 2011, 13:53, closed)

Munchy box
Are you from Glasgow by any chance? Munchy boxes sound like the bollocks.
( AWPS, Fri 27 May 2011, 14:10, closed)

Embra
but I went to uni there, so I was even more susceptible to the lure of those fucking munchy boxes.

Also, I thought halloumi really is low fat, which is why it went like that when you fried...oh.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Fri 27 May 2011, 19:00, closed)