Goats and sheep and bells

We started cycling through endless orchards of olives and pistachios. Greek olive oil is some of the best in the world - next time you go to buy some olive oil, look for Greek, splurge a little and enjoy the richness of one of the diverse flavours available in Greek oils. Don't get me started on pistachios.

Later on we started seeing apricot orchards and grape vines in the wine region of Nemea. Then in the mountains the vegetation transformed to more pine trees, then fir tree (have you even had Greek fir honey? There is NONE better!). In some areas there were also innumerable bee hives in fields beside the road. Greek honey is some of the best in the world. It is certainly the best I have ever had.

What do you eat with honey when in Greece? Greek yoghurt of course. Again, some of the best in the world. I can even say it's better than what I make. The best stuff is called traditional style, comes in clay pots and is made with sheep's milk.

So what else did we see in the mountains? Lots and lots, and I do mean lots of sheep and goats. Some old shepherds looked like they had just stepped out of the last century... maybe even the one before that. Some were more modern in their approach but all had bells on their animals. And what a lovely sound in the hills, bells and birds chirping.