. The Burton Holmes lectures;. d to Captain Papadopoulos not to credit assur-ances of optimistic friends in future, but to pepper theenemy regardless of the feelings of our hosts. Thereafterwe eschewed the hospitality of local notabilities and lodgedin wayside inns or khans, as they are called, where,without hurting the hosts feelings, we could turn his housewrong-side out, dust it off, scrub it down, refurnish it with GRECIAN JOURNEYS 193 our own household goods, and then enjoy both cleanhnessand picturesqueness, two things most difficult to reconcile inGreece. We dine in luxury, our chef pre
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. d to Captain Papadopoulos not to credit assur-ances of optimistic friends in future, but to pepper theenemy regardless of the feelings of our hosts. Thereafterwe eschewed the hospitality of local notabilities and lodgedin wayside inns or khans, as they are called, where,without hurting the hosts feelings, we could turn his housewrong-side out, dust it off, scrub it down, refurnish it with GRECIAN JOURNEYS 193 our own household goods, and then enjoy both cleanhnessand picturesqueness, two things most difficult to reconcile inGreece. We dine in luxury, our chef preparing every nighta dinner better than those served in hotels at Athens. Wedrink the native wine. It is always strongly impregnatedwith resin, giving it a peculiar flavor, but we learned to likeit well, and called for it whenever we halted at one of theroadside inns or resting-places. At first the stranger thinksthis resined wine abominable. It is said that an Englishbishop, after swallowing his first glass of native rezinato,. \VK AKKIVE AT SlNSlir 194 GRECIAN JOURNEYS assured his host that his mouth was so puckered out of shapethat he would not be able to speak the truth for a traveler affirmed that drinking rezinato was likelicking the side of a freshly sawed pine plank. One goodAmerican imported a barrel of his favorite brand of it reached the Customs Inspectors in New York, the
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