Today has been an extremely long day (and unbelievably
grueling). So last time I left all of you it was somewhere in between 7-8am on
Monday morning in Amsterdam. I had just flown overnight in the middle seat and
was loving life. Well, it didn't get much better from there. So I had this 5
hour layover and here a few things that annoyed me.
1.
Europeans love bread, chocolate and smoking.
2.
Airports have almost no healthy options for
eating.
3.
The seats at the terminal were not made for a
man of my current size.
4.
I spent 40 Euro’s on the wrong adaptor.
So as I sat there scrunched into my small seat waiting hours
for my flight and wanting a nice cold Coca-Cola, piece of Chocolate and
cigarette while the power in all my devices started to die due to my inability
to charge them because of the wrong adaptor I did think to myself well if I can
get through this I can get through almost anything. I’m happy to report that I did not give in. I
went hungry until about 9:30pm in Greece but I did finally get a nice piece of
grilled Chicken and veggies.
I slept well until about 4am but the jet lag is always tough
for me when I am coming this way. Luckily I downloaded 7 episodes of Sons of
Anarchy and had some juice in my Ipad mini.
For breakfast this morning I had some eggs, some bacon (not
even close to the stuff we have at home) and fruit. The buffet at my hotel was
hog heaven; tons of really good breads, sweets and grain cereal. Not going to
lie I came really close to cracking at breakfast. I kept trying to justify why
the fruit wasn’t going to fill me up and that I had a long morning and needed
to eat bread. It’s amazing what our brains can tell us sometime. If I didn’t
have this blog I think I might have taken 8 or 9 pieces of bread. I’m not
hungry but also not full. I’ll make it to lunch.
After breakfast I went out for a morning run around Athens
(that was pretty cool). It’s about 60 degrees here. I won’t really be able to
get out and see the city until Thursday but I did a drive-by of the Acropolis
last night and it looks amazing. Planning on spending all day there on Thursday
so my post that night might turn into a travel blog more than a Paleo one
(fyi).
We’ll I'm getting ready for work now. Till next time.
Still hanging on,
Nick
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