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« on: December 05, 2007, 07:06:38 PM »
For many years I really loved the food in Sirocco - but in 2007 I was rather dissappointed.

The quality of the food was not the same any more and the prices went up (I'd really prefer the other way round!)

One evening I passed by and saw some friends sitting there - so I stopped - sat down and had a drink (a lovely fresh orange juice). When I paid my orange juice I was not only charged (quite a lot) for the orange juice but also for cover bread (had no meal!!!) by the junior.  

What has happened to this place?

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« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2007, 02:02:44 PM »
Quote from: Uli
For many years I really loved the food in Sirocco - but in 2007 I was rather dissappointed.

The quality of the food was not the same any more and the prices went up (I'd really prefer the other way round!)

One evening I passed by and saw some friends sitting there - so I stopped - sat down and had a drink (a lovely fresh orange juice). When I paid my orange juice I was not only charged (quite a lot) for the orange juice but also for cover bread (had no meal!!!) by the junior.  

What has happened to this place?
Hello Uli,

Yes, some owners can be really greedy can't they. The answer is not to go there anymore, so they don't benefit from their actions. And write a review for the "Article System". There are many good tavernas in Plakias and the general standard in the town is good.

Mike

ps. I wish I had knowledge of a foreign language as good as yours!

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« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2007, 05:16:06 PM »
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ps. I wish I had knowledge of a foreign language as good as yours!
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English is so simple!  
Or isn't it?  

CHAOS

Dearest creature in creation,
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse,
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse-
It will keep you, Susy, busy;
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye your dress you'll tear-
So shall I. Oh hear my prayer.
Pray console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it.
Just compare heart, beard and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written)/.
Made has not the sound of bade,
Say - said, pay - paid, laid, but plaid.
Now I surely will not plague you
with such words as vague and ague,
But be careful how you speak,
Say break, steak, but bleak and streak.
Previous, precious; fuchsia, via;
Pipe, snipe, recipe and choir;
Cloven, oven; how and low;
Script, receipt; shoe, poem, toe,
Hear me say, devoid of trickery:
Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore;
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles;
Exiles, similes, reviles;
Wholly, holly, signal, signing;
Thames, examining, combining.
Scholar, vicar and cigar;
Solar, mica, war and far;
From desire-desirable; admirable from admire;
Lumber, plumber; bier but brier;
Chatham, brougham; renown but known;
Knowledge, done but gone and tone;
One, anemone, Balmoral;
Kitchen, lichen; laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German; wind and mind;
Scene, Melpomene; mankind;
Tortoise, turquoise, chamois - leather;
Reading, reading, heathen, heather.
This phonetic labyrinth
Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch,
ninth and plinth.
Billet does not end like ballet;
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
nor is mould like would and should.
Banquet is not nearly parquet,
Which is said to rhyme with "darky",
Viscous, viscount; load and broad;
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's "O.K."
When you say correctly croquet;
Rounded, wounded; grieve and sieve;
friend and fiend; alive and live;
Liberty, library, heave and heaven;
Rachel, ache, moustache; eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed;
People, leopard; towed but vowed.
Mark the difference, moreover,
Between mover, plover, Dover,
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise;
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable;
Principle, disciple, label;
Petal, penal and canal;
Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal.
Suit, suite, ruin; circuit, conduit
Rhyme with "shirk it" and "beyond it",
But it is not hard to tell,
Why it's pall-mall, but Pall Mall.
Muscle, muscular; gaol; iron;
Timber, climber; bullion, lion;
Worm and storm; chaise, chaos, chair;
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Ivy, privy; famous; clamour
and enamour rhyme with hammer.
Pussy, hussy and possess,
desert, but dessert, address.
Golf, wolf; countenance; lieutenants
Hoist, in lieu of flags, left pennants.
River, rival; tomb, bomb, comb;
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
neither does devour with clangour.
Soul but foul, and gaunt, but aunt;
Font, front, wont, want, grand and grant.
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say: finger,
And then: singer, ginger, linger.
Real, zeal; mauve, gauze and gauge;
marriage, foliage, mirage and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth;
Job, job, blossom, bosom, oath.
Though the difference seems little,
We say actual, but victual.
Seat , sweat; chaste, caste; Leigh, eight, height;
Put, nut; granite but unite.
Reefer does not rhyme with "deafer".
Feoffor does, and zephyr, heifer.
Dull, bull; Geoffrey, George; ate, late;
Hint, pint; senate, but sedate;
Scenic, Arabic, pacific.
Science, conscience, scientific;
Tour, but our, and succour, four;
Gas, alas and Arcansas.
Sea, idea, guinea, area.
Psalm; but malaria,
Youth, south, southern; cleanse, but clean;
Doctrine, turpentine, marine,
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion with battalion,
Sally with ally, yea, ye
Eye, I, oy, aye. Whey, key, quay.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, receiver,
Never guess - it's not safe.
We say calves, valves, half, but Ralf.
Heron, granary, canary;
Crevice and device and eyrie;
Face but preface, but efface;
Phlegm, phlegmatic; ass, glass bass;
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, but scourging,
War, earn; and wear and tear
do not rhyme with "here" and "there" but "ere".
Sever is right, but so is even;
Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen;
Monkey, donkey; clerk and jerk;
Asp, grasp, wasp; and cork and work.
Pronunciation- think of Psyche -
Is a paling, stout and spiky,
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing "groats" and saying "grits".
It's a dark abyss, or tunnel,
strewn with stones, like rowlock, gunwale
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Don't you think so, reader, rather
Saying lather, bather, father?
Finally: which rhymes with "enough"
Though, through, plough, cough, hough,
or tough?
Hiccough has the sound of "cup".
My advice is-give it up!!!

Author: G. Nolst Trenité  
Oh yes he was a Dutch teacher  
« Last Edit: December 07, 2007, 05:21:13 PM by beachcombers »

Offline Chris H.

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« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2007, 06:15:10 PM »
Wow!!!
Great man!
My misses will love this.
I'm Dutch, she's a regular Geordie living in Holland for the past 30 years being a teacher in a Dutch primary school.
Thanks!!
Chris H.

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« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2007, 04:27:13 PM »
Marge will love this too, she is always saying how sodding inconsistent English is :'(

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« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2007, 09:24:57 PM »
Greek might be thought of as dificult to learn, but there is one thing that makes it easy. At least once you have mastered the rules of pronunciation, it's remarkably consistent, unlike English.

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« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2007, 01:12:27 PM »
Back on subject:
PLEASE tell me things have NOT changed, does Babis and his dad still run things? The Siroko was one of the the main reasons we are returning to Plakias this June.
Also, if anyone has any sway with the Alianthos group, can you let them know we are VERY disappointed the Train is no longer running! A pet subject of mine as the day trips were so relaxing, and so close to the sights, smells and sounds of Plakias.

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« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2007, 04:14:17 PM »
Quote from: JBMouse
Back on subject:
PLEASE tell me things have NOT changed, does Babis and his dad still run things? The Siroko was one of the the main reasons we are returning to Plakias this June.
Also, if anyone has any sway with the Alianthos group, can you let them know we are VERY disappointed the Train is no longer running! A pet subject of mine as the day trips were so relaxing, and so close to the sights, smells and sounds of Plakias.

I don't think you have any reason to wory about Sirocco and its owners.

We used it many times during our stay in Plakias this year and, as usual, never found it any worse than excellent.

In fact we think that only Harakas (much improved this year?) and Lycos (owner still bossy?) come close to it.

Our worst meal of the stay was at Christos but maybe just a bad night?

But every one to their own!!