All Inclusive 2023

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Is "all-inclusive" an American thing as well, a Global thing maybe? Because in Europe it's the status quo. It's the 15'th year or so since I started taking my vacation in Greece in the summer and after dabbling with a few other destinations, Turkey, Netherlands, Italy, Cyprus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayia_Napa was a thing to remember ), Spain and within Greece, Corfu, I settled for Crete.

 

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As time went by I reverted to a known situation and booked a place closed to Heraklion, a city about the same size as my own ( https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluj-Napoca ), in the suburbs. For tax purposes, I live in the most populated village in Romania: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florești,_Cluj . Although the same distance from Cluj as Ammoudara beach from Heraklion, and home to a population not reached by many cities in the country, the location is still classified as a "village", which with the risk of repeating myself, is great for tax purposes. Technically I'm a peasant and taxed as such, that is.

There's thousands of years of synchronicity between Romania and Greece, not counting both are Christian Orthodox and collaborated heavily on getting their independence from the colonial era (Turkish Ottoman Empire). But every summer trip I take to Heraklion suburb, I find another reason to move there if I can afford it

 

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This, by the way, is a very peasant "all-inclusive" Romanian dinner. "Ultra-all-inclusive" in fact since because it's summer and not winter, in addition to lard, onions and bread it also features spoils of the tomato family: tomatoes and eggplant salad.

Also, if you haven't tasted Romanian eggplant salad ("salata de vinete", a variant of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_ghanoush ) you really don't know what eggplant can taste like. Gods themselves on occasion will exchange ambrosia for Romanian eggplant salad.