Cats, Fish & Rob

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We spent the last three days exploring Nafplio and its surrounding beach towns. Nafplio is vibrant with life, partly because summer is beginning and travel to the coast is picking up. The town has a significant year-round population of about 36,000.

Meals are simple and close to the source: a whole fish, freshly plucked from the sea in view. Greece doesn’t rely on imported food; it’s a deeply agricultural country, and the ingredients speak for themselves. A zucchini tastes like zucchini. All it needs is a drizzle of locally grown and pressed olive oil and a sprinkle of oregano. The cheese—made nearby—is incredibly fresh, likely just days old.

We wandered through a farmers market with tomatoes redder than fire engines, practically bursting with juice. We picked up unbelievably delicious oranges from a roadside farm stand.

Photo: Cats are everywhere—calm, scruffy, and ever-present. They wait patiently at tables for scraps. Rob is about to reward this little guy with the skin from his sea bass. The cat knows. And he waits






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