After our lunch, the group headed down to a bookstore and coffee shop for some famous traditional Greek coffee. Inside the store, Greek books lined the shelves and the language's elegant, foreign letters lined the walls. As a table was cleared for our group, we admired the alien novels in the back of the quaint establishment. The menu came in the form of a small paper book, with mostly Greek covering its pages. Luckily for us, the shop also provided an English version, which had a quote by JD Salinger on its cover: "I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music, and I'll bolt the door." Most of the group ordered lightly sweetened double shot coffees along with an assortment of desserts. Sweet bread with nuts, rich chocolate cakes, and apple pie covered our table as our waiter brought out the coffee. Greek coffee tastes very little like your typical order from Starbucks. More like a rich dark chocolate, it has a bold and unique flavor unlike anything you can find in the United States. The coffee grounds remain in your cup and are said to be able to predict your future. After draining the small but powerful cups, we flipped them upside down and onto the circular indent in our saucers. Typically, one would wait ten minutes before lifting the cup, so we filled the time with our stories from our day at Acropolis. When ten minutes had passed we flipped our cups again, revealing the patterns that the coffee grounds had made. Our kind waiter assisted us in understanding their meaning, advising us to look for shapes or letters on the sides of the cup. That concluded our afternoon of laughing and learning, before we headed back to our hotel for some rest.
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