Getting Our Temporary Passports and Celebrating at the Bread Factory, Athens

We were both relieved and happy that we finally could travel again with our temporary Canadian passports and our replaced credit cards!

Ami at the Athens' Canadian Embassy was super nice and helpful as she did her best getting our passports replaced by Wednesday of the OTHORODEX Easter weekend as we have planned to be at another city to experience the Greek Easter celebrations.

 She explained everything clearly to us to ensure we would able to exchange our temporary passports for the permanent ones after getting back to Canada.

 

With our temporary passports in our hands, I did a happy dance right outside the Canadian embassy! Later on, we also received our replacement credit card couriered to us in Athens by our bank back home.

 

 

With very little money for the past few days, we had to watch every penny we spent therefore were unable to afford eating anything we wished we could. Now, with passports and money in our possession, freedom from poverty! We celebrated by eating a proper meal at a bakery café called the Bread Factory near the Embassy. Not a pretty name for a restaurant, the Bread Factory served pretty good food as the variety and quality of the food items offered in this eatery blew me away. I have never been to a bakery cafe with such a huge choice of bake goods available. I was like a little kid running around in a candy store - amazed, happy and not knowing what to choose to eat!

  Not only did this bakery café offer great choices of bake goods, it also offered hot food items to customers for lunch and dinner and a nice dining area where customers could enjoy their food.

We were in Athens for almost a week and this was our second real meal in Athens. (Having had all our money and credit cards stolen on the second day in Athens, we had to work hard stretching the small amount of cash we had for a few days until receiving the money our son sent us.) We chose fresh grilled fish, salads and baked fava beans in tomato sauce, my hubby’s favourte . We took our lunch into the bakery’s enclosed patio and enjoyed our first real meal in Athens. With our passport and credit card problems behind us, we could finally let our hair down and start to have a good time in Greece.

  We enjoyed our nice lunch at the Bread Factory in Athens. We woul never had gone into a restaurant with a name that conjured up images of a place where people were slaving away working in a factory. But this time, I must admit I was wrong as the Bread Factory did exceed our expectations and served up delicious and affordable good food! 2 thumbs up, Bread Factory!

  RT, Athens, Greece 042026