A dayos near Gaios

All sorts of potential plans were discussed this morning for what we could get up to today but after a long day yesterday we wanted to let the girls sleep, which they did until about midday. Then when they did stir they weren’t keen on doing much, saying it was too hot to go out in the midday sun. So we didn’t push it and I had a bit of a swim, Jess did some work and the girls gradually came to life. We had some lunch at home and then began the process of getting organised to go out. This is not a quick process at the best of times but when putting suncream on is added to the mix it takes forever.
Eventually we were done and our intention was to stroll into town, maybe buy some dresses (not for me obviously), get some food supplies and see about hiring a boat for tomorrow. Part one was not as easy as it sounds. Jess had seen a dress yesterday that she liked but couldn’t remember where so we needed to retrace our steps, all the while checking other shops in case they had anything nice. Shopping in hot weather is not much fun, svitzing like a putz while trying on clothes, or even while standing around waiting for others to try on clothes, is not that pleasant. Even worse if you can’t find anything you like. We were in and out of every dress shop on the island, but we still couldn’t find the elusive dress that Jess had seen yesterday. We did manage to get the good supplies we needed, and we did speak to someone about a boat, although we can’t hire that one until Tuesday. One last lap looking for the dress and there it was, hanging outside one of the shops we had already been in to. Unfortunately upon trying it on it just wasn’t right so most of our trek was for nothing. Only Allegra got something, she picked out a long white skirt, the benefits of being decisive I guess.
Back to our villa to drop off shopping and the girls took advantage of this time to have a quick swim but we weren’t here for long as we set off to a beach not far from here. A nice, chill spot it is, very smooth and round white stones, and most importantly, clear, cool water. My heat levels had been building up across the day and possibly my tolerance levels had been falling in an inverse relationship so I may have been getting a little grumpy. One of our group told me I was patronising and condescending and that they had thought to themselves ‘I hate you’. Even though this was communicated to me before I had managed to get in the water, I didn’t take it too personally, the heat affects us all. Who was it I hear you ask? I won’t say and leave it up to you to guess, answers on the back of a postcard, or in the comments if you prefer. The swim cooled us all down and we shall never speak of this again. We did manage to book another boat trip for tomorrow while sitting on the beach , so that will be a couple of days we are on the water, which we are looking forward to.
We came back home with excitement building, only a few hours until the big match. We had a good chat with Lily to properly catch up on her news and tell her that we miss her several times and then I made dinner, Jess worked and Allegra swam 200 lengths of the pool. A useless digital television meant we couldn’t watch the match as it kept freezing so we had to go into emergency mode and set up a stream very quickly, and by go into emergency mode I mean I sat on the sofa stressing about it not working and Jess sorted it all out. Without going over all the details, she needn’t have bothered, England lived up to all their previous performances and couldn’t get it done. Never mind, when we are out on our boat tomorrow enjoying the crystal clear Greek water, we won’t give a rat’s.Read more