Between a rock and a hard place

After a full day on the waves yesterday we were all obviously worn out, although I find it very difficult to have a lie in when it is so hot. As I have mentioned before, this is not a problem that Olivia suffers from. So all of us were up at reasonably early times, making a regular amount of noise, and Tate just slept through it all and didn’t wake up until almost 12. We didn’t want to rush anything today, it’s our last day on this island and we will be travelling tomorrow so really it was just a case of relaxing and taking it easy. We had a leisurely lunch and then began getting organised for a trip to a beach. This involved the usual gathering of all beach type stuff as well as getting ourselves lathered up, we all got slightly burnt yesterday, nothing serious but we did need to protect ourselves. Ruby was not keen on going to the beach but we made it clear that she did not have a choice and so she begrudgingly agreed, well maybe not agreed but realised she did not have a choice.
The beach was not too far away, just a walk, but as I may have mentioned previously, it is hot in Greece. We found a place to sit on some rock, but we needed to make a shade for ourselves because the sun was beating down. So we used the beach umbrellas that we bought, although because it was not sandy they wouldn’t really stay in place. The rocks we were sitting on were stepped, so Jess rigged up an ingenious system with some large rocks I collected to weigh down the umbrellas and keep them steady. It was not particularly windy so we weren’t really concerned about them blowing away, it was mostly just to keep them stable, Once that was all sorted we could finally enjoy the water.
We had bought some snorkelling equipment as we figured that with such clear water that this would be something fun we could all do, so the twins and I started off doing this. I really love snorkelling, just floating around and watching fish doing fish stuff, although mostly they are quite camouflaged here, not the colourful ones like we have seen in the Whitsundays or the Gili Islsnds, but it is still loads of fun. The twins got a bit bored, Tate was having issues with her mask, so they just started mucking around and Jess took over snorkelling. Ruby was not particularly keen and she didn’t come in the water today, she just lay around reading. While she was doing this she took her case off and saw that the back of her phone had somehow got some cracks in it, she swears she didn’t drop it at all and that it is a mystery how it happened.
We were all a little mystified by this and were sitting around coming up with theories on it all, Ruby had sat up from her lying position, I think she was slightly upset by it all. At this point there was a gust of wind that just picked up one of the umbrellas, and caused the rock that was being used as a weight to fall down from the upper step and land pretty much on the towels Ruby had been resting her head on. The rock was almost as large as her head, and very heavy, we are very thankful for her cracked phone, otherwise we would have been dealing with a cracked head. Ruby then decided that this rock needed a name, somehow she came up with Alfredo. She also decided that Alfredo might like to see a bit more of Greece and should come on the rest of our travels with us. We left the beach not long after this and came back to our villa to rest up before dinner. Mostly it was a rest, although Jess decided she wanted to match Allegra’s effort of 200 lengths of the pool, and even I managed to churn out 40.
As it was our last night here we decided a dinner out in town was in order so wandered down in the evening warmth, at least the sun wasn’t still at its peak. We found a restaurant on the port and sat outside overlooking the water as it slowly darkened. It was a lovely meal we had, washed down with some cold beer, and I thought that I should have my first ouzo of the trip, it was incredibly tasty, although none of the girls were a fan of the aniseed flavour. Still, when in Greece and all that. When we got home we needed to pack, we gave an early start in the morning. This led to an argument, as Ruby was very keen for Alfredo to come with us and Jess was adamant that he was not. I figured if Ruby was happy with the extra weight in her bag then this was up to her. But I could see the sense in what Jess was saying, and eventually we were able to make Ruby see sense too, so she went outside with her sisters and beat Alfredo like a ginger stepchild until she managed to get a reasonable size stone from him, which we are all happy for her to bring with us as our travels continue.Читать далее