Sven + 3

We realised today that it was the three year anniversary of the night our beloved Sven caught fire. That was obviously a fairly traumatic event for us and it led to big changes in our holidays, we certainly wouldn’t have been on this trip if he was still around. We didn’t do anything to mark the occasion but we did all stop and think for a bit.
Today we just decided we would spend a bit of time on a beach, to enjoy some of what is so nice about this island. Jess had read about a beach that had free sunbeds and although this potentially sounded too good to be true we figured we may as well check it out. First we stopped in town to sort a few things out, number one being to get some cash from the ATM. There were a couple of guys standing nearby chatting, in a completely normal way, but as I walked up to the machine Jess decided that she needed to stand at my shoulder reading a large map of the town she had unfolded, just to protect my pin. We all knew she was doing this but she wouldn’t admit it, she said she was genuinely trying to work something out. We are still not sure what, and I didn’t have the heart to tell her the map was upside down. We also spoke to a guy about hiring a boat tomorrow so we can really check out some otherwise inaccessible beaches. For today though, accessible beaches it was, with free sunbeds apparently.
Of course if a beach is accessible for us, it is accessible for the whole world, and as we drove down to he hill towards it we could see the rows and rows of sunbeds which didn’t look so appealing. Fortunately we could also see that beyond that there was plenty of beach that was nice and empty. When we parked the car and walked through the ‘free’ sunbeds it was chaos, sunbedlam if you will, it was fairly mobbed, those that were free were many rows back from the water and there was certainly no chance of getting five together. Very quickly we decided that was not for us, so we walked through and along the beach with crowds thinning out as we did so. It is impressive just how lazy most people are, they would rather be crammed into a tiny space than walk five minutes along the beach to find a secluded spot. I think we ventured further along than anyone else, and Ruby found us a nice spot with a little alcove in the trees providing us with plenty of shade.
We were pretty hot by this time so we were very quickly into the water to cool off. We spent a bit of time just relaxing, we had some food, tasty spinach and cheese pies, read books, did some snorkelling and swimming, all with very little disturbance from anyone. I even managed to get comfortable enough, with a perfectly shaped rock as a pillow, to have a little nap. I did wake up with pins and needles in my head though, making Jess briefly concerned that it could be an aneurysm. We managed to do all of this without one of us thinking to take a photo, most unusual, so it is possible that it didn’t actually happen. After a while of relaxing, with some further swimming, we decided it was time to head off.
We stopped off again in the town with the intention of getting an ice cream, amazingly after ten days in the heat of Greece we had not stopped for one ice cream, I had imagined that we would be having at least one every day. We chose a cafe on the waterfront and decided on smoothies and some cake, so still no ice cream. Again, no one thought to take a picture, so it is possible we just imagined it all. After that we picked up a few things and headed back for home. We did fun stuff like wash our clothes and get stuff for dinner, or in Jess’s case, work. Then we had dinner on the terrace when the sun had gone down and it was a little cooler. A little bit of planning of our day had gone a long way.Leia mais