Armenistis Day

In an unprecedented development I didn’t wake up until 10 o’clock feeling very refreshed. I bounced out of bed and made my way to the coffee machine, I decided to switch to the filter today to keep things nice and simple. A little bit of work was done while the girls watched F1. We gave them fair warning about a departure time but our efficiency is slightly lacking when we don’t have a hard, set deadline. But we managed to get on the road, our plan was to head for a beach, surprise, surprise.
Driving on this island is not a hugely enjoyable experience for a few reasons. The roads are very windy, quite narrow and not in the best condition and when going through a village the parked cars and buildings make it even narrower. The car we have is quite wide, the bonnet is quite high and when the aircon is on full as required the power level is low. So at almost no time does it even get up to 50kms and it takes a long time to get anywhere.
So today it took us a long time to get to Nas beach, which we viewed from high up the hill and it truly looked like a very cool place to swim and chill for a bit. We had however made a rookie mistake and arrived at our destination at lunchtime without any lunch and as much as we all wanted a swim there was no way we were walking down a hill and back up without food and so an executive decision was made to go and get food first and then go to a beach. So it was back to the car and a bit of a backtrack on our journey to a pie/pastry shop where we stocked up and then got back in the car and drove to one of the beaches we had seen in our way, Armenistis beach. It was hot and when we got to a spot on the sand all I wanted to do was jump in the water but before I could we needed to get our beach umbrellas set up for shade. This mostly something Jess takes care of but it would have been rude if I had just run off into the sea and left her to it. There was a little bit of wind and the umbrellas are pretty crap so there were a couple of elements not in our favour, but in not much time at all she had fabricated a little shady spot that somehow managed to survive the whole time we were there. Finally we could get in the water and cool off although not for long at first because there were a couple of tasty pastries with my name on them. But after they were polished off there was time to cool off properly, Jess set off for a bit of a swim and I went to do a bit of snorkelling. There were not many fish to see and not much variety either so it was not so much fun. After a while of being at the beach someone declared it to be an ice cream day so we packed up and found a place to get one, very tasty it was. Then a supermarket for essentials and head for home.
Once again Lily volunteered to make our dinner and once again she whipped us up a treat. I don’t want her to get a big head, but it can be quite difficult to whip up something tasty for six fussy buggers with very little to work with but the flavour she conjured up with half a lemon and some oregano was extremely tasty and really hit the spot.Leggi altro