Tipsi in Lipsi

Nothing much to report from the morning, just that Olivia had a Korean lesson so while she was doing that I did a bit of work and everyone else watched some Hamilton, much to Ruby’s delight. I had to pop out to the shop to get a few things for lunch, I managed to find some pastries we hadn’t tried before so that was a success. We had some lunch and then Lily watched a bit of F1 and then we were ready to start discussing the day and getting ready to go out.
As I mentioned yesterday, this is a very small island so the options of what to are either visit a church, which would take about 5 minutes, or go to a beach we hitch will take at least a couple of hours. The beach it was. Of course when going to a beach it is most important to get your blush and eye makeup just right, so everyone very patiently waited while I got this sorted out. The beach is a little walk from our accommodation, 30 minutes or so, which given it was a hot day we weren’t looking forward to, but we loaded up with water and set off. There was a bit of a breeze and even though it was a warm wind it definitely made it a bit easier as the sun was very hot.
We got to the beach, which was fairly large and also reasonably empty so we walked around a bit and found a spot with a little cave to provide some shade and we proceeded to cool off in the water, spending a little time searching for some urchins like we were living in London in the time of Charles Dickens. Ever since Tate was attacked last year she has been a little concerned that it may happen again. It was just a nice chill time, apart from when Lily and Jess had a bit of an argument about something, I can’t remember what. I did a bit of snorkelling and then spent some time skimming stones. This is very relaxing, it is all in the wrists. It turns out that there is only one thing I enjoy more than skimming stones and that is having people be impressed by my impressive ability to skim stones, and Tate was more than happy to oblige.
After a while we had had enough and so we packed up and headed for home. We dropped off our stuff and then we headed back out as a bit of liquid hydration was required. We walked around and checked out all the local establishments, while passing one the owner tried to entice us in by offering me a job, I said I would work for beer. It wasn’t the right place though as it was a restaurant and we were just after a drink. We found somewhere we could have a nice cold beer and/or a smoothie and it was very refreshing. While sitting there we discussed dinner plans for the evening. We didn’t really have much idea, and the beer was tasting good so we decided that instead of going home we would just head straight out for some food. We obviously went back to the place the owner had tried to entice us into, it was so early we were the only people there. The owner promised me a free beer or ouzo and I was only too happy with this arrangement. We ordered food, too much as always, but I took one for the team and made sure to polish it all off. The beers continued tasting good. When we asked for the bill the owner made good on his promise and brought out an ouzo which I very graciously accepted and polished off. When he gave me his card though I felt that was a step too far.
After all that food it was all I could do to fit in two or three biscuits as I wrote today’s edition and watched the girls doing a random dance in the living room.Read more