Once more unto the beach

I have literally been waiting for the appropriate day to use that title since the beginning of our trip but I wanted it to be at the right time. And since today was quite the battle to get to said beach, I feel that today was that day. After the 5 island exertions of yesterday, and since apart from different beaches we have seen most of this island, we were in no hurry to get moving today. So a leisurely morning was had by the girls while Jess and I did a bit of Monday admin, aka work. Soon enough it was time for lunch so we sent Lily and Olivia off to the bakery to pick up a few things, Ruby had done an exemplary of cleaning up the mess in the kitchen from last night, while Allegra read her book and managed to avoid helping at all.
We ate lunch and it was time to get ready to go out. Everybody knew that our plan was to head to a beach, since activity options are very limited on this island, but it was only at this point that they started to take exception to this plan. Lily started to complain that Greece was boring, doing the same thing all the time, and we should have booked a multi-country holiday for variety. Ruby started complaining that she doesn’t like beaches, information that would have carried more weight if she had told us this when she was voting that we come to Greece this summer. Jess and I were getting frustrated with them and the twins were trying to remain calm, listening to music on their headphones, which also managed to upset Lily. I like to alternate at these times, from being a calm voice of reason, to being a wind up merchant poking whichever bear is at the point of most irritation. This probably does not help the situation, neither does the fact that this accommodation is on the small side and there is nowhere really that anyone can go to calm doctor have a bit of time to themselves. Anyway, after much animated discussion we were just about ready to leave for our beach day.
Jess wanted to go back to the one we were at on the first day, I said we should go to a different one, just for variety, the twins were not bothered at all, and Lily and Ruby still would have been happy if we had changed our mind and just stayed in. The end decision was that we would go to a different beach, although as it turns out we should have listened to Jess. The interesting thing is that no matter his much it seems like everyone is arguing before we leave, and no matter how much no one really wants to do a 30 minute walk in this heat, as soon as we start walking everyone’s mood changes completely and we start having a good time. Today was no exception and we had a fairly enjoyable walk to the beach. On the way we had quite the treat. We think that for the first time on this trip we saw a cloud in the sky. We stopped to take a photograph to commemorate the occasion. When we got there we had the whole beach to ourselves, although as I implied, it was not the greatest beach. I say this as a beach snob, the water was warm and clear and we were the only ones there. A few people did arrive as we lazed about, Jess walked the beach collecting rubbish, the twins were hanging in the water, Lily did sudoku, Ruby read a book and I loitered between the water and the beach. As it was nothing too special we decided it was time to head off, although at this suggestion Ruby told us how she was extremely content just where she was, it’s hard to keep up sometimes.
After walking home we went out for a nice cold mug of beer and an ice cream, both were extremely tasty. While sitting there I had to let everyone know that I couldn’t care less about any pointless arguments we all might have, I wouldn’t change a single thing about our time together because I just love it all. It may have been the ice cream talking but I don’t care, I stand by every word. A bit of light tourist shopping and another delicious dinner whipped up by Lily (I am getting quite used to these nights off) and that was pretty much it for the day.Read more