Rhodes to nowhere

Although today was moving day we didn’t have to rush too much as we had a late checkout. So we could wake up in a leisurely fashion and take our time with breakfast before needing to get on with packing and tidying everything up. So I took my time over breakfast while Jess got on with packing and tidying everything up. We were all organised and ready to in plenty of time and headed off to return our car, although we were slightly delayed by a traffic jam on the one track running through town. We got to the car place eventually and since we had time to kill they let us leave our bags in the shop so we didn’t have to lug them around town.
We weren’t sure what to do for a couple of hours but we did need to find a fridge magnet. This was quite easily accomplished, all the tourist shop sales people tried to entice us with deals but we decided to get one from a shop where the dude had almost no interest in customers at all. There really is not much worth doing in Kalymnos town and on our short search we had passed a mini oasis, very out of place on this island, and so we decided it would be a nice place to have a drink. We sat down and looked at the menu, eggs benedict was on offer as well as some vegan options so we decided it would be a nice place to have lunch. It was one of the best meals we have had on our travels in a lovely setting, it was most unexpected. We had time for a little bit of a stroll but before long we needed to grab our bags and go to our ferry.
After commenting the other day about ferries and their general punctuality, we were forced to wait for our boat which was again running late, by about 20 minutes or so. We stood around on the pier which didn’t have much in the way of shade, so were very happy when we saw the boat appear. We got some seats and settled in for our 3 hour trip. On the journey there were two stops at other islands, I don’t know why, just Kos. Well not just Kos, also Symi. The girls had downloaded some stuff to watch and Jess and I did a bit of reading as the boat zipped down the Turkish coastline, I never actually realised just how close it was.
Eventually we arrived in Rhodes, which is to be the final island on our trip, and on first impressions it couldn’t be more different from any of the other islands we have visited. For a start it was incredibly busy around the old town Rhodes, and also there was just a seemingly endless drive around the coast with a never ending strip of shops, restaurants and various other tourist ‘attractions’, none of which appealed to me in any way. We had almost an hour drive to our accommodation so we did finally emerge from that into what seemed more like the surroundings we like, and after a bit of back and forth after wrong turns we did make it to our villa. It seems like it will be a cool last stop, it even has a swimming pool that us at least twice as large as an average size bath.
It was getting on a bit so we wandered up to the village to find somewhere to eat and found a very nice spot in the square under some large trees. Over our dinner we talked about the history of the island and Jess made some references to the Colossus of Rhodes. I took a little offence as although I have been eating a lot and may have chunked up a bit on our trip I think to call me a colossus was a bit much. The dinner was extremely nice although we think we may have been slightly overcharged, hard to be sure though as the handwritten bill was all in Greek.
Back at our accommodation there was just time for some of us to have a little cool down in the pool and for us to see a shooting star before we were off to bed, all worn out from a day on the move.Leia mais