The Rhodes less travelled

It’s nice to have a place with a pool, even a small one, as it makes it easy to cool off at any time and it is just easy to relax around. So a lazy Sunday morning involved not too much, a couple of cooling dips for me, Jess prefers to swim and used the filter current like a swim machine and got her exercise that way.
We didn’t have huge plans for today, we were under strict instructions from Lily that she would be watching the Grand Prix today so we had to be home for that. That suited everyone as we didn’t have the energy to do too much more. There is an archaeological site called ancient Kamiros that is not too far from here, and Ruby has been very keen to see some old ruins and so we decided that would be our outing for the day.
First things first though and we had to get some stuff for lunch, we thought that pastries had never let us down so far so all we needed to do was find a bakery. We found a little town with three, but it seems like today was not our lucky day as our regular choices were not available, stocks were low as it was too close to closing time. We managed to get a handful of cheese puffs and a bread roll with raisins, it was not going to be a gourmet lunch.
Then we drove to ancient Kamiros and had a wander around the ruins. Ruby was very interested but the other three weren’t so much, they just hurried around from shady seat to shady seat. We strolled around, it really is quite amazing to try and imagine the ingenuity with which little difficulties were dealt with. It was certainly in a lovely location, with a view of Symi island in the distance and the mountains in the background. There were also some very impressive trees, and although these would not have been around way back when, I gave one a hug anyway.
We then had to find a supermarket to get some supplies, the girls were very happy to find Weetabix. Once that was all taken care of we got home in time to have a cooling swim before the F1 race started then Lily, Ruby and I watched that while Jess did a bit of work and the twins lay in the sun. After the race Jess tried to swim some more but got very sad when the timer of the filter turned off and she had to resort to swimming laps in a very short pool.
A couple of rounds of UNO were played, it should be quite a simple game but there was a bit of a disagreement over the rules. We didn’t know whether we should play by Welsh, English, Australian or French rules, or the rules Lily plays with her friends which is a bit like a local dialect. I am not sure if we ever resolved that and we just played some hybrid version, I won one game so I was reasonably happy.
Dinner was conjured up, a team effort tonight by me and Jess which meant we both got the blame for whatever part of it the girls didn’t like, onions for Ruby, courgettes for Allegra, the fact we’ve had too much pasta salad for Lily. No problems for Tate though, she had seconds, so obviously she was the favourite tonight. Despite having a fairly relaxing day we are all quite weary so it will be early to bed tonight.Lue lisää