Ain’t no valley low enough

Our last full day on holiday today and since we have been pretty busy since we have been in Rhodes we decided that we weren’t going to get up to too much. This was music to Tate’s ears and she took this to mean that she could sleep until the afternoon. The rest of us were up reasonably early, I was doing some work in between jumping into the pool to cool off, Jess was also doing a bit of work and the other three girls were sort of milling about. Unusually for our family, everyone was waiting around for me to finish work before we could head out, normally we are waiting for Jess. But eventually I got what I needed to do done and we could head off.
As I said, not too much was going on today, we were heading for place called butterfly valley. The name is very descriptive and gives an accurate description of what we could expect. Once we arrived we needed to have a bit of food before carrying on and we grabbed a bit of a snack to keep us going. Tate had a bit of a sore tummy but managed to polish off a cheeseburger, the rest of us had slightly smaller meals but equally tasty. Then we wandered off to the valley which I think must be quite a unique place on the island. For a start there was a small stream/river running through and while I have seen plenty of dry river beds on our trip, there has not been much inland water. It was a very calm walk up and back to see the Jersey Tiger Moth butterfly in a natural habitat. It turns out that they spend 4 months a year in the valley which they use as a breeding ground, so essentially they come to Rhodes every summer for sex. We saw plenty of butterflies and there were two of my favourite things in the valley, awesome trees and waterfalls. And I got to walk through it with my five favourite people. It was a cool way to spend our last day. We had a fairly standard ice cream to wrap up the day out.
Back at home it was time for some cooling off in the pool and some general relaxing, although for Jess this meant about 40 minutes swimming in the pool. We had to decide on a last meal out, was it to be a drive down to the beachfront or a stroll to the village? The local village won out and we are pretty happy it did.
The location was the same as last time, under the ficus tree, although we went with a different taverna, again a decision we were fairly happy with. We were all fairly unanimous that the food was some of the best we have had across our two trips to Greece. The meals were so good that we decided to go for a dessert, and the moans of appreciation for the orange pie were a good indication of the appreciation we felt. It was just a lovely meal in a beautiful setting and we were all feeling pretty relaxed. When paying the bill I was chatting with the owner and complementing the food and he told me it was all made by his mother and sister and they offered us cooking lessons if we come back next year. We may well take them up on their offer.
A last round of beer and biscuits, everyone’s favourite game, and a bit of reminiscing on the best bits of our holiday while writing vlogs and feeling bloated. An early start tomorrow, not for a good reason, so I will probably have to leave it there.もっと詳しく