Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Adio islands!

Today went by really quickly; our best guess is because it was our last island day before heading back to Athens (which means we're nearing the end of our holiday).

We started the day with breakfast - as usual there was lots to choose from and so we filled our bellies easily. We then prepared to go to one of the unique beaches on the island. We had a hard deciding which one to go to as they all sounded neat. We opted to go to the beach in "Perissa" as it had black sand! 

The bus ride to the beach took about an hour; although it was long, we got to see more of the island and some small towns. I told Jeff it was a cheap tour, lol. 

The sand and pebbles/rocks at Perissa beach were dark due to the volcanic nature of the area. Neither of us had ever seen a black beach before and it was really something!! Leading into the water the ground turned from sand to pebbled and the coloured pebbles really stood out against the black ones. We rented a couple of beach chairs and umbrella at a restaurant and spent the day there. We read our books quietly and occasionally went swimming to cool down.  Jeff said there were fish that were biting his feet when he set them down - he said it felt like last night's fish spa adventure. It kind of creeped me out (I mean, last night was in a controlled space, free ocean is freaky) so I got out promptly after ensuring my feet didn't touch the ground. I'm about done with sun bathing this vaction - too hot - so I found comfort in the shade for the day. We ordered lunch on the beach and around 4:30pm we grabbed the bus to head back to our hotel. This time it only took 20 minutes; must've been an express bus or something.

We stopped for a bubble tea and an iced coffee (very popular here) on our walk to our hotel. 

Side note - the driving here is crazy! Stop signs are only suggestions, buses can fit into nearly any tight space, and apparently a road appearing for one way traffic can fit both. Not everyone wears helmuts on motorcycles and honking is the fastest way to communicate all sorts of things. I forgot to mention yesterday that we witnessed our bus driver throw eggs onto parked car windshields to (presumably) show his annoyance that they were parked where they shouldn't have been, making his driving the big bus harder. It was pretty funny. I wonder what the car drivers would have thought to return to egg that had cooked on their windshield in the heat!

We stopped at a little restaurant (a "taverna") for dinner; nothing fancy. We both got pasta plates. I wasn't feeling Greek tonight, so Italian it was! It was good, if not rather simple. Jeff grabbed a gyro on the walk back to the hotel for some meat.

I've had more compliments on my Greek accent today. I'm slowly learning more words and have impressed some locals. I think they enjoy helping me.

It's nearly 8:30pm and we're back in our hotel room. We've got to pack our bags as we have to be up and ready for the bus to the airport for 5am - urgh! 

It'll be an early night so we can be up and going around 4:30am - only 8 hours from now. Ewww.

Next you hear from me will be when we're back on the mainland.

Have a good afternoon!

Amanda xo

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