Actually a better title for this would be 'seeking shade' for a start it would be accurate!
I ended up waking at 7am again, it is honestly like I have some built-in alarm. I looked out of the window and remarked for the fifth day in a row "crikey! It's sunny!" another glorious day with not a cloud in the sky.
I believe that I have finally mastered the shower! You just have to turn the water on to about half pressure and wait for about 30 seconds. Bliss!
After Anna and I had showered, separately (we are social distancing), I waited to see if there was any signs of life from the kids' room.. Not to smegging peep! This Greek air is really making them sleep in. Or maybe it could be the 11pm bed times...
Anyway, suffice it to say, I had to knock on their door for about a minute until they made a bleary-eyed appearance.
We got ready and went down to breakfast which was, as usual, nostimó!
After breakfast, we decided to not break with tradition and go for a coffee across the road it was just as delicious as ever! Thank goodness some things never change!
While I was finishing my espresso, Anna went to book a parasailing excursion for the kids. While trying to make herself understood because of the GCD - government control device (mask) the lady serving her said to "take off your mask, there is perspex between us! 666 used to be the bad number.. Now its 2020" I thought that was quite telling from someone who works in the tourist industry! Quite how they are staying afloat in this 'fear porn' climate is beyond me!
After booking the trip, which includes transfers to the area, we went back to the hotel room to read until it was time to walk the 100m to the bus stop for the Rural Crete Experience trip.
Wow! Totally wow! They totally undersold this! It was 5 hours of non stop fun and sightseeing... Actually I'm lying, it wasn't non stop! We stopped three or four times.
The first stop was a monastery right up on a mountain with some spectacular views of the valley
And of the actual monastery
The second stop was an olive oil producer which was absolutely fascinating. Straight after the olive oil producer, we went on a tour of an incredibly old town that was dying out but refused to succumb to commercialisation.
This was absolutely stunning. It used to be, earlier in the 20th century, a real centre of commerce and produced many different goods ranging from cigarettes to cartwheels! Apparently the population is now 150, mostly old who get visited in the holidays by their younger relatives.
After this we pressed on and stopped off at a taverna. I had a local beer, Anna and Holly had an ice-cream and Reuben had a crepe... It was freakin' massive! There was possibly some food envy occurring..
On the way back, we stopped off to take some photos of a dam than was completed in 2012.. The resultant lake / reservoir is 3km long, 55m deep at its deepest part and typically holds 30 million litres of water.
If you look closely, you can see part of the village that was submerged (in winter, only the roofs are visible)
When we got dropped off after the tour, we went back to the hotel, showered and had dinner.
We then went out to the beach where the kids had a night swim while I sat on the beach and wrote this whilst drinking some local wine, it's a bit sweet for my liking but delicious nonetheless (no idou huv srtang ti is! Hic.)
Right-oh! Reading time and mroe wnie!
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