After zis rude avakening, I got dressed and waited... Firstly for Anna to get up and have a shower, which she duly did and then for the kids to show some semblance of movement!
An hour later and still nothing.. So I knocked on their door for about 5 minutes (well it's seemed like 5 minutes - was probably a minute at best). Eventually, Holly appeared at the door looking like the bride of Frankenstein, hair everywhere and a complexion that a leper would balk at! So this is what teenagers look like before they've made themselves look presentable ;).. I exaggerate, she just looked sleepy.. (is that better Holly? Please don't kill me!). Apparently she reads this which probably doubles my audience.
Anyway, ripping on Holly aside (Reuben looked just as bad) we finally made it down to breakfast which was freakin' amazing! Most things the same as yesterday but with some small changes like bacon. I did my usual, had a continental, meat and cheese, followed by fried egg, mushrooms etc and then some Greek yoghurt and, this time honey! Absolutely amazing. A couple of coffees later we returned to our rooms and headed out across the road for a... coffee....
(Yay - a photo by Mat)
Oh... My... Goodness... That coffee was nóstimo! (hopefully Greek for delicious if not, I'm dead) I'll definitely be going back there tomorrow.
After this we skipped back to the room, caffeine you see, and packed up with a view to going to the beach!
We set off and walked down Hersonissos main street and over to the harbour. We had heard that there was a lovely beach over there but there must be a thing called subjectivity because we couldn't really see one.
(view of the harbour)
We carried on walking around a headland but alas just more of the beach bars and hotels. You clearly need to get well away from the towns to get to a large sandy beach.
We walked a little further and eventually the hotels gave way to smaller tavernas that had sections of good beach. We paid the €7.5 for a pair of sun loungers and parasol and I sat down with a 'post apocalyptical thriller - PAT' (still waiting for John Dolan's next offering - I'm sadly up to date! Shameless plug time but seriously, go onto Amazon and look for 'Everyone Burns by John Dolan and go from there! Beautifully written with some amazing dark humour and sublime character development) the PAT was slow going to start with but seems to be ramping up a bit now. Should be a good long read!
The kids and Anna all played in the sea and had an absolutely amazing time!
After a good 5 hours here we took a slow walk back to the hotel to shower and cool off before dinner.
Dinner was pork belly, chicken, fish and Mediterranean veggies in a lovely tomato sauce. Thoroughly delicious!
Completely satisfied, we retired to the sun loungers by the sea by the hotel and Reuben took a dusk swim!
Anna has just showed up with some water and a good old cup of tea so I'm going to sign off now! Καληνυχτα!
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