Rhodes - Day 2

After a very deserved long nights sleep both Phil and I are up and doing at a reasonable hour. In fact I think we both did so well because we were in fact still drunk from the night before, but undeterred we headed up to the restaurant where breakfast was waiting. And boy, what a breakfast!

The morning service operated on a huge buffet where you could help yourself to whatever you wanted. Let me give you a rough idea of the variety:-

1. At least 6 different types of fresh bread to chose from
2. Copious amounts of cold cuts and fresh cheese, too many varieties to count
3. Sausages, bacon, beans, grilled tomatoes
4. Scrambled eggs, boiled eggs, omlettes, fried eggs to your order
5. Smoked fish
6. Freshly cooked waffles
7. 5 or 6 different types of pastries, including danish, croissants, pain au chocolate
8. Jams, preserves, spreads, honey
9. Fresh fruit including melon, pinapple, kiwi, orange, grapefruit, grapes, apple, banana
10. Greek yoghurt, 3 or 4 types of granola and museli
11. Cake! Yes, Cake in the morning!
12. Freshly squeezed juices
13. More types of tea and coffee and hot chocolate than you could shake a stick at

As you can imagine it was a safe assumption for me on viewing the breakfast warez that the diet was going out of the window this week and I was going to make the most of what was on offer. So I did. Several times :)

After breakfast we wandered down to the beach which in all honesty would have been quite a trek had the owners of the hotel not had the foresight to put a series of 4 lifts in to manoeuvre people from the top of the cliff into which our hotel was built down to the seaside. We meet up with Jen and Mark who look a little worse for wear and also with Phil's parents who flew in early this morning. I dipped my toes in the water, but it wasn't quite warm enough for me to entertain the idea of getting in and after a chat with the family Phil and I go back up the hillside to the hotel where we decide we should head into Lindos to have a poke around.

One expensive taxi ride later and we are deposited into the centre of Lindos. I thought it looked recognizable but couldn't quite recall if I'd ever been there before or not but I did feel a resounding sense of familiarity on seeing the big old tree that forms the roundabout in the village square. Ponding done we head on through the village where we get Gyros for lunch and then walk down to the beach, which is nice enough and dotted with a few tavernas. We get a drink and then get a phone call from Phil's parents stating they too are in Lindos and are just heading to go back to the hotel if we wanted to meet up so we decide to do that and walk back to the village centre narrowly avoiding getting ploughed down by mad donkey riding Greeks. We catch the bus back to the hotel and arrange to meet Phil's parents for dinner at their hotel in the evening which gives us just enough time to get showered and changed before heading along our local beach to meet Jim and Sylvia.

We have a nice enough meal and some after dinner drinks and then go back to our hotel on foot. I tell you something, fat chance of too much overindulgence this holiday if we continue to do this much exercise... good thing really considering the breakfast feast we've been commissioned to eat for the next week :)

Posted by Abi on the October 8, 2009 10:40 PM