Rhodes - Day 5

With all the activity of the last two days, and the onset of it being a Sunday and therefore not much open we decide that today will be a day of rest with little planned to do or places to go.

We have a nice leisurely breakfast after which we head down to one of the hotels pools where we read and rest on the sun loungers doing not a lot of anything. Phil is brave enough to get in the pool and whilst it looks like he's having a wonderful time in there he wasn't in for long as it was quite nippy!

With lunchtime not long approaching Phil then decides he has earn't himself an afternoon nap and so whilst he snoozes away the afternoon I head out to keep myself a bit busier.

I had two missions to complete whilst I was out. The first was to figure out how long it would take and exactly how we got to St. Paul's Bay for the wedding tomorrow. Luckily it didn't take me long to locate the venue and so I parked up and wandered down to the beach to a small beach bar where they were serving light snacks and the like. So I ordered some lunch, had a drink and read some of my book whilst enjoying reggae music and the sun.

I then thought I'd best be heading off, but whilst walking back to the car I reflected on what I was leaving behind and decided to stay a while longer and parked myself on a sun lounger and read some of my book whilst taking in the wonderful surroundings of St. Pauls Bay. It is atypically greek, turquoise water, sandy beach all enclosed within a small bay protected from the elements by tall vulcanised rock columns guarding the shallow waters from the ravages of the Aegean sea. Spectacular.

I just about finished my book and realised the time so I left my cosy spot and went back to the car where I set about completing my second mission, which was to purchase a bottle of 5* metaxa for the celebrations tomorrow. I did this no problem and goodies in hand I went back to the hotel to disturb Phil until he got up to get ready to go out for the family meal that had been arranged.

When we were ready we then made our way to Lindos again and to the Mythos rooftop restaurant where we were well fed to say the least with great food. I had spaghetti since I was feeling the need for a carb overload and Phil had giant prawns which when he was confronted with gave him a slightly terrified look as he wasn't quite sure what the hell to do with them. Obligingly I deheaded and detailed them for him and soon he was tucking in.

After the mean we went to the crepe place again and chowed down on dessert and then climbed back up the hill out of lindos to where the car was parked so we could make our way home to the hotel.

All in all a relaxing day, probably needed too considering the events of tomorrow.

Posted by Abi on the October 11, 2009 9:34 PM