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Sunbathing on a Greek Island
Sun, sea, sand and sunbathing, nothing could be more idylic and relaxing. Could it?
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An extract from the author’s “Diary from a Greek Island“
On that particular day, we drove down the west coast through Agios Nikitos, and descended to Kathisma, where a lovely long stretch of sand greeted us.
We’d heard that if you walked on past this beach there was a quieter alternative beach further along – there was, and without a soul on it – but the beautiful almost white sand was so soft underfoot that it became a somewhat sweaty ‘never again’ treck.
The heat on the beach,as we laid out our towels, was overwhelming and we had nothing with us to provide shade.
We had decided to head down to the only shade, a rock at the far end of the beach, when we saw a family come onto the beach, talking in German to each other and pointing at the rock…….the race was on!
We grabbed our things off the sand and set off at a swift, ‘trying to appear nonchalant’ walking pace- we could hear them crunching on the sand behind us.
When we had almost reached the rock – which formed a small sheltered cave – their teenage daughter sprinted past us into the rocks and cockily started dancing about and looking smug.
We got there, totally ignored her and spread our towel and bags out, knowing that we had won!
Looking gutted, she sulked back to her family who set themselves down to bake on the beach.
When we looked inside the rock we found a bonus. Somebody had left behind an old beach umbrella which we immediately put up.
The pleasure of victory was short lived however.
We were attacked by horseflies with bayonets fixed!
We thrashed about. We hit ourselves and each other. We danced up and down – but they had decided that the rocks were their territory and that British Beef was on the menu. We didn’t stand a chance.
They won.
We upped and went back along the beach with our rusty umbrella, as far away from that rock as we could – giving our won ground back to the enemy .
Let them get eaten!
Taken from Diary from a Greek Island
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High Jinks on the High Seas
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Thanks for this write-up. Enjoy reading it!
Enjoyable
That was a relaxing read!
Sounds like quite an adventure!
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
Makes me wish I were a traveler.Beautiful story and pictures.
Beautiful article C very informative and interesting
The race does not always go to the swift but to the most knowledgeable? Fun article.
Great, fun article, CJ.
So do we make a new saying? “You can hove your beach and be eaten too?”
Fun piece!
Thanks,
Clay
Sounds like an exciting adventure
Lovely vacation
. Personally, some of the best memories from vacations are from the things we had to overcome. Good story!
Oh I need a vacation like this. Looks wonderful.
Victory isn’t always sweet, is it? Great story, thank you for sharing!
A lovely memory, thanks for sharing, LOL
Great read.
Fun in the Sun! Nice one!
that was a great vacation. It’s a relief to see a very splendid water form like that.
Great article, nice read
Thanks for sharing!
I can not understand why such suffering sometimes for a place under the sun
be a traveler and not a tourist!
Believe me horseflies do not only like British Beef! Excellent read My Friend for such a lovely place.
Take care,
François
takes me back to The Big Island, Hawaii, and camping near signs warning us to watch out for falling coconuts.
a very impressive piece…