- Greek Odyssey 2021: Retrospective
- Day 73: Homeward Bound
- Day 72: Our Last Full Day
- Day 71: More Sifnos Sightseeing
- Day 70: Exploring Sifnos by Car
- Day 69: Sun, Sand and Sea on Sifnos
- Day 68: Bus Trip to Apollonia
- Day 67: Mum and Dad’s First Full Day on Sifnos
- Day 66: Mum and Dad Arrive on Sifnos
- Day 65: Sifnos Sunshine
- Day 64: More Clouds Over Sifnos
- Day 63: Sifnos Cloudy First Day
- Day 62: Sikinos to Sifnos
- Day 61: Sikinos Sightseeing
- Day 60: Relaxing on Sikinos
- Day 59: Ios to Sikinos
- Day 58: Ios Last Full Day
- Day 57: Ios Psathi Beach and Palaiokastro
- Day 56: Ios Chill Day
- Day 55: Ios Agia Theodoti Beach
- Day 54: Exploring South Ios Magganari Beach
- Day 53: Naxos to Ios
- Day 52: Exploring Naxos by Car
- Days 50-51: Agia Anna
- Day 49: Relaxing in Agia Anna / Plaka Beach
- Day 48: Amorgos to Naxos
- Day 47: Kos to Amorgos
- Day 46: Kos Final Full Day
- Day 45: Last Gym Session on Kos
- Day 44: Moving Hotel Room Part 2
- Day 43: Moving Hotel Room
- Day 42: Visiting Tigaki
- Days 38-41: Living Life in Kos Town
- Day 37: Back to Kos Town
- Days 34-36: Nothing But The Pool
- Day 33: Ed Departs, I Remain
- Day 32: Road Trip (with Ed!)
- Day 31: Boat Trip with Ed
- Day 30: Ed Arrives on Kos
- Day 29: Why I’m Still on Kos
- Day 28: Kos Town Hotel Move
- Day 27: Kos Beach Day Again
- Day 26: Kos Car Hire
- Day 25: Kos Town Beach Day
- Day 24: Cutting Tilos Short
- Day 23: Rhodes to Tilos
- Day 22: Rhodes Town Beach
- Day 21: Exploring Rhodes Town
- Day 20: Rhodes Arrival
- Day 19: Exploring Karpathos by Car
- Day 18: Ammopi Beach by Bus
- Day 17: Karpathos Beach Day…Again
- Day 16: Karpathos Beach Day
- Day 15: Karpathos Arrival
- Day 13: Gortyn, Heraklion and Sitia
- Day 12: Phaistos and Matala
- Day 11: Preveli and Agia Galini
- Day 10: Road Trip Across Crete
- Day 9: Last Day in Palaiochora
- Day 8: Last Time at Grammeno Beach
- Day 7: Elafonissi Beach
- Day 6: Finally the Wind Dies Down
- Day 5: Grammeno Beach Again
- Day 4: Frangokastello, Hora Sfakion and Chania
- Day 3: Palaiochora Morning Exercise
- Day 2: Palaiochora and Grammeno Beach
- Day 1: Crete Arrival
- Touring Greece Without a Plan
- An Exciting Journey Begins
Thursday 22nd July 2021
Déjà Vu
I’m afraid to say that today’s update is going to sound an awful lot like yesterday! I didn’t yet have the urge to explore outside my resort and so I ended up back on the beach for another day of sunbathing.
Before dinner, I spoke to reception and extended my booking for an extra night (to 5 nights instead of 4). My original plan had been to move on to Chalki on Saturday, and from there to Tilos, thereby circumventing the larger, tourist-heavy island of Rhodes. However, the Chalki ferry leaves very late on Saturday evening and doesn’t arrive until the early hours of Sunday morning, meaning I would be without a room most of the afternoon/evening and paying for a room on Chalki that I would only get to use for a few hour’s sleep. Combined with the fact that I wasn’t desperate to see Chalki, I opted to visit Rhodes instead and will be heading there on Sunday morning.
Making Plans
Realising I needed to make plans to explore the island, I visited a car rental shop (Billy’s just opposite the mini-market near the bus station) and reserved a small car for one day for Saturday 24th July. It cost €50 which seemed a little steep, but I had asked for prices at a couple of other places and they were all around the same amount. I also decided that I would take a bus tomorrow and explore a different resort, so at least my next update should be more exciting than today!
Dinner
Having had a large club sandwich down at the beach earlier, I wasn’t massively hungry at dinner time but decided to find a taverna anyway just to give me something to do for the evening. I ended up at Ellenikon, not far past Acropolis where I had eaten the day before. Instead of ordering a light dish, I ended up choosing the chicken schnitzel parmesan which turned out to be a massive portion of spaghetti with a large chicken breast on top. Despite my best effort, I could only finish half of it and left feeling rather guilty at wasting so much food.
To alleviate my guilt, I walked down to the cocktail bar from my first night and had another Mai Tai, then sat for a while people watching as the sun went down.
