Day 37

Today was beach day! Ok, so it was overcast with the chance of rain, but considering how warm it is, who cares! Sandra found this beach called Asteria, which has a floating trampoline in the water. Awesome!

We took the trains and trams out to the beach and got off at the stop we thought it was at. No Asteria. We asked one of the locals for some help and he kindly told us that it was at the end of the road, about 5 minutes away. About 15 minutes later and passing two more tram stops, we came across it.

The website said that we need to pay to get in, but it seemed worth it (trampoline!). When we got there, it took a bit to find the entrance. When we did, the guy at the ticket area said 'go in'. Ah, ok! Considering it was the morning of a working day, there was no one there. So we got to use this beach pretty much privately.

Now, having inflatable things in the water sounds more fun than it is. Especially when there are only two of you. The tramploline was cool, but after a few bounces, it got pretty old quickly. This is mainly because the whole idea of a trampoline in the water is so that you can bounce high and dive into the water, right? Well that wasn't going to happen as the water around it wasn't deep enough. So it just became a regular trampoline... In the water. It was pretty funny trying to get onto the damn thing though. They also had an inflatable see-saw thingy that was also amusing for about 5 minutes.

After a bit of splashin' around, we chilled on the beach for a while. An old couple and a woman with a kid came to the beach as well. So with these unmanageable crowds, we decided to leave.

On the way back, we found another place that sold pita gyros for only 1.30 Euros! Win! Love this stuff. We followed it up with a 1.70 Euro icecream and that was lunch done for another day.

We came back to the hotel and bummed out. We caught up on some blogs (yes, more blogging) and waited for the folks to come back from their day out. They had gone on a coach tour of the coast to the Temple of Poseidon.

We went out to a little restaurant just opposite the hotel. Dinner was good - I had a nice Italian dish for my last night in Greece. The restaurant guy was awesome. We gave him a good tip. As always, the wandering sales men were out. Our count tonight was 6.

While we ate there were a whole bunch of people going into this building next door. It looked like a Russian communist themed night club called the KKE with a hammer and cycle. We thought nightclub because most of the poeple going in were young. We asked the restaurant guy and he said it was the communist party of Greece. Ok, maybe not the most popular night club then...

We then went to the hotel room to finish packing and blogging. Normally I don't write the blog for a day until at least the next day (as you don't know what's going to happen until it's over). But today we've had to finish this blog as it stands because we aren't sure what the internet will be like in Egypt. Hopefully there will be some, otherwise we won't get to upload blogs until Japan (about 12 days away).

It's weird writing about the day you've had on the day itself. It's like whenever you do something, it appears on the screen. Right now I'm typing. Holy crap, it now says that on the screen. ARGHHH.....