Today was a beach day and a shopping day. After a lazy morning and a gyro eaten on the walk, we took a tram ride to the beach where we alternately swam in the chilly water and baked in the hot sun. Another gyro served for dinner, and ice cream later on. We decided to buy some post cards of all the beautiful historic stuff we didn't go see. We also each bought a souvenir for ourselves and some for others.
- Ahhh, the beach. -
- Mom -
- and me -
Of all the places we've been so far, Greece has been the most relaxing, mostly just because we were worn out when we got here and decided not to stress ourselves. It is also the most devastatingly beautiful place I've seen so far. Italy has a certain charm, with a sprawling grandeur to the cities and a look about the villages as if they were set gently on hill tops by a careful hand. It is very gently cultivated and very very beautiful. Greece on the other hand has a stark, raw beauty to the island with it's craggy hills and mountains seen from the city and harbor, and it's ruins embraced with in the city, viewable from the dinner tables on Monastiraki street. I will be sad to leave here tomorrow, but with a nice sense of expectation as we move on to our last big stop.
Tomorrow, we start two straight days of travel. An relatively early train will take us back to Patras, where we'll catch the ferry back to Bari, arriving early the next morning. Then we catch another train up to Bologna where, in turn, we will catch yet another train which should take us over night to Paris.
So, hopefully I'll be able to post again before we actually get there, but time will tell.
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