Wednesday, June 4, 2008

I take it back

OK, so the Greeks are friendly afterall. It just seems that the people in this area (Peloponese) take a bit to warm up to you.

Day Two was a very short ride of only 26km, but that was just fine as we were still pretty exhausted from cycling out of Athens yesterday. After a long picnic under the shade of an olive tree in the square of a little village, we decended a steep windy road to a tavern on the beach. My first swim in the Agean since 1992! And Alix's first ever. We lazed around, had a couple of cold frape coffees, swam and snorkelled and had a big lunch of calamari, Greek salad, fries and bread. In all that I managed to chat up some people and they proved friendly afterall. Add a couple of big bottles of water and the propietors only charged us 20 Euros for all that (he gave us a discount). Tonight we are spending the night in our tent in the tavern by the seaside.

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