out and about

I've always enjoyed driving abroad and have found Rhodes really easy to get around -touch wood! However it was time for Mrs H to get her Greek driving wings and she's taken to it straight away, nipping about in our trusty hire car.

Having shipped our bikes out with us, after a spot of rebuilding it was soon time to hit the old coastal road on our route to Glystra beach. We've made it half way so far so more practice is needed before we can jump off the bikes and into the sea and don't get overtaken by the land train!

With the arrival of our friends Mark & Marie; we started our "holiday" and with so much to see and do we decided on a trip to Rhodes Town.  The weather was overcast so it was perfect for a trip out in the car.  The Old Town was busy and it was nice to have a coffee and people watch.

The ladies moved onto the shops in the centre and we triumphantly came away with our prized purchase of a paddle for the wood oven.  Its the little things in life....

On arrival home we noticed our neighbour who is a local fisherman had his boat out of the sea and in his back garden.  Mrs H enquired as to the reason.  She was advised to bring our sunbeds in from the umbrellas as they could be taken out to sea with the storm that was going to be approaching,  With sunbeds duly moved we settled for a night in our outside kitchen, taking some spectacular photos of the night sky.

We awoke to winds of between 55-70 km per hour.  Our wise neighbour was bang on about the sunbeds and Mrs H decided to take a video of the crashing waves.

With the return of hotter weather and Marie's birthday, it didn't take us long to get back to a little sightseeing and sunbathing; and although the sea is still a touch on the cool side we embarked upon our first snorkeling experience using our breathe easy snorkels.  Again another first and another great success.