Here’s me outside the hotel using Sam’s laptop, trying to complete hellish paperwork having to do with recent sad events… I do look reasonably upbeat tho!It began to rain so I had to move inside; there across the street is where I just was, on the computer, and that’s my fav bar guy clearing up… Sam told him what happened to my mom and he’s been super nice to usDinner was awesome! We started outside but the combo of rain and the really loud boisterous cheers of fans chanting their team fight song convinced us to move indoors.Meals like this always have me questioning why I don’t eat more fish in the states, and then I remember: restaurant fish is usually crap in the US 😀
After dinner we ordered the delicious-sounding raspberry tarte for dessert!!
So yeah…. it turned out to be a painfully modern “deconstructed” tarte: the pastry is the pile of crumbs, the middle isn’t fruit at all but sorbet, and the top is just sprayed-on marshmallow cream toasted with a flame-thrower. But I give them an A for effort, and honestly a B for execution—it was really good!—but it didn’t match what was advertised IMHO so demerits for that 😀Some things though are always true to their word 😀OK it’s time to hit the road—er, sea. I took screenshots of our ferry tickets, cause ya know, nothing in Europe is ever as simple as it seems. Our “gate” is E8, which seems pretty obvious, like a gate at an airport! Turns out when we got there, “E8” refers to at least a quarter-mile stretch of continuous docks, all the ship names are in Greek, and it’s pouring down rain and it took forever to track down our ship!
The day did not begin very auspiciously… we were up all night worried about missing our early wake-up alarms and then having to pack, having to find a taxi and try to explain where we thought we wanted to go, etc., etc. And naturally it was absolutely pouring when it was time to get out of the taxi, and the Athens port was confusing as hell.
Maybe this is finally us? No one is really admitting to anything….Turns out this was us, and once we got on board, we found that the ferries are actually pretty snazzyMe on board, looking slightly like Maynard from Tool 😀A confusing stop that wasn’t mentioned on our tickets, but we were lucky and decided not to mistakenly get off here haha
We finally landed in Spetses and just like that the rain vanished, the sun sprung up like in Teletubbies, and we knew we weren’t in Kansas any more. The Greek islands are so incredibly wonderful!!!
Typical Spetses sceneWe walked from the dock to our hotel… Sam seems pleased with it!The pool is pretty darn niceThis is literally just outside the doors of our hotelThis is the view from dinner at our hotelAnd this is the view of dinner!Had a really nice wine hereHalf of my head enjoying dinner 😀More view….And more view….Heading back to our rooms finallyIt’s kinda insane here photographically speaking so steel yourself for more pics of the same thing over and over again tomorrow!
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