Today we needed to purchase the groceries that we will need for tomorrow because it's Sunday and most businesses are closed. This is true whether it's a grocery store or a restaurant or a tire shop. Makes planning ahead important.
We went in search of a grocery store and filled our cart with Greek salad ingredients, water and snacks. We had picked out a beach to spend the day at and we were so focused on finding it we passed right by the grocery store without acknowledging it was there. When we reached the beach ( the only sand beach for many miles) it was a repeat of the experience Carrie, Annelle and I had in Chalkadiki. Body, to body...to body! Not our idea of fun so we decided to move on to another beach but went in search of the supermarket first. Having missed seeing the market we were in search of we drove 20 minutes out of our way saying "I thought it was right here..." to each other.
We finally decided to turn around when we reached a town that we passed through a few days before and rejected the idea of a return visit because it was too far away. We stopped to take a few photos and the minute I stepped out of the car an elderly gentleman called out to me from across the street "Sprechen Sie Deutsch?" I gave him my standard "ein bissen" and suddenly we were having a conversation about where I learned German, his university studies in Germany, and no.. I am not from Holland. I have really got to learn more German vocabulary because no matter what country I go to people want me to speak German.
After our photo stop we found the grocery and took care of that errand and we found a different beach than the one we were headed for. What a stroke of luck because even though it was a stone beach (and who doesn't prefer sand??) it was a double cove and had gorgeous rock formations and a tunnel under one of the rocks that I swam through, and rocks that I jumped off. It was beautiful scenery and fun on top of it! It was great to have a lazy day without the need to climb some mountain too.
We ate dinner outside at our little table and fought off an unprecedented number of bees but it was so pleasant to sit next to the grapevines loaded with green and purple ripening grapes while eating a Greek salad in Greece!
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