Athens

Friday 26th August

We were up by about 9 and found that our balcony had lovely sunshine. We sat there for a while before breakfast. We did not want to go into Athens as we had both seen it before and were rather tired. Instead we put on sunscreen and swimming costumes and went out to the pool area where we were able to find a couple of sun beds. We lay in the sun and went in the pool when we were too hot.

Of course in the afternoon we had to visit Café al Bacio just for me. The cakes there were as delicious as always and the hot chocolate was lovely.

We relaxed and could not get ourselves motivated to get ready for dinner. We were quite late. Once again we shared a table, as we would have had to wait for some time for a table for 2. We sat with a Greek- and Cypriot-Australian couple (to whom we later gave our complimentary bottle of Merlot) and a Welsh woman.

There was no opportunity for dancing when we were around. In the evening there was a rock and roll trivia evening but that bored us so we did not stay to see if there was any decent dancing afterwards. Instead we sat on our balcony enjoying the stars and the sound of the sea.

We planned to watch a film on TV (or read if I didn’t like whatever David chose). David was in bed all ready and I had only just taken off my jewellery and was in the bathroom taking off makeup when suddenly the lights went out. I checked in our room and then walked towards the front door and walked straight into the open bathroom door. Ouch! There were lights on in the passage. I found my wind-up torch and phoned Reception. They sent up someone who told us that 2 or 3 other rooms had the same problem so an electrician would be called. I got undressed and took all my medicines by the light of a frequently-wound torch. David had gone to sleep in the dark so I took half a sleeping tablet and tried to sleep too. I was still awake nearly 2 hours later. I kept expecting the lights to come on and wake me up. Also, David was snoring and did not respond to any of my kicks or prods. Eventually he woke up and stopped snoring. In the morning he could not remember me suggesting to him that he sleep on his side instead of his back. The change of sleeping position certainly worked and eventually I slept.