You know you have been travelling for quite a while when
you have “a typical day” For some reason even if we have been on a number of
two weeks trips before…this one almost seems like we live here.
My typical day here is to get up around 7:30am and wake
up slowly for about 45 mins to an hour (sometimes earlier if an early port).
Then it is to get dressed and go and eat
baked beans, bagel and jam, oranges and a little chocolate croissant and
a glass of applejuice on the terrace together. Then come back to the room and
pack knapsacks for the day. Go and explore ruins, towns, archeological sites,
visit a beach, visit churches (the ones that don’t kick beauty out because of
her tank tops and shorts), climb a few bell towers, do some shopping.
During those days always stop for a nice ethnic lunch, an
afternoon coffee and dessert and usually a gelato somewhere along the way for
Beauty and sometimes me. Usually buy some kind of sweater, shirt or souvenir
somewhere.
Then back to boat around 5pm and lie on bed exhausted for
15 mins, change in bathing suit and freeze in the pool and warm up in Jacuzzi.
Then read and then get ready for dinner (Beauty and I get ready in 5 mins and
hubby needs 10). Then dinner, the show and usually a chocolate crepe from the
creperie somewhere along the way and then back to room read for an hour and all
of us sleep by midnight. Oh ya tickle and kissing fight with Beauty and then
brace on and then listen anxiously to her toss and turn all night as if she is
possessed (tonight is a sleeping pill for me for sure!)
Our days here are probably as busy as our days at home in
a lot of ways. Cruising to 12 different European cities and 5 countries is not
relaxing at all! But it is totally fun and wonderful. I drink way more caffeine
here (bad), eat way way more food here
(worse) and walk a hell of a lot more here (good). This trip I have nothing on
my mind and no need to plan anything except our next trips (travel has always
been a very big part of our lives and is big part of why we both have the type
of stressful busy type of careers we do in order to be able to travel)J
Mykonos todayJ
Paradise beach in morning but was mostly very cloudy which was sad-when the sun
came put we stayed another hour and Hubby and Beauty danced on the beach. I
slept on the beach. Ran out of books for the first time ever. Thank God I
tonight found a library here. Then we took the car to three other little
beaches and one was magnificent and a gorgeous cove. We stayed another hour
there lying on the rocks on our towels relaxing-really nice treat as our days
here are not often spent relaxing at all. Then lunch at another beach and then
back to the town center for a little bit of window shopping and a gyros
sandwich at the end of the day.
Highlights were the winding scary roads to the beaches,
Hubby’s talents once again to get us anywhere and everywhere, Beauty on the
beach free and brace free (we have been giving her some longer break days and
it is beautiful to see her free like that again), the baked feta, the tzicki,
Beauty’s new Mykonos shorts that replaced her old ones that were too short, me
getting compliments all over Greece on my jewelry, swim in the pool at end of
day, the windy Jacuzzi, me being always resentful for my Hubby needing to be so
punctual and ahead of time and losing time in each city because of this. Beauty
looking me in the eyes and saying “I love you”, Hubby looking me in the eyes
and telling me that everything was going to be ok with him, us knowing we get
to see our boys in a couple of days as we miss them!!!!
Tomorrow last touring day in Olympia Greece. Supposed to
rain…but lots of ruins to visit and churches to see. Note to self: make Beauty
wear pants.
Then a day at Sea and then back to Venice and home to our
real life! It has been a beautiful trip but it is time to come home now to our
work, our home, our families and our friends and our responsibilities. I am
quite certain that the “grade 6 trips” will continue every second year into
“Cegep trip”. Travelling with one of our kids at a time like this and exploring
the world is irreplaceable in terms of how well we get to know them, understand
them and bond with them. And we decided that if we are seeing these spectacular
things in the world..we want one of our kids with us each time.
Beach time is for the family or for us as a couple alone.
Cutural trips like this….for us and one kid at a time. All the way.
Hope boys are being good to my Mama! Hope she is not too
tired and she still loves usJ))
xoxoxoxo
