September Blues

I'm back!

(My sister/flatmate is busy having a meltdown because she just permanently stained our new extra expensive sofa SHE insisted on buying. I refuse to get involved.)

Where am I back from? I had three weeks leave over August. Obviously I wasn't going to sit around in boiling Athens. I disappeared to the islands. I went camping and swimming and sunbathing. So where did I go? First to Crete, then to Donousa and then to Kuthnos. I know it's all Greek to you (tee hee).
It was hot and windy - as per usual. The seas where blue (and freezing in Donousa). Everywhere was crowded with Greeks and Italians and Frenchies. We spent our time visiting new beaches, swimming, sleeping in the sun and eating. A typical Greek holiday. The only amusing anecdotes I have are snipets of overheard conversations.

Crete: (A ditzy blond is getting a henna tattoo from a good looking blond blue eyed guy with a street stall.)
DITZY BLOND MAKING SMALL TALK: So where are you from?
TATTOO GUY: I'm Serbian
DITZY BLOND TRYING TO BE OPENMINDED: Wow! It doesn't show!

Donousa: (Student Girl is playing rackets with Average Guy on beach in front of us she has just met)
STUDENT GIRL: Are you a student?
AVERAGE GUY: No, those days are long gone.
STUDENT GIRL SURPRISED: How old are you then?
AVERAGE GUY: I'm thirty.
STUDENT GIRL SHOCKED: Oh my god! You certainly don't look it! (MEANING: I don't believe I'm actually talking to someone so old.)

Kuthnos: (I'm sitting with Maria, Boula and Elly at a restaurant.)
WAITER: What will you be having?
MARIA: I want fish. What fish do you have?
WAITER: We have gilthead, mullet and mackerel.
MARIA: I don't know if I like any of those fish.
WAITER: The mackerel is very good.
MARIA: I don't know if I like mackerel. I'll ask my mother.
WAITER LOOKS GOBSMACKED
MARIA ON MOBILE: Mum, do I like mackerel?
MOTHER: I don't know, but you father does!
MARIA TO WAITER: I'll have the mackerel.

Truth is, I have been back for two weeks now. And Athens in September is awful. After three months of blistering heat you would really like a break instead of having to suffer through September, which is invariably hot and muggy.

I might try and post some holiday photos later on...