Just sitting down to write tomorrow’s post and there’s the coastguard helicopter circling overhead and one of the coastguard ships out in the straight. You can’t quite make it all out in this photo. I can only assume more refugees are trying to get arcos from Turkey and the recent crackdown on the people traffickers hasn’t put anyone else off starting up their own illegal business. Or it may just be an exercise of course.
It’s a grey day out there today with the wind getting up and the air feeling cold. We’re off to a tap rehearsal after a light lunch, then to Yialos to the bank and then back up for an evening in, keeping warm and probably starting on ‘Game Of Thrones’ series two. Yesterday we entertained a couple who we had chatted to in Rhodes when we went out for dinner; they came over for a day trip to Panormitis and Symi and came up to the house for a glass of wine in the afternoon. In the evening, Neil and I called in to Georgio’s for some local lamb, and very nice it was too. And now ‘Great Week’ starts in the build up to Easter. The smell of cooking from next door is wonderful as people prepare for the break of the fast on Saturday night/Sunday.
But before all that, I can share with you some of Neil’s photos from Rhodes, and my only problem is, which ones to start with? Well, I have to share the ones of us messing around in Mandraki. This was on Friday evening when we’d started to go a bit stir crazy. We’d done all the doctors’ things and everything was fine there, we’d had lunch, we’d done the walks and the shopping – including an hour in Jumbo for all those things you didn’t realise you wanted by don’t actually need. So, by the evening we were feeling a bit like being silly as we went for a sunset stroll around the harbour. It was a very pleasant sunset and just the right lighting for doing handstands on benches and practicing the tap routine.
But enough of that. Remember I mentioned the ‘Throne Of Helios’? That’s the 9D Cinema show playing in Rhodes right now. Here’s its website; you may have to click on the language flags to the right. http://www.throneofhelios.com/index.php
It’s a 3D show but it has other gimmicks and gadgets that add the extra dimensions – which are not really dimensions I guess, but you get to experience more than any other 3D cinema that I have encountered. The only thing missing is smell. At one point we had a chamber pot thrown over us, next moment we were riding up the Street of the Knights in Rhodes Old Town and then flying above the island before going under water. All very clever and great to see. It was €10.00 per adult, though there are various ticket options available. We were the only two in for this 20 minute show, the other people had come to see the other show which is about Darwin. Although that wasn’t due on until an hour later, the staff played it for the group straight after us.
That gave the other group time enough to see the exhibition that is in the same building, and learn more about the history of Rhodes. It’s a great adventure, good fun for children and adults alike, though under sevens might get scared. There’s nothing nasty in it but your chair moves, you get a bit wet, there’s wind and it’s all very realistic.
You can find this place just behind Starbucks, on Mandraki front, on the road that leads up to the Lydia Hotel and Ote. If you’re waiting for a ferry over to Symi and have a night in Rhodes, it’s a great way to pass a bit of time. As is doing handstands on benches, but I only recommend that for those who a) can do it, b) don’t care, or c) have had a drink.
