Yesterday’s stats: Miles walked, nine, worst giros in the world ever eaten, one. Rather, half a one, but I’m not telling you where it was, only that it was in Rhodes, where the weather was just right for wandering aimlessly around shops and sites. There will now have to be a few photos of the excursion to fill these pages over the next few days, not that I took many photos. I’ve still not exhausted the images from the last trip, but we’ll get there.
Let’s start by leaving, and the walk down to the harbour.
Where the boat backs in…
And from there to my favourite spot, out the back in the fresh air. I say fresh, it is as long as you don’t stand in the direct path of any fumes from the funnels or the vehicles below. Once you’re on the move, it’s fine.
Although the sea was calm, it took a while for the ship to dock in Rhodes, creeping ever starboard to the quayside, and I mean, inch by inch. We got there in the end, though, and everyone poured off. I had plenty of time before my appointment, so wandered around the coast path to Akandia gate, and then took a cut-through to miss out the tourist harbour entrance and the road with very little path. Onwards to Mandraki for a pit stop at the best public toilets in this part of the world. Clean (they’ve got new stone sink surrounds, it looks like), locks, seats, music playing, cleaners on hand so they’re always spotless, and for the gents, YouTube videos playing above the urinals so you can watch cats being daft while you do your biz. After that, it was off to Zara’s for a sweaty look around. Sweaty because I only have to walk three paces and I’m dripping, yesterday was warm enough that I didn’t need my jacket, and the escalators at the shop weren’t working. In clothes shops, menswear is inevitably on the top floor or in the basement, have you noticed? M&S, top floor, H&M, basement (was, now it’s women’s clothes down there and men’s seems to have vanished), Zara’s, top floor, Pull and Dump or whatever it’s called, basement. We’re always up and down stairs, and in most of these stores, M&S in particular, they seem to have the heating on full blast even in summer. That’s one reason I rarely try on clothes, it’s too darn hot. Besides, it’s not nice to put a damp shirt back on the rails. Anyway… I’ll finish for today with a nice shot of the outskirts of the Old Town at Mandraki.
