Mornings are not my thing. So it’s great when the sun is nowhere near up and I’m able to trick myself into thinking it’s still night. Sarcasm. We made it out the door on time and caught the first bus we saw. I had no idea where we were going, and relying on other people for directions is not my forte. I do not like feeling lost and would prefer to have a map on me at all times. We made it to the port and had a little bit of walk until we found out ferry. We had splurge and extra 10 Euros for assigned seats and I was ever so thankful when I saw the mass of people camped out on the benches. An 8 hour ferry ride on a bench? No thank you.
We slept most of the way, getting up every once in a while to check out the view. It was a bleak morning for the first couple of hours and I don’t think I missed much. By lunch time the sun had come out and we were passing island after island. The water is so blue it’s kind of unbelievable. I know I’ve been in Texas too long when the water starts to look blue. It’s crazy blue. We got to the port a little after 3:00pm and grabbed a taxi to the apartment. Our landlord was waiting for us and showed us the place. We are staying in Perissa Beach, which is on the West side of the island. It looks like a typical beach town, but being the off season, it’s quite and has a lazy vibe. We walked 100 meters down the road to the beach road that has all of the restaurants and bars. We saw the black sand beach and felt the water. It wasn’t freezing, but it was about 20 degrees away from me swimming in it. We stopped at a restaurant at the end called Aquarius for lamb and stuffed vine leaves. The vine leaves were quite good, much better than I’ve had in the states. We walked through town a bit and my Dad bought a book. He has fairly bad jet lag so finding something to do at 3:00am was near the top of his list. We made it back to the room and called it an early night after a long day.
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