Five nights here…my mid-term luxury break…..
Martin left on Wednesday morning……off to Gatwick and straight on to Holland for a family camping gathering! He left with his back wheel….to leave at a bike shop in Heraklion to fix that slow puncture issue…!
It evidently was not the valve!
It turns out the wheel was quite badly buckled…probably Iain doing too many kerb-jumps with a fully laden carrier!! So hopefully that might have been the issue!! We’ll find out on Sunday!!
Otherwise….four very lazy days…..
Looking at this….
…or sun-bathing up here…(the first shot is into a mirror)
….or reading….
…and lots swimming. Not much beach here..but with my bijoux (an appropriate descriptor here for once) accommodation only two steps from the water…it really does not matter!!
The only drama occurred on the penultimate morning. A just-after dawn swim in a flat calm sea….diving off the beach…and that awful feeling mid-dive (no idea how the mind realised when my eyes were closed!)..that I had not removed my glasses!
But the water did!!
So I spent a long while searching…marking my take-off spot with a rock and stick! But of course…I did not have my glasses on! Haha
And then remembered that I carry a spare pair! Have never needed them…and often wonder if it is worth using the limited pannier space….but it is!!
Spare (two prescriptions old) glasses on…another fifteen minutes of searching…and there….wrapped around my stick…..were my lost glasses. You would not read about it! They had somehow drifted back to exactly where they started!!
Big relief!!
So celebrated with another swim…
And a cooked breakfast!!
More washing…..HAND-washing! When I booked this place..I clearly was not in the groove…for once on the go…a washing machine is on the essential list for rest-day stops!!
And then Shennae arrived!! Riding partner number three! Always sort of surprises me when the planned relay exchanges actually work!!
Flight an hour late….but our host here gave me a lift to the airport and back to pick her up! Knackered from too much work….but delighted to be away!
What a stunner of a very well deserved rest spot! 🙂
Yahoooo!!! God that looks like an excellent wee rest spot. Hi Shennae!!