Thassos 2004

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Day 5 - Sunday 13th June 2004

Today was Debs' birthday so as soon as we woke up, she ripped open her birthday cards and tore open the jeweller's box containing a pair of ear-rings to go with the necklace I bought her for Christmas. But today wasn't just Debs' birthday, today was our cruise around Thassos.

After a swift breakfast and a short coach ride to the port, we boarded The Victoria. A lot of people that have been to a Greek resort will have been on a 'sunshine cruise' and this one wasn't much different - it had the usual sail around and point out the sights, as well as a stop at a beach or two, and lunch. Except the enticement of this trip was to catch your own lunch via hook, bait and fishing line. But despite my limited fishing experience, neither Debs nor I caught anything (there were a few bites but no catches), but then again only four fish were caught by the entire boat, so there wasn't anything to be ashamed of.

Unfortunately Debs began to feel unwell at the start of the afternoon, and on her birthday too, so she didn't really enjoy the rest of the trip. It was nice, though, to be away from a beach-load of Germans.

Debs wasn't feeling well enough for dinner, so I wandered off to the restaurant by myself. Up on return, and after finishing my Stephen King book, we went to the complex bar for the England-France game. In fact we were late because I was so captivated by my book that the opening match for England in the European Championships was relegated to second in the priorities list and THAT is something that doesn't happen very often.

At half-time, when England were a goal up, Debs wasn't feeling good and I decided to call it a night. Knowing that the next 45 minutes of football would either be incredibly tense as England clung onto their lead, or it'd be extremely painful as France fought their way back into the match and probably winning it.