Thassos 2004

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Day 7 - Tuesday 15th June 2004

Debs was almost feeling normal again today, so she spent a lot of the day on the beach with me, watching the world go by and muttering at whining German children whose sandcastle infrastructure were being attacked on two fronts and their sandy empires were beginning to crumble.

Rumour had it that it was 31 degrees today, according to Stephanie who had heard it from her friend with the dodgy hip who had heard it from a shopkeeper in town who had heard it from a taxi driver whose car measured it, so the best way to cool off was to amble over to the swimming pool and do a few lenghts.

There were crying German toddlers in rubber rings at the shallow end and slightly older German children dive-bombing the deep end (bombing must be in their blood), so the sloping middle became our Andersen shelter. When lifting Debs up and throwing her to a deeper part of the pool where she couldn't stand up and frantically paddled to safety like a drowning puppy became slightly tiresome, we cuddled like the loving couple we are until I tried to pull off her bikini bottoms, alas only as far as her knees but low enough to give any submerged snorkelling German a bit of a fright!

Completely in the dog-house for several hours afterwards, I sank further into my Clancy book and topped up the tan. We played a few games of cards before heading back for showers, food and an early night.