Saturday 20th June 2009
Sitting back and taking in Chora Sfakions beauty
So far this week all the geographers have been working very hard and therefore our leader, Alan Howard made a very popular decision to allow us to have the day to sit back, relax and enjoy the natural beauty of Chora Sfakion…and too right we did!!
As usual we started the day with our breakfast. Afterwards, a few of us went for a little wander around the local mini market and shops to purchase some souviners to take back home to England with us. We were quite surprised when we found out that one of the shop owners was English and were even more shocked when she told us she was the illustrator of Peter Trudgill’s book “In Sfakia” which we had been reading over the last few days. When we were all shopped out we hit the beach with our sun cream…it was very hot!!
It was lovely to have a day to lie on the sun beds on the beach, hear the waves creeping up the shore and have the sun beaming down on us.
Soph sunbathing while reading her 'In Safkia' book
Relaxation soon turned into commotion and excitement when the Dolphin Restaurant (which is a few metres along from our hotel) caught fire! A few of us and Richard were happily cooling off in the sea when we heard a loud bang. Mike then announced that there was smoke coming out of the top of the restaurant. The fire quickly spread as we all jumped out of the sea to take photos!! There were billows of black smoke which soon turned grey. Luckily, the fire soon put itself out. Good job really as it was a good 20 minutes before the fire engine turned up!!
The Dolphin hotel with workmen on the roof!
In the evening, we all went for a meal but as you can probably guess, it wasn’t in the Dolphin Restaurant!!
When we negotiate where to eat Saturday evening and decided against going to the Dolphin, RIchard joked “you don’t fancy chargrilled dolphin then!”
