The thrilling saga continues… I went out to eat on Monday night, over the road to the Wok and Roll. (See what they did there?) I’m not usually one of those who share photos of their noodles and things, so I shan’t, but I had Singapore noodles for my supper, and very nice they were too.
Further down the pedestrian street, Koukos was doing its usual roaring business. I’ve known this place for over 20 years, and it gets bigger each time I see it. It’s well worth a visit if you can ever get in, and looks a lot prettier than my photo picks up.
That was Monday. On Tuesday, with all day to myself, I started off with a walk around the peninsular as it is so much easier to get your steps in on Rhodes than it is on Symi thanks to it being mainly on the flat. I think I did 15,000 steps on Tuesday, in the end. Breakfast was at the Plaza where, for €12.00, you can have as much as you want from the buffet. Two cups of coffee, a plate of all kinds of cooked things, and some yogurt, toast, fruit etc., would cost more than €12.00 at a café, so that, to my mind, was a bit of a bargain.
Shopping was on my list of things to do; some new t-shirts and a hoodie, to start with, so I set off to the usual stomping grounds. Everything, it seems is grey. Blandness is making a comeback this season, with the dreary black and lighter shades of mediocrity being the in-thing for men. The trend has been set by H&M and their collection of drab, with the theme of off-white banality developing into the risky world of beige over at Zara. Even Pull & Bear have taken the bromidic path of couldn’t-careless-ness black, grey, beige, and ‘once might have been cream,’ coloured everything. Trousers, shorts, hoodies, jumpers, coats… Yawn. At least in the men’s department of H&M one can take a moment to ponder the ancient monuments.
Luckily, I found some colour over the rainbow at Terra Nova, where there, among the grey, were some offerings for men in green, purple and blue. So, with three new T-shirts and a maroon hoodie, I set off up to my next hotel, the Castellum, there to check in early (10.30) so I could make use of the facilities, dining room, bar, you name it, and the room which as usual, was clean and spacious. I set to work on the book for most of the rest of the day, apart from taking a lovely long walk in the afternoon to see if I could find my jeweller open in the Old Town, because I’d brought over Sam’s necklace to be repaired. The jeweller wasn’t in, but then I didn’t arrive there until two in the afternoon, so thought I’d try the next day. Thus, it was back to the hotel for more food and reading, chat and hanging out as I waited for Neil to arrive at some point around midnight.
The ‘what I did in the holidays’ ramble will continue tomorrow.
