Saturday 20th June 2009

We had a shaky start to the day due to recovering from last night’s antics, which included finding “Kenzo’s”, Sfakia’s answer to Dogma! We showed the locals both how to drink their wine and then how to dance with British grace and style. So after a lazy morning spent on the harbour beach, we were suddenly startled from our semi-hungover slumber by people running from the Delphini Taverna, which we had eaten at on Thursday night. At first, Zoe thought they might have stolen something, but we were soon enlightened by smoke billowing from the chimney and flames seen on the awning – which explained the unknown explosion we had heard earlier. After this drama, and with the fire seeming under control, we decided to chill out and so headed to Ilingas beach with some of our fellow geographers – although on arriving we realised we had forgotten Ryan, as the first group who got there thought he was coming later, and the others thought he was already there! (There had been reports that he was last seen leaving the Delphini Taverna with a bottle of Raki and a box of matches… although these are yet unconfirmed by The Daily Star and so shouldn’t yet be taken as fact…) 

We settled down for some serious sunbathing and a dash of swimming & snorkelling along the coast that we had explored yesterday. Some of the boys also made a new friend when an old woman who had swum quite far out returned their ball from bat and ball, which had been thrown by Jamie in a childish rage! We decided to go for a meal at the Ilingas Taverna as a thank you for the information the owner had given us yesterday. Being the mature university students that we are, we used our initiative to create a tower of cans. In other news, a dog looking surprisingly like George Michael was spotted outside the restaurant providing further giggles.

 

Despite spaghetti bolognaise and pork/lamb chops seeming to be the only dishes available, a good meal was had by all. On our walk back to the hotel, we trekked up the many steps to the church of Saint Anthony, where we could appreciate a view of the whole village. It was the end of another enjoyable day in Chora Sfakion.