Today we left Kos and travelled to Rhodes by catamaran (Dodecanese seaways). We had checked out at 10:00am, but the "cat" was not scheduled to leave until 4:30, so we spent the day sitting around the hotel playing pool and sitting in a cafe sipping "frappes". These are a cold coffee drink made with powdered coffee, water, evaporated milk and sugar. Pretty nice, but somewhat risky if you have been avoiding tap water for most of the trip.
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| Rhodes Harbour |
The short trip (2 hours) to Rhodes was welcome since it had been a long day and we enjoyed relaxing in the "airplane" seats. When we arrived, we ran the gauntlet of offers for hotels and made our way through the Marina Gate in the fortified wall of the old town to have a beer, and decide on how to get to our hotel (The Angela Suites and Lobby); which, technically was not booked because we had not received a reply from them. After a couple of phone calls, we confirmed the booking and grabbed a taxi. It's funny how hotels look so much better on the web site than they do in real life. This one did not impress at first, austere, showing its age and the rooms not really clean. And, true to form, we were escorted to our apartment at the back of the hotel, furthest from the lobby where no WiFi signal could be detected. But, look beneath the surface, and we discovered that the rooms have cabled broadband, so we could hook up our little Netcomm travel router and serve up our own WiFi. So iPods and iPhones are go. Also, our hosts were very friendly, and helpful, and offered free coffee and cake each morning for breakfast.
That night, we also discovered the hotel was close to the beach (not as close as the web site claims), and close to a thriving restaurant precinct. We decided on Indian, "Om" (yes as in the chant) and I have to say the restaurant was first-class. They also served varieties of tea and serverd beer from a Greek micro brewery ("Craft").
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