Kos, Greece – on holiday for a week
Saturday, June 7th, 2008Good evening/morning all, it has been such a long time since I wrote on this blog, but this is because i haven’t really been anywhere worth mentionning. We are now in Greece (my first time) on the island of Kos, which is part of the Dodecanese group of islands, and I love it. We arrived yesterday after a crap flight from Manchester that got us at 2.30 / 3.00 in the morning. Thankfully we had the transfer sorted through the travel agent so a bus was waiting for us to transfer the various holiday makers to the different resorts. My experience of package holidays started with the Canary islands, which is probably the worst place to start as all it is is just a factory where bucket loads of tourists flog to get the best tan, the best sunbed, the most drunk, and the most sunburnt. A few years ago, I went to Portugal on the same “format” of holiday, but it was nowhere near as bad. And I must admit this one is pretty brilliant too. I was a bit scared, as after backpacking, I used to think package holidays were shit. But truth be told, it quite nice not to have to worry about how to get to the resort, whether a room will be available, will we get ripped off etc. We arrived at the resort at 4.00am, in the small town of Tingaky, and are staying at the Fili apartments. It really is a nice quiet resort (we’re not too hot on the 18/30 club), about 9km from the main city of Kos and 2km from Tingaki’s town centre. The hotel itslef is made out of several self contained studios, all very clean, really well kept grounds and 3 spotless pools (one of which for toddlers). The custom is mostly very young families or older people (mainly heavy scottish drinkers, one of them being a girl in her 30s who has got the broadset accent ever – i thought she was dutch!) or young couples like us. During the day it is really laid back with all kinds of music playing, there’s also a pool table and a “babyfoot”, or table football. The food is dirt cheap and there’s plenty of it. I must admit that I felt really bad, when after some sleep we got up and went to the centre, ordered breakfast at la Scala on the main square, I coudn’t say thank you and good bye in greek. I am just not used to this and felt really rude. After nosying around and doing some shopping we went back to the resort and just crashed on the sunbeds until 6.00pm. In the evening we stayed in the hotel bar and had food and drinks. Just a nice way to spend a Friday ;0
AnneandMark