No time of even thinking about the scaryness of my empty nest, as early the next morning we left Loulidi, and within an hour we threw anchor about half a kilometer from the village of Koundouros, still on Kea. Nikos and myself were taken to the beach which was littered with beautiful people baking in the sun. All was perfect as there were other kids with their nannies, and Nikos was quite happy playing with them, and I mingled with the girls. But then he decided that he would like to swim, and I was forced to take off my shorts and bare my well rounded and lilly white thighs. It would still have been ok, if we went into the water and swam, but no, the child was running up and down, running into the water at sudden spurts. The water was very deep at some spots, so I had to be near him, and I was panting up and down behind him like a bally albino walrus!
After a while I noticed that all the beautiful people were sitting up watching our sprints across the beach, some with awe, some looking thunderstruck. I must have been one sorry sight, as all the women were bronzed to perfection, and beautifully sculpted, and they were all topless. I was clad in my granny swimsuit that my children threatened to burn about ten years ago, and this little number did not allow for even a glimpse of a clevage! The women were so perfect that I suspected that Athens had a lot of very busy sculpting doctors who would have a field day trying to sculpt me!
Luckily I do not have a too bad selfesteem, otherwise I would have been devastated, but nevertheless, I was shaken, and when Dorah and Yannis eventually swam ashore and told me that I could explore the village until lunchtime, and to meet them at the taverna after, I exhaled thankfully, and made for the shops to buy some selftanning lotion. None of the shopowners new what I was talking about, and After walking myself into a state of exhaustion, I gave up and decided to try at the next island or bigger village.
We had a most beautiful meal of different fish dishes. Yannis is such a lovely man, and decided to order one of each of the dishes, and then we would share in order for me to taste eveything. What absolute bliss, but this state of bliss was spoiled a bit when they left after the meal and I was again left on the beach with my tormentor, who behaved almost too well, but I think his tummy was too full to be running around!
I was really getting into the swing of things, and lokoed forward to our next port of stop!