Tourist Behaviour
Bus stampede for the Water park
The Reps always sell tickets for things they shouldn’t and the inevitable overbooking or overcrowding occurs.
"I'm not very big on personal space invasion,” says a headmaster, then piles onto the bus before the women & children, who had queued.
At 4 o' clock upon the return south, everyone piles onto the Rhodes Town bus............ …..and off again, then onto the Kolymbia bus.......and off again.......even though the buses have 'Rhodes' & 'Kolymbia' on the front. They think every bus goes to every resort! Mad.
Eventually, two buses pull up for the South, Kiotari & Lindos area, but still mums and babies are smashed in the crush. Nice.
And I thought the Russians were bad!
2. Woman to Sam: “Where did you get those funky board-shorts?”
Sam relies, “Do you mean what shop?”
Woman: “As opposed to what planet?” Sarcasm?
3. Cocktail & Milkshakes in the waterpark
People bought milkshakes & took the glasses to the pool despite signs warning them not to....and......wind blew and smashed them.....right next to the sun-loungers and the water's edge! Glass everywhere.
4. Inflatables – wind again.
People put their lilos, etc. up on the walls & when the wind blew it blew them away! Into gardens which were inaccessible or places they couldn't climb into.
5. Pool games – Balls!
Kids love pools – adults love reading books in them or trying not to get wet!
Jak aims & strikes – direct hit! In the face....normally a bollocking, but this one had told the kids to go to play in the top pool as if they weren't allowed there!
“Face like a field of ploughed turnips!” Game on.
6. “I want a new phone!”
Man in Lindos to Costas, who was playing raquets, outside a beach bar. Costas accidentally knocks the phone out of his hand while playing.
“Why are you so aggressive to my customers?” waiter, to Costas.
7. Boat Trip with the Pefkos Glassbottom Boat.
Tourist to Captain Janno: about the goats he’s spotted high up on the cliff-face.... “I say, what do they eat?”
Janno: “ I'm a Captain, not a bloody shepherd!”
Hello, my friend !
8. Janno, to a swimmer, near St. Paul's...
“Hello, my friend, how are you? Nice woman there, she's better than the one you were with yesterday!”
9. Jak to me, about the trip to Lindos
“Are we going to be looking around?”
Me: “We will be looking forward, as well.”
10. Sam, about some new arrivals,
“They're all over Costas like polymorphic light-eruptions!”
11. Some girls arrive late and on their1st night forget air-con & water and sleep on cold tiles. The next day they dash up Tsambiko’s for water at opening-time next day, tongues down to ankles....
Avoid air-con costs. Stay up!
12. “Molon Labe!” says the t-shirt.
And the poor Spartan (Cypriot, actually) is left locked out of his room the 1st night by his missus, after he gets smashed. “You're only here once!”
13. The Steps of the Philosophia
In the sea we are, when suddenly, bounding down the steps from the Taverna Philosophia comes a back-packer. Bounding rather quickly, I thought, for such awkward steep steps. But no, his pace quickens and his bounding turns into a half-jog, half-gallup. He now has no control over his downward momentum, but he sees the handrail. Relief. But it's not a handrail near the bottom but some rope and he sprints and stumbles, tripping sideways and hits the side at full pace. But the handrail finishes at exactly the point he falls and his ribs smash into the end of the metal handrail full-force. He winces and is still jogging as he hits the beach, but pretends that nothing has happened and continues jogging along the sand. The pain is excruciating even from our vista in the water. Sam & I collapse.
14. Mountain fires
We are eating in the taverna above the hotel, as the southern end of the island burns.
Billowing smoke as the South burns
Billowing smoke as the South burns
But our entertainment comes from the next table, where an old woman & a young girl sit down. “It has to be tap water,” she says to the stunned waiter.
“Are you charging us for that?” as she points to the bread.
The the two of them engage in half an hour of mutual abuse! Bizarre.
I'm thinking child-abduction. The waiter's thinking, “Why, my taverna?”
Strangest thing I've seen for a while.
Here are pics of the fires, too.
