27th September
With the help of the Scottish lady in Carrefour supermarket and with Olly's reccy, we found Ammousa beach. Small, only 20 minutes away and down a pretty quiet olive tree lined road which was not too steep. The beach has bamboo umbrellas, cheaper than the other beach at 4euros per pair and a bar and a taverna. Quiet and secluded except when R decided to race along the boardwalks shouting loudly. We played making zoos and space rockets and towers from the pebbles which quietened him for a short time at least. We were aware of older folk dozing on their loungers!
In 1995 or thereabouts we drove to a beach here and an old lady requested a lift from us. She sat in the back of the car in her traditional black dress and headscarf, not saying a word and we thought she would alert us to where she wanted to be dropped. She didn't and got out of the car with us at the beach and sat on a low wall, where she remained for most of the day. We wonder to this day what she was up to and whether we completely misinterpreted her intentions and had dragged her to somewhere she had no desire to go to. We now believe Ammousa is the beach as it has a low wall and the road enters it as in our memories. We half expected to find her still sitting there!
So we have renamed this beach Goblin beach. This is because on that same holiday, the lovely Yorkshire family next door to us in our apartments told us that their 8 year old son had seen a black attired old lady with her walking stick and asked, "is that a goblin?" That stuck!
Beach umbrellas slowly being taken down as it is the end of the season, the pole gets pushed down into the ground up to table level:
With the help of the Scottish lady in Carrefour supermarket and with Olly's reccy, we found Ammousa beach. Small, only 20 minutes away and down a pretty quiet olive tree lined road which was not too steep. The beach has bamboo umbrellas, cheaper than the other beach at 4euros per pair and a bar and a taverna. Quiet and secluded except when R decided to race along the boardwalks shouting loudly. We played making zoos and space rockets and towers from the pebbles which quietened him for a short time at least. We were aware of older folk dozing on their loungers!
In 1995 or thereabouts we drove to a beach here and an old lady requested a lift from us. She sat in the back of the car in her traditional black dress and headscarf, not saying a word and we thought she would alert us to where she wanted to be dropped. She didn't and got out of the car with us at the beach and sat on a low wall, where she remained for most of the day. We wonder to this day what she was up to and whether we completely misinterpreted her intentions and had dragged her to somewhere she had no desire to go to. We now believe Ammousa is the beach as it has a low wall and the road enters it as in our memories. We half expected to find her still sitting there!
So we have renamed this beach Goblin beach. This is because on that same holiday, the lovely Yorkshire family next door to us in our apartments told us that their 8 year old son had seen a black attired old lady with her walking stick and asked, "is that a goblin?" That stuck!
Beach umbrellas slowly being taken down as it is the end of the season, the pole gets pushed down into the ground up to table level:
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