Another blistering hot day - now very red in many places!
Only item of real note today was Blankie Man. The evenings do get a little chilly this time of year, so be prepared. This chap wasn’t and resorted to stealing his baby daughters blanket from her push chair. Whilst poor Daisy froze her little bit’s off, Daddy was quite snuggly in her lambs wool blanket. Go get a whole lot of man up pills mate. (PS you look like a twat).
Free ice creams on the beach courtesy of Movenpick and part of their sponsorship of the Sani Gourmet week ( more of this event tomorrow). Several people were injured in the stampede to get there first. Surprisingly the winner was a large Bavarian woman who declared that she needed to take 6 portions! Fat greedy bitch. Good ice cream though.
Not really a lot to say today. Sky very blue this morning and ate breakfast virtually on the beach.
Need to bit a little more respectful of this spring sun as it is fierce. Note nice shades of red and white on right thigh.
Better picture of our apartment today, one of the two on the right.
Couple of beers in the main hotel bar.
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Dinner again nearly on the beach. Great setting, a little chilly and the first bad dish of the holiday - Mrs CT’s chicken was very dry unlike the cosmopolitan she started with.
Nothing yet annoying me this holiday. I will try a get a little more grumpy tomorrow!
After an early night we awoke at 7am (for which read Mrs CT made us get up at this time to “make the most of the day”). Great breakfast which included a good attempt at British bacon. No HP sauce alas. Not a cloud in the sky so off for a walk around the marina. This can be seen in the daily video - please note that I will not be providing commentary on the videos, pictures paint a thousand words. So apologies to a Mrs Cross of Haywards Heath for this omission and for too many pictures of our plane (ed. - I like planes).
Mrs CT took part in the daily Pilates session - 2 students and a teacher, after which we collapsed on to the comfortable sun loungers on the beach 50 metres from our back garden. The service at this resort is excellent and includes a delightful young lady appearing every couple of hours offering to clean your sunglasses or provide a cool flannel.
Lunch consisted of dips, grissini, Lays crisps (only the best), Heineken and an agreeable dry white. A late siesta saw me refreshed and ready to go out on manoeuvres (exploring the resort unaccompanied). Nice bar located overlooking the marina and a reserve Amstel purchased - note for the future, do not let the waitress pour the beer!
The Sani Resort now has an app which allows you to make dinner reservations at any of the 22 restaurants as well has having loads of information on what’s going on etc. We have made bookings for every night of our stay as we soon discovered, that if you didn’t, dinner times were restricted to either 18:30 or 21:30. Tonight’s choice was Tomata an award winning restaurant that we visited last time. Great menu and even better service. Prawns, octopus, crayfish & steak all cooked freshly on the giant bbq in one corner of the terrace. Even pudding was on the house.
Mrs CT looked downright gorgeous tonight (as she does every night) wearing a “Tiffany” coloured number with chunky pearls.
The evening was rounded off at The Garden Theatre with an above average resident cast of entertainers singing and dancing numbers from well known West End and Broadway productions. The stage settings and lighting were also excellent.
Nothing to moan about today, which is unlike me. I hope I am not sickening for something!
So off we go again for what is now our traditional May break in the sun. We are returning to visit a resort we previously enjoyed in 2011 (see Blog Archives for May 2011), Sani Resort in Halkadiki, Greece. This time staying at the newly built Sani Dunes complex of apartments offering luxurious adult holidays. Sounds good!
A new feature of this year’s blogs will be a daily video, see below, so you may skip reading if you so wish and go straight to the action.
Very early flight courtesy of British Airways departed Gatwick at 06:00am. Safely settled into our Club Europe seats it was noted that the row in front of us was empty despite the calls for all passengers in these seats to board first. It soon became apparent why these 2were late as they were of the “Tim, nice but dim” types. Totally oblivious to what was going on around them, only caring about themselves. Only there weren’t 2 but 3. Little 2 year old George was already kicking off and being ignored by Tim & Jocasta. The parents had left it late in life to have a first child and had little idea on how to control the little $hit. George, probably only used to obeying commands from the nanny/au pair, knew exactly how to get what he wanted from his part-time parents ie scream loudly and ear piercingly shrill until he got his way, which he always did. Tim & Jocasta, please study Pavlov on how to break this action/reward situation. Noise cancelling earphones and a bit of 1980s tunes took care of the screaming for the remainder of the 3 hour flight.
Fairly uneventful flight apart from when Tim tried to crush me and my laptop by reclining his seat with no notice. A swift knee to the back and a loud “do you mind” reversed his selfish action.
Onwards from Thessaloniki airport to Halkadiki in the mighty mini Peugeot. Whole of the backseat and boot taken up with our luggage. How Avis can advertise this car as capable of transporting 5 adults and 2 suitcases is scandalous. Forty minutes later and we arrived. Car keys, car and luggage taken away from me, we were whisked to our beautiful seafront apartment via the bar for complimentary arrival drinks - proper drinks and not watered down Cava or Sangria.
Dinner booked at The Market which is the on-site restaurant for Sani Dunes. Definitely above average for standard hotel food.
