Election Day in Greece

So on September 17th, Greece held their goverment elections. I am still unclear as to what was actually being voted on...I think it may have been the presidential election as well as the election of the new governing board, but I there were no subtitles to be had so I can't be sure. All I know is that I wanted the cute little older man from the party with the green banners to win, but the man who plastered glamour shots of himself and looks like Paul Sorvino won the election with his party.

Anyhoot, because of the elections, lots of places are closed. They take their elections very seriously here. People were getting dressed up in their Sunday best and getting their vote on. Unfortunately for us though, it meant that we wouldnt get to go see the island of Delos and check out the ancient lions. So instead we....that's right people, we went to the beach. To the same one with the same loungers and we just chilled out.

That day we noticed an influx of the Chinese Masseusses working some kinks out on the beach. We first noticed this phenomenon in Santorini in Kamari where multiple Chinese people would be offering massage services on the beach. Now I am not one to assume that all Asians are Chinese, but they are all holding signs that say "Chinese Massage".... Anyway, I thought it was random, but didnt see anyone actually getting a massage in Santorini. Even our first beach day was relatively calm massage wise, but today was a flurry of massages. Mostly overweight british people were getting their feet and legs rubbed down. Yeah it's about as attractive as it sounds. But I can't hate, if it wasnt so random to be getting a massage on the beach in front of everyone, I may have actually partook in it. but seeing as they are using the same towel to wipe down the tiger balm off everyone and not having a clean sterile towel available for each fresh massage was a real turn off for me. No gracias. I am not trying to get rubbed down with dirty towels and tiger balm. I am actually gagging as I type this thinking about it. Today's beach animal du jour was a dog. He was pretty cute...unlike the straggly strays that have made their way into the greek landscape...this one was actually a pet. His owner was quite the opposite. He LOOKED as if he should have had a scraggly animal. He was the Greek Justin Bobby (It's a reference from The Hills ....google it)

After we left the beach, the day ended much like the one the day before. I think Rachel and I were both tired of island life and were excited to go back to the city. Who knew that Athens would be a welcome location from the idyllic island life. However, I am a city girl, and I need things to do. As much as the beach is cool, I just can't stay out there that long. I have delicate sensibilities. I was practically bathing in WaterBabies by the time I got out of mykonos. My skin felt and started to look like crap. All in all, I just felt generally greasy all the time.

I forgot to mention that we found the Greek equivelent to MTV--it was called MAD. They generally had really bad covers of current American Songs, or they would play one of the following or a combination of the three: Justin, Nelly Furtado, and Timberland. Any of them, and any combination of any of them would play about 2 out of 5 times. Also they played some hokey emo band called Sunshine Avenue. Super weak.

We also discovered early on that Mykonos was the island that catered most to the gays. Because of my love of the gay man, I was of course delighted. There were these two German boys who were next door to us that were very pretty and so very mo. Fabulous!! However, although we'd been told that Mykonos had a large gay tourist party crowd, I found that I have a hard time with my gaydar in Europe...because well the fashions are kinda mo, so you can just never tell. Regardless, it was a good time had by all. It would have been interesting to go clubbing, but I think by the time we got to Mykonos, we were already pretty exhausted and weren't trying to sound the big ting and party until the windmills stopped spinning. That was just fine with me. I needed to reserve my strength for power shopping in Athens.