Greece was always one of our favored places to go to.In August, 2001 we decided to go there again as I turned the venerable age of 50. Getting there was easy. From Athens to Volos and from there by flying Dolphin to Skiatos. It seems that we were not alone in our wish to be on one of the nicest Islands. The place was full, packed full with people. We asked at the travel office in the port, we asked in restaurants, like we knew you do from back in the days. Nobody had a romm , let alone an appartment for the 4 of us. We then devided in 2 groups the boys to one direction , me and Abe the oposite and we met back after about one hour time. Nothing happend, nobody knew of any free accomodation that we could have. We went back to the turist office, in the mean time it was 12:30 at night. People were having fun, eating at the beautiful places that lined the port of Skiatos.We went back to the Travel office and asked again, they offered us a car, a cinque cento, the tiny small italian cars. We took it and were happy to put the luggage in it.
The guy in the travel place asked"would you go 10 km east on the island, we may have a room there". We would have gonne anywhere at the time, I was so tired i could not think strait anymore. In we got in our tiny cinquecento, the four of us and the luggage. We arrived at the Hotel, it was a 4 star...waw and we had a room, a very nice one at that. The place was just on the beach, so the first day enden well after all. The strty continuues because we had this room only for one night.............
