Rhodes was a Breeze

06/27/2012

Today we arrived in Rhodes which is one of the many Greek islands. Rhodes was really beautiful, and finally we reached a place with bearable weather! Rhodes is a walled city-island, and it reminded me a lot of Visby (Sweden) which is an island in the Baltic we visited four years ago. Apparently in Rhodes there is a tea made from sage leaves that helps cure asthma. We were unable to find any of this tea, but I'm going to keep my search up because my asthma is driving me insane.

So far on this trip we haven't really had any opportunities to dip our feet in the water, so we finally did that today. Mom and I dipped our feet in the sea and it was cold and refreshing and sandy and wonderful. There wasn't too much to see in Rhodes. There is a medieval castle in the center of town which we sort of walked through and around (but didn't go inside), and then lots of little shops all selling the same things. I bought an apron with some hand-embroidered sailboats on it (I didn't see it anywhere else, so I thought it was unique).

We did stumble upon this really cool tree which had an eye painted on either side of it:

But other than that it wasn't really necessary to spend the whole day a-wandering. It was actually nice to just sit by the pool, read, swim a little, etc.