Day 7 - Rhodes

We wake up with aching feet. Barely being able to get to the breakfast room, we plonk ourselves down at the nearest table. This is when we realised it was the perfect opportunity to stock up on supplies for the rest of the trip. We quickly move to a table near the corner of the room where we start pocketing packs of jam, cake and cookies. Final count?

Jam - 8
Cake - 10
Cookies - 9
One HUGE mega sandwich I built from breakfast food

We head towards the bus stop to catch a bus to the Butterfly Valley. A bunch of 60y.o. women were standing there so we decided to ask them if thats where the bus stop is and if they are going to the butterfly valley as well. They tell us that it is the bus stop (Even though there's no sign). So we stand around taking photos when I decided to walk 20m up the road to see a huge "BUS STOP" sign. What the hell? I grab Moishii and we quickly wait at the real bus stop whilst the blonde women follow us. We flag down the bus and pay our 7euros. 30mins later, we pull into the car park at the Butterfly Valley where we pay another 5euros to get in.

We follow the trail and hike up the hill taking photos and videos of the millions of butterflies. Technically, they are moths, but everyone calls it the Butterfly Valley. Would YOU go to Moth Valley? :P We're standing around taking photos when all of a sudden, this goat charges down the hill, stops about 10m from us and starts peeing before wandering off. o_O

The "Butterflies"

The Peeing Goat

After we hiked for about 2 hours, we stopped to scoff down the food we got during breakfast and buy some postcards. We thought we better head back to the car park since there are only 3 buses leaving the valley every day, and we've missed on already. We wait in the car park when all of a sudden you hear the whistle go off and a guy runs into the car park screaming and waving his arms at the parking cars. Apparently you're not allowed to park in the car park? They made about 5 cars move into the bush, each time blowing his whistle and screaming and ranting and raving. After about 10mins of watching this lunatic, the bus pulls into the car park. This is when everyone stampedes towards the bus WHILST it was doing a U-turn! Half of the people almost got run over FFS. The minute the bus stopped moving, I threw myself towards the door knowing that Moishii isn't the best line pusher. This is when the entire crowd surges forward almost crushing me. You would think the bus driver was giving out money the way they were behaving. I managed to get onto the bus after getting my thongs stepped on and almost ripped off my feet and grabbed a seat. Happy that we have a seat for the next 30mins, we sit back and relax.

Suddenly there was alot of commotion between the group of people sitting on our left. Alot of yelling was happening and a half eaten apple got passed around the group where everyone took a bite. This is when Moishii explains to me that the whole family is Turkish, and they were fighting over who paid for that apple. The mother claimed that she bought it, and the daughter insisted that she paid for it, meanwhile, the grandfather and grandson kept scoffing the apple when the daughter was insisting that she should be eating it. FFS, who argues over an apple!? The whole bus turned to watch them yell in Turkish and no one except Moishii knew what was going on!

About half way back to our hotel, my mobile suddenly rings. I look at the caller ID and it is Rollie from Access. Thinking something majorly bad must have happened with a project I worked on before, I answered the phone...

Me: (Worried voice) Hello?
R: Hi Mum! How's it going?
Me: Rollie?
R: Lily? OMG! I thought you were my mum!!
Me: No.....
R: How are you!?
Me: Errr...I'm in Greece.....
R: Omg! I better hang up before this call costs you heaps! Bye!
*Hangs up*
Me: Ok.......

We get off near our hotel and the first thing we do is run to the nearest phone booth and started calling people. I forgot who we called and what we screamed. Looking back at my diary, apparently I called Cookiez knowing that she would be in class and we would definately get her voicemail. We leave an abusive voicemail and hang up feeling better.

Now before I tell you what happens next, let me explained what happened the day before. Whilst we were exploring the old town, we came upon all these shops selling postcards ranging from 20c to 40c. We probably checked out about 15-20 stores, each time saying "We'll buy them later. I saw another place that sells them for 20c". The problem is, the 20c ones are more like paper than postcard/cardboard. So by the end of the day, we didn't buy a single postcard. Fast forward back to us wandering the back streets, we suddenly see a shop that had a rack of postcards outside. Without even saying a word to each other, we threw ourselves onto the rack and started grabbing postcards like they were for free!! We didn't check the price and we didn't say a word to each other. But we both walked out with about 20 postcards each. I think the whole "We'll buy the postcards later" built up and eventually erupted.

Feeling better with a bag full of postcards, we went back to the hotel to drop our stuff and get ready for the beach. We wait at the elevator, when this guy and girl walks up to wait behind us. This guy looked like a mutation of Hagrid from Harry Potter and a stoned heavy metal singer. My eyes literally went O_O and I quickly looked down at the ground. I didn't, no wait, I COULDN'T look at Moishii, cos the minute I do, I would piss myself laughing. The elevator arrives and I quickly jump in, avoiding eye contact the entire time. I pulled out a hair elastic and kept twirling it in my hand making it look like the most fascinating thing in the world. My body started to shudder as I tried not to laugh. The minute the elevator stopped on our floor, I ran out slamming the door behind me. This is when the laughing fit reaches bursting point. I start SNORTING in my effort not to laugh as I was standing at the stairwell, and I knew the couple was getting off the next level up and would hear us pissing ourselves laughing. I clamp my hand over my mouth and made a mad dash to our room whilst ramming myself into the hallway walls. When we finally unlocked the door, we PISSED OURSELVES LAUGHING. We laughed until we started hiccuping. We laughed until we couldn't breath. We laughed until we couldn't stand and had to collapse into bed clutching our KIDNEYS. I had tears running down my eyes and I thought I was having an asthma attack even though I don't have asthma!!!

We finally catch our breath after 5min laughing fit. This is when reception calls and asked if its ok for the electrician to come and fix our aircon. (Not that it really mattered. I fixed the whole "must sleep with lights on for aircon to work" issue by unscrewing all the lightbulbs). We were heading to the beach anyway so we told them to come up in 5 mins. We walk across the road to the beach, pay for our beach chairs and try to lie down and relax. This is when a 70y.o. woman walks right infront of us, plonks herself down on the chair and proceeds to strip BUTT NAKED. This woman was older than my parents, and she was sitting infront of me without a stitch of clothing on. I quickly close my eyes and pretend to sleep. Next thing you know, when we woke up, we found out that someone had been putting fliers on Moishii's chair. It was like he was a human billboard. We had a look at the flier and it was an all you can eat place for about 5euros each. Thinking it was a good deal, we decided that thats where we will go for dinner.

We pack ourstuff up and walk back to the hotel. The minute we walked into the room, all we saw was chipped plaster, paint, screws, metal grinding and electrician tools strewn throughout the room. PLUS there was no electricity. I thought they were supposed to FIX the problem, not take down the entire electrical system. We bring the reception chick back up to our rooms to fix the electricity problem. I also packed up the guy's left over tools, WD-40 and other crap to give back to her. The woman takes one look at the crap on our floor, thinking it was too much work to clean up, she walks out leaving us there. I used my shoes and kicked as much crap under the bed as I could and vowed not to go barefoot in the room.

Moishii decides to take a nap whilst I laid in bed reading my book. This is when I heard multiple loud burps from next door. Then I could hear them talking amongst themselves. GOD DAMNIT! Next door heard our entire screaming/laughing fit last night! How embarrassing!

Moishii wakes up with a sore throat and starts popping pills meaning no more drinking for him. We head towards our buffet dinner where we had one of the worst meals on the entire trip. The reason they can afford to run an all-you-can-eat place is because they oversalt the food so much, you basically can't eat it. Disgusted with the food, we ask for the bill whilst the sun started to set. We waited about 15mins when the waiter walks out with complimentary drinks (Alcoholic Cordial?) instead of a bill. I slam my drinks and Moishii's drinks down, grab my camera and ran for the beach whilst he sorts out the bill. Apparently after I ran out, everyone left their bags and food at the restaurant and ran out to take photos as well. You can understand why:


For someone who travelled for 5months last year, you don't know how to pack. Somehow you thought you could go around with a suitcase and a plastic bag instead of a handcarry. Well Moishii finally woke up and decided that he should get a handcarry to throw everything in. We walk across the street to a shop that sells luggage bags. We choose a bag from the shelf but then began to argue between us as to which bag is bigger and which would be suitable as a hand luggage. This is when the woman working there decided to settle the argument for us by pulling ALL the stuffing out. You know in those looney tunes cartoons where people are digging through a bag frantically and starts hurling stuff over their shoulders? This is EXACTLY what happened. The woman opened the bag and starts ripping the stuffing out and hurls it all around the store. Trying not to get hit, we slowly back away whilst she keeps throwing things left right and centre. When she managed to empty the bag, she raises it over her head as if to say "I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!" O_o Not wanting to cause a scene, we pay for the bag, run outside, then stand in the doorway taking a photo of her before making a get away.


We head back to the hotel as the pills were kicking in for Moishii. We laze around watching that british soap called Westgate (?) when this psychopathic chick pulls out a pick axe and starts going psycho on everyone. We called her Cherry. Oh, and we recorded half the show on the camcorder. Suddenly, you hear this banging and sqweaking. The guys staying in the room next to us was making so much noise they could wake up the dead. We run to our wardrobe where we can hear the guy bitching to his wife whilst he kept slamming all the doors in the room. We decided to get revenge by slamming our wardrobe door multiple times, clang all the clothes hangers and slamming them against the wall, slide our balcony door open and close so hard it slams into the wall everytime whilst we filmed it.

Moishii is knackered and hops into bed at 10pm whilst I roam around the streets doing some last minute shopping and decided to give cookiez a wake up call considering the bitch never messaged us back after our abusive voicemail. However, the bitch didn't even pick up her phone even though it was only 6am!!! PFFFFFFT I'll getcha!