Dear Andy:
We are staying at the Pearl Hotel in Rhodes. Newly opened with a big balcony and $4 a night. Add on another $5 a day for food we are living like royalty for under $10 a day. It is very hot here but almost always a cooling breeze. It is cool in the evening and until 10 a.m. and then it starts heating up. In the middle of the day you feel if you go out in this heat you will conk out. People rest here from noon until about 4 p.m. All the restaurants are outdoors except in the big hotels and I do not care for them. There are many places you can stay on the island for under $2 a night with breakfast included. We are going to a nearby island called Symi for a few days then back here for awhile. The temperature in Athens these days is over 105 degrees so no way I would like to stay there. Many young kids here with sleeping bags sleeping on the decks of the ship on overnight trips. It took us 22 hours on the ship to get here on The Knossos. These kids eat bread and fruit and if we had sleeping bags we would do the same.
Each morning we visit a local bakery and we buy hot rolls and have them with fruit and jam. We know the baker now so he smiles at us. He has a perpetually runny nose!
Love Mum
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