Today dawned misty and drizzly - in Cornwall we call this mizzle. It wasn't too much of an issue in the morning, and in fact we were hoping for some stormy excitement after the previous evening, but the storms bypassed us and the mizzle continued, past the point of being able to stay indoors...
We knew that it was likely to clear up later on in the day, but the more pressing issue was that we had to find lunch. We'd done our usual thing of looking up the nearest supermarkets/grocery shops on Google, and the nearest one was apparently expensive and without much of a range, whereas the nearest reasonable one was a 20 minute walk away. So we headed out in full wet weather gear.
Even in the rain we could appreciate the lovely houses and vineyards lining the road and dotted up the hillside. This area was a little off the main tourist strand and it was peaceful and calm. The supermarket was also clearly geared for locals rather than tourists, and short of worrying whether our Mastercard would work (we didn't have anything else with us!), we were happy that we would find what we needed - which we did, buying lunch, dinner and breakfast and a local bottle of wine for around £14.
Then it was back to the accommodation for lunch and another few hours sitting around waiting for the weather to clear up. We weren't too worried about seeing much of the local area as we'd seen a lot of it the day before on our journey. The one place we were hoping to visit was some underground caves that you could boat in, but we'd checked their website and seen that booking in advance was recommended. Unfortunately there were no tickets remaining for any of the days we were there, so that put paid to that plan. So no real rush to go out, and even after the sun came out, the kids still wanted to play in the pool, so we had a relaxing afternoon and a bit of a chat about what we were going to do when we return to 'real life'.
I was starting to get a bit twitchy by dinner time, so straight after dinner we headed down to the lakeside. We walked through a wine festival which is running for most of this month, but decided to check it out on the way back, and carried on to the pier through a maze of food stands and the usual tourist shops. On the way Felix and Jowan got some slushies, while Lowenna spent more time deciding what she wanted for dessert.
It was nice and cool on the pier, with plenty of people watching and boat watching to do. While we were there, a few of the 7.30pm sunset cruises departed, and we watched the (quite large) boats leaving the pier. Then we decided to head back to the wine festival, and on our way there Lowenna finally decided on a Kurtoskalac - we were going to share one (even though they were a bit smaller than the ones we'd eaten previously), but she wanted a vanilla sugar one to herself, while me and James opted for a cinnamon sugar one. We then walked around the wine stalls to decide which wine we wanted to try, and ended up going for a dry rose which was very nice. The listed price was 500Ft for 100ml, quite expensive by our standards, but we were surprised when the bill came to 2200Ft - turns out we had to pay a deposit for the glasses...
We found a picnic bench and the boys went off to the park while we enjoyed our cakes and wine. Lowenna polished off her (large) cake surprisingly quickly and wanted to start on ours! Then she hopped off to the park as well, leaving us to enjoy the wine and the band who had just popped on stage. A bit loud, but they didn't play for long. Once we'd finished the wine, we returned the glasses, rounded up the kids and headed over to our last stop of the day, the dodgems that Lowenna had spotted the day before. Her and Jowan shared a dodgem for the price of 1000Ft, and then it was time to head back, tired and ready to head off to Croatia the following day!
Published on Tuesday 24 July 2018
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