FREE DAY IN AEGINA:
Once we arrived on the island of Aegina by boat, Me and Kyara decided to go enjoy the place by ourselves to make it more personal and romantic. But first, we had to do a scavenger hunt on the island. We had to go to the places written in a list from WhatsApp and take a picture of ourselves with the place as a background. After completing the tasks given by Dodge and Dawn and after learning about the history of the buildings, which most of them were sort of ruins, we started to walk through the small town near the port, and after going through small stores, and buying a refreshment from a kiosk, we reached a hill with a beautiful panorama of the place and the view of a beautiful beach, so we decided to go there shortly after. We arrived and got to relax in the beautiful water, the beach was near the port, similar to the one Kane and Dale stayed at, but it looked less tourist and had fewer people. Something amazing about this place was how crystal clear and shallow the water on the beach was. It was amazing, You could go as far from shore as you wanted to and you could still be touching the ground, and the ground was only sand, it looked deserted, and for me, that’s a plus because it’s scary to see the fish and other moving things near me. The water temperature was weird but refreshing nonetheless, if you went into deeper water you could feel it colder, but the water near the shore was a mix between hot and slightly cold.
The food from Aegina was amazing at first and then not so amazing, let me explain why. Basically, at first me and Kyara went to an ice cream and bakery shop near the port that had the most amazing pistachio butter crepes I’ve tried, but after some time of being on the beach and walking a lot we got hungry again so we decided to go to a restaurant were they had a variety of sea foods and pasta. At first, everything seemed great about the service, but after someone came to take our order he seemed impatient and looked at us angrily, we thought nothing of it because we just wanted to eat. I ordered octopus and she ordered pasta with shrimp, and after our food got to us, Kyara’s seemed good, it was a big plate of pasta with tomato sauce, and it had whole shrimp, but they were overcooked or not fresh because it was really dry and had a weird taste, and my octopus was burnt and squishy, and also didn’t taste fresh. We were disappointed but we didn’t say anything because we were hungry and we didn’t want to wait any longer. Near the end of the day, we went to the beach near the port. I went to the water, and Kyara took a nap there for at least an hour. At the end of the day, we went to a store and Kyara bought a Turkish towel after that we got crepes, I got the pistachio butter with chocolate and she got the one with chocolate and pieces of hazelnut, before heading back to the meeting point to go back to Athens.