PART TWO: A FEW RANDOM THOUGHTS TO START THINGS OFF (WITH MAYBE A BIT OF ROOM TO MANOEUVRE... WHATEVER ?)

 A FEW RANDOM THOUGHTS TO START THINGS OFF.
(WITH MAYBE A BIT OF ROOM TO MANOEUVRE... WHATEVER ?)

It's daylight outside...
Better haul ourselves out of bed and see what we've got ourselves into, hadn't we.
First things first, shower and find a few clothes we hadn't travelled in.
Make the first coffee of the day with the accoutrements the staff had left next to the room kettle.
You know the thing, paper tube of coffee, a couple of tubes of sugar and baby sized cartons of milk.
That'll do for now because breakfast is calling, if my stomach is anything to go by, but before we go,
what's the room like ?
Clean for starters, practical as well.
Wardrobes on the right as you come in, with bathroom opposite to the left.
Walk into the main room and the bed is on the left and the television hanging on the wall
to the right above a long bench set with the kettle on top and a refrigerator inset at floor level.
Past the beds and a small round table with two small wooden chairs to the left.
Keep on moving and the patio doors to the balcony are in front of you, and as already noted,
there's a small table and two chairs out there when one wants to take the air.
So I'd definitely describe the room as adequate and functional.
It's definitely big enough for the pair of us for a week, anyway.

Along the corridor and downstairs to the main reception bit and then walk a little further and
down a spiral staircase and we're in the dining room.

Jeezus !  It's rammed with people, all of whom seem to be doing balancing acts with plates
with food on...
Trying to find a table is difficult. We'll definitely have to get here earlier in the future.
Finally we find a two-seater and plonk ourselves into the chairs.
We've got clean cutlery so it's just a question of which of us goes first until we've sussed it out.
Haddy takes the first run...
It's all self service from a large buffet style area with fruit and salad'y things against the wall behind
the buffet table.

There's a guy doing fried eggs and omelettes as you wait, over in the corner and at the
other end of the room is the coffee/hot water machine for tea's and coffee's.
Mine's a 'Flat White' and Haddy's is an 'Expresso' so we're sorted.  

 

There's very little in the way of English being spoken, or so it seems currently.
I have no idea what language seems to be taking precedent at the moment, but spotting
somebody wearing a sweat shirt with CCCP on, it would seem that the Complete Cock-Sucking
Cunt Putin's are taking over...
In other words, most would seem to be Russian.
Haddy's gone for omelette and salad with a bit of fruit and I've gone for the omelette with beef and
chicken sausage, and as we eat, we look around to observe our neighbours...    

I suppose shock is the word that comes to mind most easily.
Complete and utter shock.
Absolute piggery is the phrase I would use to describe what we observed, that and complete
and utter shock that people could be that greedy.
Wherever you looked, people were piling food onto their plates until some would fall off in protest
at having to balance atop something else...
People might have been piling it onto their plates, but they weren't eating it all so you couldn't say it was
because they were starving, as at least a third of it was being left on their plates when they'd get up
to leave, sometimes more...
Christ !  It was horrible to see, and all the restaurant staff could do was bin the leftovers.
Sheer piggery and such a waste.
It made the pair of us feel quite ill, and we were only watching it.
It was horrible to see, given that half the world is starving...
Ugh !  It still makes me so angry just to have witnessed it.
And it's all age groups. Old, young, they were all at it.
It makes you wonder how far down humanity has sunk when you witness it.
Sheer absolute greed, and the winner is the one with the most on their plate.
And you can't even avert your eyes, it's the table next to us on either side,
the table behind us, the table here, the table there...
Definitely not nice to have seen it, and we've got another six days of it to witness...

Finally, we've choked down ours and it's time to leave and do a bit of exploring...
So, where to go first ?
Around the hotel seems to be favourite, but where to start.
We overlook one of them, so we'll start with the swimming pools of which we've seen three
so far, dunno if there are any more, but three will do.

We overlook the 'adult' pool. No children allowed in it.
The children's pool is the other side of the road down to the beach and has slides and heaven
knows what around it. Ours just has sunloungers and a bar area to one side.

The other one we've seen is just outside the dining area and is slightly smaller than the bigger one
that our room overlooks.

And if you can't get a sunlounger, and you seem to have to get up very early to get one,
then you can sit on the bar's terrace which is above the dining room.
It's all quite sprawling in layout, but it seems to be easy to get to where you'd like to go.
I think we're just going to chill by the pool today.
Mainly because we're still both a bit knackered from the flight...