Lindos, Greece is truly lindo (beautiful in Spanish)

After an hour bus ride from Rhodes City we arrived at the quaint and picturesque town of Lindos.  We had an issue finding our hotel.  It turned out the name of the owner was more recognizable than the hotel’s name.  Going up and down hilly streets with a backpack in a hot day is not the most auspicious way to start a vacation.  Eventually we arrived at our hotel, which in all fairness had an amazing view of the town and adequate accommodations.  It did not have a lobby or anyway to get in touch of the owner if you didn’t have a cell phone.  The promised wi-fi did not work and the pool and advertized facilities were a few minutes away in a larger hotel.

The owner suggested we leave the money for the hotel on the little table provided to eat snacks.  He said, would pick up the next day.  We were not about to pay him and we were strategizing how to find other accommodations.  No internet made it difficult and we gave up and decided to make the best out of the situations.  On the plus side, it was cheap and the hotel seemed to welcome us as one of their own.  We spent some time at the hotel and ate our first breakfast by the pool. 

The next day, George the owner came by to collect the rent and made a much better effort to be charming.  He fixed the wi-fi and showed me how to reset it in the future.  He had lived in the States until age 11 but seemed to be 100% Greek .  He told us all about the Greek Orthodox church, which he attended faithful once a year for Easter.  We suggested Christmas but he emphatically denied he attended Church then.  He asked for a good guest review of his hotel.  I think if you think of the place as a “self-catering” residence, you can be more positive.  Over-all it worked fine for our purposes.

The town of Lindos is like no other I have ever seen.  There are no streets as we know them.  There are paths that are narrow and used primarily for walking and bikes, but the occasional car or truck  ventures forth, with little regard for pedestrians.

When the cruise ships land, there are thousands of extra people creating quite a mayhem.    There is a beautiful cove and beach and an impressive Acropolis on a hill.  There are tons of restaurants and cafes and lots of shops, mostly souvenir vendors.  The restaurants have a roof terrace and the view and ambiance is very pleasant.

I decided to cut my hair and a very nice young woman, mother of twins cut it for me.  She told me the majority of people work in Lindos for 7 months and then go back to whatever village they are from and don’t work there.