Hot Hot Hot

Today is our last full day on the island of Rhodes.  If I had to describe our visit here in one word, it would be: overwhelmingly swelteringly impossibly oppressively stiflingly hellishly fucking HOT.  During the day, it’s 47 degrees Celsius, or 116 degrees Farenheit.  At night, it cools off to 34 degrees Celsius, or 93 degrees Farenheit.  When the breeze blows, it feels like you’re standing over an open oven.

Our villa has no air conditioning.  It is brutal.  We have devised various tricks to combat the heat, including:

  1. taking cold showers every 8 minutes
  2. never drying off
  3. wetting the sheets with cold water
  4. freezing the sheets (in the freezer)
  5. moving the beds outside
  6. not speaking to each other
  7. wearing wet towels as clothing

Today is cooler.  Hopefully the next weeks will bring cooler weather.

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    It's a comfortable 63 in the people's republic of massachusetts. I'm living my own hell here--unpacking, dealing with painters, and sitting at the DMV for over 2 hours only to have my license change rejected! When do you come back to the states?
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    Chris....yes the Greek's disregard for the environment is so true. When Papouli would toss trash irresponsibly, Yiayia would say, "Bill, do you think you are in Maritsa??" However, his trip I didn't notice such blantant disregard. The toilets were much cleaner that I recall. We really need to research why their system can handle TP. I would find this interesting, more so than some of the other "blather" you include in your "blog". What about why Greeks are so impatient, short-tempered and let their every emotion emote??? There is no sense of "the customer is always right" in Greece. What aboutwhy they are so generous with themselves and their things when they don't have very much. The Satti's couldn't believe the spread my poor relatives put out ...."when they don't even know us". Robbie and Chris were also very impressed with the fact that women still are expected to do all housework and wait on the males continually. Why hasn't feminism caught on in Rhodes? Research that. See you soon, Love, MOM
 
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