Then the most relaxing part of our holiday began. We spend five days on two very little Greek islands. 206 people live on Schinoussa, Donousa instead has 263 inhabitants. Petroula recommended these islands to us because even for Greeks they are very unknown and therefore less touristy.
In Schinoussa camping is forbidden. So we slept with our mattresses and sleeping bags directly at the beach. During the day there were some locals around us but at night we had the whole beach to ourselves. We ate, swam, snorkelled, read, chilled, made music and had very good home made wine from a restaurant close by. At the second day we already had kind of a cozy home. Hans „organised“ a solar lamp and some pillows and life couldn’t´t be easier these days. Then we took a ferry to Donoussa. There´s a free camping site and we were excited to meet some new people. But what happened there was kind of strange. There were quite a lot of young alternative people, most of them from Greece, but also some internationals. When we arrived, we immediately felt weird. Nobody said „Hallo“ or anything to us and the whole atmosphere was spooky. The people were sitting in front of their tents, nobody talked, made music or other things you would expect, when a bunch of alternative people come together at the end of the world. We built up our tent and went to the beach bar at the evening. Also it was not easy to come in touch with the people but we tried hard and met finally a guy from Denmark and one from Greece. We asked them what´s the problem with these people on the island and they explained to us that they really try to do nothing. And doing nothing really means doing nothing. So we got an idea as to the reason why everybody was so closed. The people who made vacation there probably didn’t want to experience something, they just want to be on their own. But after two nights we were happy to travel further on to Albania. We left Greece with mixed feelings. First thing: we spent a third of our money in that one week. The buses an ferries were expensive and also when we went in bars we spent plenty of money. Second problem: the Greeks. We met some really friendly people but if you compare it with the Balkan countries the most of them are closed and unfriendly. Salesmen in shops and barkeeper most times ignore you at the beginning. Then they are pissed off if you want to buy something from them or if you have a question. But all in all we had a very relaxing week, perfect weather and overall lot´s of fun. Next Stop Tirana!
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