Island life

PLAY...
We visited Zakynthos, one of the Greek island this last weekend. Getting there was quite a journey, we had to take a ferry across the river to Rio, then a bus to Patras (20 min.), then another bus to Killini (was sold out so we had to wait in Patras for 4 hours), then a ferry to the island of Zakynthos. When we got to the main port on the Island, the buses had all stopped running so we had to catch a cab to our hotel which was about 7 minutes away. It was dark by the time we go there. Much to our surprise, the hotel we had spent much time picking out on the internet before our trip WAS CLOSED FOR THE SEASON!!! We were confused and were just wondering around the hotel grounds knocking on doors and searching for someone. Soon, a nice women came and motioned for us to follow her. She took us to the Petrol station where there was another women who did not speak English. They talked it over for awhile and decided it was best to bring us across the street to the bar where there was a person who spoke both Greek and English. Long story short, they worked it out and were accommodating enough to open up a room for us.
The next morning we woke up eairly and wondered over to one of the many car rental shops. We rented a little Kia for the day which only set us back 20 Euro. We spent the whole day driving around the island, which is not too big. It was relaxing. We were informed by one of the bartenders that in the summer the streets are just filled with people. Now, it is the last week of the season and the streets are empty. Like our hotel, many places had already closed down.
The Next day was spent pretty much like the first day but backwards. We had much trouble finding the bus back to Rio though, who know one town could have so many #6 buses?!

WORK...
We started the olive harvest today! It is a lot of hard work but good. We use a method the involves beating the tree with a stick, kinda theraputic actually. Dimitris, our host, says we will get to see how the olive oil is made and how to pickle the olives. He had 135 trees and today we harvest 6, we have quite a ways to go.