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Day 3: Palaiochora Morning Exercise

July 9, 2021July 10, 2024, Trip Reports
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This post is part of a series called Greek Odyssey 2021
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  • Day 63: Sifnos Cloudy First Day
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  • Day 60: Relaxing on Sikinos
  • Day 59: Ios to Sikinos
  • Day 58: Ios Last Full Day
  • Day 57: Ios Psathi Beach and Palaiokastro
  • Day 56: Ios Chill Day
  • Day 55: Ios Agia Theodoti Beach
  • Day 54: Exploring South Ios Magganari Beach
  • Day 53: Naxos to Ios
  • Day 52: Exploring Naxos by Car
  • Days 50-51: Agia Anna
  • Day 49: Relaxing in Agia Anna / Plaka Beach
  • Day 48: Island-Hopping Continues: Aegiali, Amorgos to Agia Anna, Naxos
  • Day 47: Kos to Amorgos
  • Day 46: Kos Final Full Day
  • Day 45: Last Gym Session on Kos
  • Day 44: Moving Hotel Room Part 2
  • Day 43: Moving Hotel Room
  • Day 42: Visiting Tigaki
  • Days 38-41: Living Life in Kos Town
  • Day 37: Back to Kos Town
  • Days 34-36: Nothing But The Pool
  • Day 33: Ed Departs, I Remain
  • Day 32: Road Trip (with Ed!)
  • Day 31: Boat Trip with Ed
  • Day 30: Ed Arrives on Kos
  • Day 29: Why I’m Still on Kos
  • Day 28: Kos Town Hotel Move
  • Day 27: Kos Beach Day Again
  • Day 26: Kos Car Hire
  • Day 25: Kos Town Beach Day
  • Day 24: Cutting Tilos Short
  • Day 23: Rhodes to Tilos
  • Day 22: Rhodes Town Beach
  • Day 21: Exploring Rhodes Town
  • Day 20: Rhodes Arrival from Karpathos
  • Day 19: Exploring Karpathos by Car
  • Day 18: Ammopi Beach by Bus
  • Day 17: Karpathos Beach Day…Again
  • Day 16: Karpathos Beach Day
  • Day 15: Karpathos Arrival
  • Day 13: Gortyn, Heraklion and Sitia
  • Day 12: Phaistos and Matala
  • Day 11: Preveli and Agia Galini
  • Day 10: Road Trip Across Crete
  • Day 9: Last Day in Palaiochora
  • Day 8: Last Time at Grammeno Beach
  • Day 7: Elafonissi Beach
  • Day 6: Finally the Wind Dies Down
  • Day 5: Grammeno Beach Again
  • Day 4: Frangokastello, Hora Sfakion and Chania
  • Day 3: Palaiochora Morning Exercise
  • Day 2: Palaiochora and Grammeno Beach
  • Day 1: Crete Arrival
  • Touring Greece Without a Plan
  • An Exciting Journey Begins

Friday 9th July 2021

Jogging in the Heat

I don’t usually exercise on holiday as I lead a very active lifestyle at home and treat vacations as a rest period for the mind and body. However, I plan to be here in Greece for nearly three months and with all the nice food and drink I’m expecting to consume, I want to stay in shape as best I can. To that end, I brought my running gear and woke up early on my third day to see how I would cope with exercising in a hot climate.

Even at 7 am, it was already over 25 degrees Celsius. As I left my air-conditioned room, I immediately felt the heat and hoped it would be bearable – I’d put some suntan lotion on and even doused my cap and vest in cold water to see if it would help.

A short run along the coastline to see how my body coped with the heat!

I hadn’t planned a route or a target pace; I just wanted to get out and see how I felt. It’s been a few weeks since I last ran, and I didn’t want to overdo it and cause an injury. I set off north from the hotel and followed the coastline until I reached the edge of the village at a farmhouse. There may have been a path to go further, but having hit the 1km mark I decided to turn back and be content with doing 2km for my first attempt. The pace wasn’t terrible either. I usually run around 5 minutes/km back home, and this wasn’t too far off.

Still Windy

The wind hadn’t died down from yesterday. It may have even become stronger overnight. While I appreciated the breeze on my run, it didn’t bode well for a day at the main town beach unless we wanted to get sandblasted to pieces! Luckily, we had enjoyed yesterday afternoon at Grammeno Beach, so we decided to return there for the day.

After another nice breakfast, we got our beach gear together and set off in the car just after 9 am, arriving a few minutes later as it’s a very short distance. The morning was spent sunbathing while reading my Kindle and listening to some of my favourite songs on Spotify. In keeping with the exercise theme, I also swam across the bay at Grammeno, which I estimated to be around 500m each way.

A Disappointing Lunch

For food, we took the easy option and tried the taverna just behind our section of the beach. It’s called Choumaz and seemed like a decent enough place. They didn’t start serving food until 12:30, and we arrived just before midday, so we first had to make do with a drink. Once we could order food, I chose a creamy chicken dish with peppers and pineapple. It sounded nice, but the sauce was very lumpy when the food arrived and tasted nowhere near as good as I expected. [It was one of the most disappointing meals of my entire trip.]

As the afternoon wore on, the wind picked up even more and changed direction slightly, so our section of beach was no longer as protected, and we eventually gave up on sunbathing around 3 pm. We agreed to have some rest time at the hotel – in my case, time spent editing my first YouTube video – then met up at five for a coffee and snack.

Golden Hour Sightseeing

Typically, we would eat dinner quite early by European standards – around 7 pm – but with the late afternoon snack, none of us was particularly hungry. Instead, we had another walk around the village and, this time, went up to the castle ruins, where I took more photos and videos.

The eastern coastline of Palaiochora, as seen from the castle
Looking northwest towards the main town beach, again taken from the castle ruins

Eventually, our appetites returned, and we found ourselves at El Greco taverna. We shared some garlic breadsticks for starters; then I had spinach ravioli with cheese and mushrooms, which was very tasty.

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