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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Live fish and dead skin - Crete and Mykonos

We went to a fish spa.For the uninitiated, - the legs are cleaned and you sit with them submerged in a tank full of small live fish. They look harmless - until you expose your legs to them. The minute the water ripples they rush to your legs and - attack! All the fish move in lightening speed and are nibbling away at parts of your leg. All four of us had a crazy 15 minutes, trying to explain to the fish that we are all ticklish - no go!  They insisted on eating parts of our skin which they thought  were dead, but which we felt were very much alive - and Ticklish!!! Its like a feeling of a strong vibrator singing away on your feet , soles and if you happen to feel ticklish (like we did) and spread your toes apart - then between your toes too! Its a great experience... As long as you dont look down and see them attacking your "dead skin" or think of how razor sharp their teeth might be to cause this kind of vibrations.  We are now in Mykonos.  Mighty silly place to be with one adult child and one teen child! They want to party, we want to party but none of us want to go with the other! There are a number of paradise islands here! All of which promise you the same thing - that you will miss your breakfast!  Mykonos is very very pretty, very very windy, and the sea is very very blue. Infact the sea is many shades.  Nearest to the shore its dark dark blue, then gets lighter blue and blue green and towards the horizon its silver. I have never seen a shade of silver over the sea ever before. I am not having fanciful thoughts- it is actually silver. The waves dance in the wind, the boats bob (some of which make me feel sick, just looking at them!) and the entire effect with the wind playing symphony is hypnotising! Today, on the street shops i read a t shirt which proclaimed - Mykonos fucks Ibiza. I dont know about Ibiza, but Mykonos does do that to your sleep patterns! 

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