My training spot today 😍

My training spot today 😍{"type":"customBlock","attrs":{"config":{"asset_ids":[1494]},"id":"mediathekImage"}}It was also nice and empty until 8:30am...the last 30min. it became a training session for spectators...and that was really fuuuunny..."come to the website...can't be bothered to type here...😂" was the announcement in the Telegram channel and ba, ba, ba, baaaaah...since that unfortunately didn't work yesterday and all my time that I spent on this was unfortunately devoured by the "system" and vanished into nirvana, well then here we go again. Even though I spontaneously had to change locations, but more on that in the next post.So I had a fantastic 2-hour training session and although I had the beach to myself at the beginning, it naturally filled up with holidaymakers from the surrounding hotels, apartment complexes, holiday apartments and whatever else there is around here. Funnily enough, my exercises that I was doing on my mat, 2 m from the water, became the "morning program" for the beach visitors. Four of the five women around me were secretly watching, and one kept nudging her husband with each new exercise of mine, and he kept showing me his smiling "thumbs up" and grinning. At the end of the training session, he gave me applause and again his raised thumb with a big grin and "Bravo, Bravo!"! Another man came up to me grinning, and while I was still thinking "No pat on the shoulder please!" I took a step towards him with my hand outstretched in greeting (No, more like between hip and chest height 🤣) and said loudly in German: "Hello, my name is Iven! I do this from time to time and am then mostly alone on the beach!" and before I could invite him to tomorrow's session, he shook my hand with his big grin, pointed at himself, grunted a "Manosz", turned around and walked along the beach. The real highlight though was the 15-member extended family who, because I was probably "doing sports" on their spot from the day before, set up camp no more than 2 meters from me. I basically have nothing against people! 🤣 But I had just had almost 2 hours of the finest sea breeze in my nose, could taste the sun and absorb the scent of the salt rising from the sand, as the sun was already "sizzling" quite intensely. And then 7 different sunscreen scents and the sweat smell of at least 5 of the family members, who were trying to cover it up with various perfumes. That was just toooooo much 😂 Had to skip the obligatory jumping jacks at the end of every training session 🤷‍♂️Well, and after a fine breakfast, a proper one with boiled eggs, toasted bread, tomato salad and delicious jam (I ate something sweet in the morning 🙌) I decided to explore the beach to my right and maybe make it to the ferry port.The challenge now was to survive the 2 tourist "lying areas" on the beach on the way there unscathed. That was intense, because these people were basically in the tightest space, I mean it's a kilometer-long beach, standing, walking, squatting, jumping, lying under this palm and sun roof structure...and watching THEIR loungers when they went to the water or came from it. On a stretch of just under 400 meters I therefore had to perform 16 evasive dance steps or stop abruptly to avoid collisions with the protagonists. 😜 And that doesn't include the number of evasive maneuvers around the children on the beach! 😎 Anyway, I made it and arrived at the port. Watched a few ferries entering and leaving on the way there and watched the people in the beach bars. The closer I got to the tourist center, the more littered the beach became and the more intense the smells of the people who, from my impression, were spraying some "stuff" from pump bottles onto their skin every 5 minutes. WOW that was INTENSE!Oh yeah, me and random encounters with people...when I was at the port and just as a ferry from Thassos was releasing people and cars, I noticed one from which loud music was blaring, probably because the windows were down to get rid of the hot air via the air conditioning. 😎 The driver grinned at me and drove past...only to be standing right in front of me at the bar I'd scoped out on the way there. His white polo had a big print front and back saying "Keramoti against CO2!" naturally with green color applications! And the guy buys, while his SUV hybrid is standing in front of the bar with the engine running, what feels like half the store! The 2 people behind the counter shake, pour, stir, squeeze, spoon...now a coffee-based milk ice product into 5 large plastic cups for him, while his son grabs 3 cans of that disgusting sweet stuff without sugar, whose name I don't intend to give space to here, from the refrigerator. So while we're being "cooled down" in the open bar by air conditioning through fans, get some electro mainstream cover song in our ears and wait for his ice-cold 5 cups of "whatever" to be made transportable in the styrofoam holders, yes he takes 3, since only 2 of his drinks fit in each holder, whereby of course 4 plastic bags are also needed to make all this transportable, he looks at me grinning and I can't help but point to his polo and ask him in English if he stands by what's printed on it!? And boom here we go! Of course, he just came with his family on the ferry from Thassos, since there was an "event" that this movement organized! My grinning thumbs up and the question of why he has his car with the engine running in front of the beach bar doesn't really seem to reach him, because he leans slightly towards me and explains with the chest tone of deepest inner conviction: "It's standing in the blazing sun and when he and his family get in soon, it shouldn't be so hot inside!" I suppress my "snort" and wish him and his family health and a peaceful life! THAT on the other hand got through and he wants to pay for my beer, which I thankfully decline! Me idiot! Standing in line, taking the bottle out of the refrigerator myself and putting it on the bar after waiting 25 minutes to pay 4 euros for it, that's quite something! Comparable to 3,- for a Sterni at a Späti in Berlin...LOL...So I'm sitting in a beach bar at the ferry exit from Keramoti to Thassos, watching the people and wondering, when did we elevate "hypocrisy" to a moral icon? Please help me, because I've forgotten the date! 🤣So the way back, along the beach and I really only took photos of the 6 km where there were no or hardly any people. But in between....masses of people...all in one place! Yes, it's SEASON, I've figured that out 🤓And since I'm a sensitive, delicate person, I naturally also notice when people look at me for a long time or even stare! 😊 And with the day's experiences so far and a beer or two in me, I'm of course even more cheerful than I already am anyway...GRIN...and then it naturally happens several times, when I look at the people on the beach lying and standing around and..., that I intensify my smile and raise my hand in greeting. To be clear...with the "Peace sign" of the right hand! ✌️ The guys mostly nod or indicate a greeting characterized by slightly raising their hand. But their partners, because that's what I assume when they're spending time in pairs on the beach chairs, wave. The faces of the guys were worth every meter that I walked along the beach today 🤓{"type":"customBlock","attrs":{"config":{"asset_ids":[1495]},"id":"mediathekImage"}}{"type":"customBlock","attrs":{"config":{"asset_ids":[1498]},"id":"mediathekImage"}}{"type":"customBlock","attrs":{"config":{"asset_ids":[1497]},"id":"mediathekImage"}}{"type":"customBlock","attrs":{"config":{"asset_ids":[1500]},"id":"mediathekImage"}}{"type":"customBlock","attrs":{"config":{"asset_ids":[1501]},"id":"mediathekImage"}}{"type":"customBlock","attrs":{"config":{"asset_ids":[1502]},"id":"mediathekImage"}}YEPP, a 0.33 liter for four euros...🤪{"type":"customBlock","attrs":{"config":{"asset_ids":[1499]},"id":"mediathekImage"}}And so you know what makes me flinch every now and then while writing, here's a normal "pinecone" that makes quite a boom when it hits Frankie...{"type":"customBlock","attrs":{"config":{"asset_ids":[1496]},"id":"mediathekImage"}}