Arhi

Went to Arhi to climb today. The Greek guy who put up the famous route Aegialis was there, and we had a somewhat stilted conversation in which he would speak in spanish and we would try to figure out what he said (He didn't speak any english or french) and reply in french. He's a really nice guy and let me climb on his draws to suss out the climb called "Eros" and gave me tons of info on how to do the moves. Meanwhile a south african woman was regaling us with her hyperbolic descriptions of the movements she did on Il Pittore (the climb we warmed up on), "You have the gooooorgeous but wickedly shhtrenuous crossthrough... it's quite looovely reaallly".

Later on, when it got too hot we walked down to the bay for some deep water soloing and jumping into the water. It was a perfect way to cool off.

We had dinner at the family restaurant in Armeos, and on the way out saw a procession of cars heading to an adjacent restaurant. They were honking horns in a "just married" kind of way, but we really knew it was a wedding when there was a thundering explosion above the restaurant from a dinameet stick exploding. And yes, it was the good stuff: a white puff of smoke remained twenty feet above the restaurant. The thing that got me was that you'd have to be pretty damn sure that the fuse was the correct length and you didn't shank it in some weird direction or well.. Bad Things would happen. I wonder if there are specialist dinameet throwers who you can hire for a wedding? "No guests maimed or your money back!".