Grande Grotta

after missing almost every rest on IVI, I did it second try: I really need to get better at finding knee bars if I want to climb any of the long routes in the cave. Here I am after climbing it:


Shortly after, we watched a dutch guy onsight the massive and impressive Priapos.

We had dinner at the "White Snapper". It was very busy: within half an hour of sitting down the restaurant was completely full. The woman running the restaurant (the ONLY one!) ran over to the telephone, yelled a few words into the phone and rushed off back to the kitchen. Five minutes later an older Greek woman powered up the steps to the restaurant. She walked into the main room, said "Good evening everyone! ", patted a french guy on the back, picked up an armful of menus and notepad and got to work. Grandma had been called in.

The restaurant was completely filled with climbers and there was a pleasant international atmosphere. A Greek couple was behind us, a table of Swiss guys was across from us, an Italian couple was also behind us and out on the patio were german, dutch and french groups. The Italians were kind of funny b/c the woman had a fancy fleece jacket with Mont Blanc and Himalyan expedition patches, but asked to move inside because it was too cold!

Later on, back at the apartment the electricity went out in Massouri, and I thought about the poor restaurant staff down in Massouri with a restaurant full of hungry climbers sitting there in the dark. Then I re-focused my attention on remembereing where the toilet was and trying not to pee all over the bathroom.