Ingrid was very keen to go bathing in the pools so we spent most of the day at the hotel. First we tried the “beach” but that pool was unheated and the area around it quite windy, so we all got cold. When I was standing in the shade (to keep Adrian out of the sun) it was so chilly that I used a bath towel as a blanket to keep me warm. We then moved on to the shallow children’s pool, which was much more pleasant: heated and also protected from the wind on three sides. There were inflatable pool toys as well as plastic buckets lying around, so Ingrid loved it.

We had a late lunch, well later than planned: first we wandered around looking for the entrance to the restaurant where we had planned to eat. The hotel is really two hotels in one, and they share a common outdoors area, but indoors facilities can only be reached via the right building. When we finally reached the restaurant (in the “other” hotel) we found out it only served an expensive buffet (mainly aimed at guests on full board) and the restaurant that served a la carte lunches was far away at the other end of the area.

In the afternoon we went for a walk again. Ingrid was happy to walk as long as there were edges, ledges and walls to walk on, or shops to look at, or rocks to climb over. As soon as we ran out of those, her legs “got tired”. And when we found a ledge again, the legs were magically untired again. This time we walked through a few small shopping malls to see what was on offer. (Nothing of interest, really, but we did buy an inflatable pool toy for Ingrid, as well as postcards.)

For dinner we tried an Italian restaurant just across the street from the hotel. Reasonably good food, but too few staff so service was very slow. Because lunch was late, so was dinner. Adrian was so tired that Eric had to skip dinner and go back to the room to put him to bed. Ingrid, too, collapsed as soon as we got back.