A Low-Key Day at Plaka Beach in Naxos; Lunch at Nomad

A chill day at our house. Awoke to our breakfast “basket” aka three ladies whipping up a massive breakfast spread on our patio table. Teddy exercised with a Peloton video, as he has done every single weekday morning since the pandemic began. This morning he had an audience.

What can I say. It was a vacation day at a villa — we made a sand castle, took a family stroll on the beach (and asked a stranger to take our picture). James threw rocks and found a giant stick/bamboo. We saw our boat from yesterday sail by in the distance. 

But it is HOT here — almost 100 F every day with not a trace of wind. Fine if you’re in the water, but I can’t have my pink little Willer girl out in the sun all day long, even with her mineral 70 SPF and hat. So I rallied everyone again to head out, this time for a (covered) beachside lunch at a place called Nomad. More trendy hotspot than traditional taverna, which was a fun change of pace. Not crowded at all.

The food was very good. In fact, we talked about the fact that we haven’t had a bad meal yet in this country. As Teddy pointed out, that makes it “the opposite of Chile!”

We came home and kept everyone indoors until 4:30 or so — the kids wrote in their journals (begrudgingly) and then Willa worked on The Eleventh Hour, a book I had and loved when I was little, and that she got for her birthday from a school friend. James “helped.” Teddy napped. 

Our evening saw us playing catch and other ball related games in the pool, and eating a dinner made up of hummus, cheese, crackers, olives, etc. My kind of meal!! The kids are amused by my impersonation of French people speaking English. I have two versions: The first is of a French person who isn’t trying in the slightest to do an American/English accent — just saying the English words as if they were French words. Picture your typical jerk cafe waiter in Paris circa 1985. The second is a young French hipster living in 2021 Brooklyn desperate to sound/act American. I have this one down so well. Both crack Willa and James up.

Early to bed tonight — tomorrow we have our second boat outing!