Naxos Island Adventure: Day one

I just took 3 days and 2 nights away on an island adventure. SUCH a great time! Emily and I took the hour ferry to Naxos...there is nothing quite like walking off the ocean into a city of a culture unexplored with little or no idea what to do first...walk aimlessly...find a place to stay?...eat?...or not really caring...just loving taking in the sights...the old men by the hanging squid...the fishing boats swaying by the dock...the smells of fresh bakery goodness...wondering what those huge beautiful ruins are up to the left......and knowing that soon this city will be a new home and held familiar in my heart. We ended up doing those important things effortlessly throughout the day...we found a market and bought fresh bread, tomato, cucumber, cheese...and aimlessly walking through all the small winding and arcing stone walkways and flowery trellis. We came to a cute little faucet where we sat on the stone steps and washed the veggies and picnic. Our first meal just as quaint as the beautiful city. We made our slow way through more of the winding streets back down to the main road and along the sea...we walked along Saint George Beach which felt like a ghost town...you can imagine the crowds in swimsuits and enjoying drinks...but all that was crowding it was a lonesome dog and a bit of trash. We walked back up and meandered enjoying ourselves, went to the Kastro (Old Town) saw the small Cathedral.
We then found a place to stay....it was getting dark and we walked to it almost by accident but it was the place we were looking for, they were expecting us. We could see the Apollo Temple ruin and sea out the window...25 euro...kinda high but ok. What is funny is that getting ready for this trip I was hung on camping...finding a nice place to just sleep outside...and hence...here is my next journal entry:
December 17th, 2008 10:47PM

Comfortably sitting in a sleeping bag, leaning against the blue window shutter, writing in the dim light pouring out our hotel window. The warm but cool breeze passing over my face and rustling my pages...the dark sea port is blended in the night sky, but for the rocky jetty and the Apollo Temple lit up in the distance. Twinkling lights lining the coast, the rumbling of soft city life all around me. I am filled with 2 veggie Gyros served by a cute, flirty Albanian guy who I have a super crush on now and is the hero in my innocent romantic fantasies while walking through the city night. The buildings are lit up around us and the sea is so close I feel like could reach out and touch it. Im just sitting here, spacing off into the darkness, watching my face silhouette sharply casted on the back wall, so content breathing in this life I am creating. Emily and I walked to find our exciting Mexican Restaurant closed, and instead picked up cheap gyros and ate on the dark sea edge eating delighfully. We then walked toward the Apollo Temple ruins all lit up in the distance...sat down on the way listening to the waves smacking the rocks and watching them pick up the light glittering on their way in...we then found our hotel nestled through the crazy winding streets, which brings me to now...bedding down, ironically our 2 beds are empty as we are sleeping under the open night sky which threats of rain..sprinkling us throughout the evening, on the roof outside our hotel window. I wonder if there is anyone else enjoying the night quite like this tonight..or maybe with their lover on the rooftop? I would like to be able to say...shaw! that's so over rated!...but sadly..not so much my attitude right now...back to my innocent fantasies about Albanian gyro boy :) Buono Notte!