Here I am,
Past days I was on trip around Arillas and then on my way home.
First of all, I'm sorry for my didactic phrases, but I was writing on a mobile and it's not all that conmfort.
Jackson, it's I write very little on this forum but I read a lot, my first post is about 2wo years ago, when I totally fell in love with Arillas... and one of that post was in the Italian forum (Val n Bill: my english is very far to be so good, don't know wich kind of italian do you met since now... maybe they were greek...)
JohnTheRef&Dot: you got the point.I know that it's impossible to keep all, always clean; but I've loved Arillas becaus it was really clean and with very few people...this year I've found too much people, too much umbrellas on the beach and too much close each others (I know there's the far, free (nudist?) beaches, but on holidays I don't want to bring my own suncharis and umbrellas, I don't want to walk away from bars, *I don't want so many people around me and I don't want cigarettes buts around me*. Arillas in 2012 and 2013 has ALL the things that I want, but this year no, now Arillas its a cute greek village, no more a unique paradise.
This year we stayed at the Bakery Apartments (near Rainbow/Marvel): basically they have just one big defetct: the renter/owner doesn't live there; so, when you are on the beach, the house its empty with nobody to take a look. So someone forced a bad-closed blind and get in our room. I think (and it is ONLY my thought) that was someone (tourist or not) that well-known the house (and the blind that you cannot properly close) beacause from the road you cannot see almost nothing of the house.
In the end, I know that tourist can dirt a little the beach and Arillas people do their best to keep it clean; but when on a beach you see people (with the ashtray attached on their umbrella!!!) that smoked a cigarette, make a hole in the sand, put the butt in and cover it... and they speak greek!!! Even if they (maybe) also are tourist in Arillas, let me feel very downhearted
Paul D: I love the sea, always clean and clear, I love the sunsets and, only past two years, I've love the quiet, equipped, beach that made me feel ultra-relaxed (but this year no, I think just because umbrellas where too close and always you have someone yelling around).
Of course, I love many others things but you can find them all over the greece. I spend all my holydays in Greece since 2003, my sister live in Athens and I'm at her house 2 o 3 times a-year... I' can really say that I love Greece and the greek mood... )