A New Beach Experience ........

After some pre-holiday research, Darrell discovered that the sunbeds at our resort are run and managed by the local council and as such were a tad on the expensive side, at around 19 euros for two beds, a sunshade and (new to us) a safe, where usually we'd pay around 12 euros per day dans Greece.  

However, Darrell, bless him, found us an alternative, to wit a beach hire shop, where two loungers, a parasol (that we could situate anywhere on the beach we wanted), plus a sand anchor, would only cost us 39 euros for the week.

Well, it seemed a no brainer (in theory), leaving us a few more euros for an extra, cheeky, sangria or two.  

How simple could it be? 

It would be a new type of holiday experience, so off we trotted (before it got too hot), to collect everything .......  

It was all very new and a bit of a novelty and perhaps in our holiday excitement we hadn't really thought through all the logistics .......

 ...... as in getting everything, as well as our bags, up to our fifth floor room etc. in the heat, at the end of the day, then doing it all in reverse in the morning. 

But we were in buoyant mood, no one was going to rain on our parade (or parasol) ........ what could possibly go wrong?