Let's go to the beach let's go catch a wave (aug 5)

We changes it up from the city scene and went out to the island of Lido. Lido is almost entirely beaches, so i soaked up the sub while handwriting my journal entries and reading for Croatia.

I had pizza and a drink at the beach-side bar, and while I read alone at the table (baye went biking instead) a guy asked if he could have the seat across from me (I was taking up a 4 person table in the patio) He worked for costa cruise lines ad an engineer, and I asked him to tell me about the crash and also about the rumours of being taken over by pirates. It was hard to understand with language barriers/thick accents but still interesting.
He invited me to play "beach ball", a common beach sport in Europe I'd seen a few times on he beach in Barcelona, too. Ira basically ping pong in the air (with no net or anything) but with bigger pAddles and a heavier rubbery ball that looks like a squash ball but bouncier. Another thing European beaches have a lot of: topless women and men in speedos, both regardless if age or body type.

That night, as planned, Baye and I set out for a supermarket, picked up a bottle of cheap red wine (~€4) and each got things to picnic on. We had trouble locating a grocery store and stopped to ask waiters who were standing on the street waiting for customers. One offered to walk is because it was close. At first we were very thankful for his niceness, but by the end I'd the night we were joking about things we wouldve rather done (such as pee our pants) to get him off our backs. He just didn't stop talking!! He wanted to teach us more Italian words, and have us teach him English, which would've been cool if it weren't so annoying. He kept listing countries, asking if we'd heard if them, and was always shocked when we had. And if we kept silent during conversation, implying we werent interested in the topic, he would just keep rambling until we replied.

Our Romantic picnic on the side of the canal near the brick wall garden was spoiled, cause he followed us there. I still had a nice cheap dinner of fresh bread, salami, and sweet cherry tomatoes, but would've been better watching the night boats pass in silence (with the exception of the music from the neighbouring restaurant of course).

We finally got home to wait for a shower and do laundry (which we've been forced to do every day in this stinkin heat), and slept to the sounds of crickets :)