Десять дней отдыха ten days of rest

I recently stayed at this hotel with my wife. Our room was small, cozy and clean, cleaning and change of towels every third day. Downstairs there is a shop, in principle, everything you need is there, although we preferred to buy cheese, olives and wine in another shop. Cheese was bought from goat and sheep milk, young wine was taken in small bottles of 0.5 liters, all this was simply incomparable. We went a couple of times to local taverns, ordered seafood and Greek salad, portions are average, mostly we bought vegetables, fruits and everything else and cooked on the terrace in the room. The owner of the hotel, Anastasia, and her husband are very friendly people, which can not be said about their children, son and daughter, they served us breakfast, every morning with a disgruntled expression and once unwell. As for the breakfast itself, every morning fried eggs, two thin slices of cheese and four hams. But a mountain of all kinds of jam in small packs, which we don’t really eat, well, we still constantly put them on the table. On the third day, their coffee machine broke down (our morning cappuccino was gone), the rest of the time they served diluted nescafe, then we bought an electric kettle and coffee ourselves.
The beach is very close, but dirty, there is a lot of rubbish lying around, there are also a lot of people, especially on weekends, the local Greeks themselves come, they mostly shit there. We went swimming a little to the side, but the stones already begin there and you can’t go into the water without slippers.
We didn’t take a guide and a trip tour, but walked 800 meters along the beach to the Poseidon Hotel and rented a car there for three days, the price is 40 EUR per day, including insurance. We visited Olympus (just super) drove to Thessaloniki, there is not much to see there, a few ancient ruins in the city and a white tower, but I really liked the Basilica of St. Demetrius. By the way, they bought a SIM card for the Internet (vodafone 8GB-10EUR) because wifi in the hotel practically did not work.

In general, I got the impression that everything was done in such a way as to tie you to the hotel and book tours only from them. When asked by the guide what is nearby and where to go, we were told there was practically nothing and in general it would be better not to order tours from others, it would be twice as expensive, where to rent a car they answered that they didn’t know, but what good local wine they said they don’t drink. So, thanks to the car, we saw many sights, visited many cities, bought gifts for children and relatives at normal prices.
Last year we were in Rhodes, where we liked it much more.