Day 0152

Beach for a couple of hours then retreated home to bed. Feeling very suboptimal indeed. There's also a lot of guilt that I'm in a beautiful new place but can't face exploring it. Also exhibited the contemptible cowardice of not wanting the guy on reception to know I was in bed all day so tried to be quiet and kept the light off in the evening until he left. Bizarre, avoidant behaviour!

Had just enough energy to book a flight from Athens to Milan, but not enough to face going through with the subsequent logistics. It's a lot of mental energy figuring everything out, narrowing down from so many options. Anyway looks like I'll end up getting a ferry from the islands up to Athens in the next few days, then off to Florence via Milan.

Had an incredibly traumatic, vivid, twisted nightmare last night. I had no idea my brain had such a ready capacity for horror.

All in all, not the ideal start to my time in Naxos.