Tourism

(above) From left: Kelly, Savannah, Laura, and Jenna with cocktails decked out with sparklers, neon straws and stirrers of naked people.

Rhodes is waaaay more touristy than I thought it would be. Part of that is because we're staying in a really touristy area, where bunches of hotels line the Aegean coastline. Tourism is the major industry of Rhodes. Thursday, we were scheduled to see another antiquity with our guide here, Yorgos. He couldn't do Thursday, though, because tour guides were going on strike. Apparently archeologists want to be able to lead tours too. The guides want the government to allow only them to guide since most aren't certified to do anything else-they feel like another group is encroaching on their livelihood.