[oldwasp, 12.07.2008] This was the first holiday abroad for my wife and I 1988, so at the time we had little experience of beaches abroad. We stopped in a hotel called the Iliessa and you could walk out of the hotels grounds straight onto the beach. My wife was not a competent swimming at the time and the pool did not have a shallow end, so she would not go into it. She dreaded the thought of going into the sea as she was unsure if s [more]