So with our latest guests gone home Joseph and I took to a couple days of relaxing. I spent most of the day sleeping. When I woke up Joseph suggested we bike to the local beach for a swim. It was great. Now mostly every beach in Greece has cute little tavernas on them, kinda local beach bars. This beach had about 5 of them. We picked the last bar on the end and sat in the lounge chairs. We bought a drink each and I had packed sandwiches. The water was beautifully warm. We swam, ate, and fell asleep! When we were sleeping the waves had grown a bit bigger. Now there is no real tide in the Mediterranean but the water level does go up and down just A little. While we were sleeping a gentlemen woke me to tell me to move our stuff (bag, joe's hat, shoes) up cause of the water. When we were ready to leave, Joseph could not locate his glasses. I did not see them in the hat, I would have assumed he put them into the backpack...nope! Glasses gone... Below is a picture of Joseph in his safety glasses that he was subject to wear for the week while we waited for a new pair. He kept trying to hold my hand on public...I pretended not to know him...hahaha
While we had to wait in Poros for the glasses we decided to rent a car and drive to Navplion to find a suit for Joseph and his brother Fergus to wear for the wedding. We had a wonderful day seeing some beautiful sights and also found a suit !
Navplion is a large town of mostly 18th and 19th -century buildings, mainly two and three storied houses shuttered and balconied. There is rich vegetation and narrow cobbled streets that wind in and out of modest mansions and less modest public buildings, many of them are built in a golden sandstone that seems to absorb colour from the sun. I found out that Navplion was briefly the Capitol before Athens was choosen. Below is the castle /fort
Enjoying lunch on the water...
After lunch and securing a suit we decided to drive a bit more. We ended up at the Corinthian Canal. We stopped and had a drink and watched the boats go through. Great end to a nice day out.
So in Greece and many other parts of the world one can charter a boat with a captain and sail around the coast. When there are many boats together that meet every night in the same port they call it a floatilla. Now one of the biggest companies is Navigara. There were over 20 sailboats full of 18 to 20 year olds. This floatilla was especially wild.
All the boats moored in front of us in Poros
After we were situated with ordering the glasses and had a road trip a very nice captain Johnathan who runs a ASA sailing school invited us out to his mooring ball to hang for a couple days.
A picture of Johnathan's K 3 moored next to Zimbabalooba.
Sunset photo.. Grilling up tuna!
This is a picture of our neighbor, the Guy from Belgium in his thong!
Sunset was beautiful
Poros by night from our dingy....
As we were crossing the bay one night in our dingy we had this spaceship approach us.
It was the strangest vessel I have ever seen. The whole top of it was covered with solar panels. Later on we learned that it is the MS Turanor Planetsolar: world's largest solar- powered boat
It arrived in Southern Greece to participate in an ambitious underwater survey that will seek traces of what could be one of the oldest human settlements in Europe.
We left Poros on Thursaday and headed towards Athens. Once again we were so lucky to have met some wonderful new friends. Johnathan the captain and his deckhand Lex from Holland. All around nice guys and amazing sailors.
Poros in the rear view ...
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