Exploring with friends

Sunday 2nd November

We have been having trouble with the brake and abs warning lights on the dashboard so Keith returned the car to the hire firm returning with the same model, in fact the one we hired last year. We remembered the mark when we got too close to a wire fence! 

 

Nothing too energetic in the lovely weather so a walk around the olive groves in Lefkogia seemed a good idea. We stopped to look at the ugly turkey displaying his feathers to an even uglier looking one, checked out the blackberries but decided with the lack of rain they were too small to pick, watched a very large green caterpillar move across the very pebbly track, disturbed several birds of prey before arriving at the site of the newly constructed villas. 

Many of them, especially the large detached ones, are occupied but Julia and I found one that we could take a look at through the patio door.  Very small inside but with a large garden and swimming pool.  The price has disappeared on  the advertising board but the price now includes electric floor heating, satelitte TV, solar heating,  and white goods.  Not sure I would want a swimming pool but they look nicer than the boxes being built in Plakias.

We stopped for lunch in one of the small tavernas in the village of Lefkogia before returning to Plakias via the harbour.  We were just in time to see a passenger on one of Tassamanolis' small fishing boats lift a large fish secured on a pole out of the water.  The local people on the small jetty seemed very impressed.

We ate up at 'Kastro' tonight so Keith could watch the last of this season's Grand Prix races.  We all  celebrated when Lewis Hamilton became the youngest and first black man to be a World Champion.