Time to drive

MONDAY 17^th NOVEMBER

A repeat of yesterday’s weather and when it did improve it wasn’t suitable for kite flying.  Keith thought this was a good time for me to learn to drive on the right and so I headed up to Preveli Monastery knowing there would be very little, if any, traffic on this road.  We stopped in the deserted car park at the Monastery and looking over the walls heard the sound of a car horn beeping in what we thought was Morse code.  We couldn’t see anything other than the movement of a large flock of goats.  The noise stopped and then began again, and the flock began to move, and we decided this must be the way the farmers are now herding their animals. 

I made a stop at a small church located between the Lower and Upper Monasteries where the builder has incorporated an ancient marble slab, dated 1846, as a feature in the wall where a spring emerges.  He has also formed an arch in the lower section of the stonework that formed the steps leading up to the now padlocked gate.  Such a shame we could not investigate further if only to find out which Saint the church is dedicated to.