Apart from the lovely host family the staff
included Nemo who despite his maritime name was afraid of water.
Nemo never got to lie still for long because he had to follow his
"master" where ever he went.
Wayward as he was he only let you touch him if he wanted you to.
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First stop of the day was Spoa. A strange town we thought.
There were many empty houses both newly build and decayed.
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When
we walked into town we saw a small local taverna and decided to visit
it on the way back but in the middle of the town we found this little
kafeneion.
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The
owner was a real nice guy. We had a long talk about the town, the
people, emigration, taxes, prices of food and gas. (The price of gas
was about €2.2 ~ 16 Danish kroner)
Many Karpathians had left for the USA and came back once a year.
The emigrants would build a house in town for their children who only
came
home once in a while so therefore many of the houses were uninhabited.
Most of the things in the kafeneion were old family things e.g. sticks
for spinning silk yarn.
The only thing that was not from the island was the deer.
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We drove down to Agios Nicholaos to have lunch and a swim.
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I
felt like having Gavros (fried sardines) but they didn't have them.
They only had Serdelles (which is also sardines). These sardines were
salted and put in olive oil. They were really salty. Luckily I had also
ordrered Greek Salat which took away a bit of the salty taste.
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On the way home we visited Apella Beach. Our guide had
praised the beach as one of the best on the island.
It was nice, men the beaches at Finiki and Lefkos were better in our
opinion.
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We
agreed to try to make a short cut to town by walking along the beach
from the hotel. Even if it was hard and difficult to walk in the sand
at times the trip took less than half the time it took along the main
road.
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The Greek aren't always up to date - not even when it comes
to football
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We walked along the beach home again. There was plenty of
light.
Just beneath our hotel the beach was filled with big stones and
diffucult to walk on so we had to leave the beach and follow the road.
We agreed to try the beachway anyway so we went back to the beach and
made a short cut through a closed lunch taverna. It worked
out fine until the theft alarm started. We left the place in a haste
and followed the road for the rest of the way. .
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In
Taverna Sardeles they showed the match between The Netherlands
and England. I cheered for the dutch guys along with all the other
people in the taverna. There were quite a few dutch on the island.
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