Up
early to catch the 8:30 sea bus into town and then get on the 10am boat to
Delos. It all worked out fine and
we even had a chance to have a coffee in town.
We
had chosen to have a guided tour of the site. It is huge. In
a way the 3 hours we had wasn’t really enough. However, it was also quite hot and tiring. In fact we could have stayed on
ourselves and taken the last ferry back 1 ½ hours later, but we were too
exhausted to do that. Maybe we
should go back one day. I still
think Pompeii is more exciting, but this was really unusual. The problem is that the locals after
hundreds of years took much of the marble and stonework at the site to use to
build on Mykonos. So things aren’t
as intact as they are in say Pompeii which was just buried after the
eruption. Anyway it was very
worthwhile.
Back
in town we had a bite of lunch of the sea front and then tried to go to the Archaeological Museum. Our guidebook said it was open until 4pm, but when we got there
at 3:05 we found it closed 5 minutes earlier. So we make our way back to the marina on the sea bus. I did a little shopping at the small
supermarket here. We really
haven’t decided what to do tomorrow.
When we came here was bypassed Naxos, because there was a threat of a
strong Meltemi coming in to the Cyclades whereas the Dodeconese were forecast
to have more gentle winds. This
made us think we had to beat a quick retreat eastwards to avoid bad
weather. However, we are not sure
that is still the case. So we
don’t know if we will be in a port or marina for the next couple of days or if
we will just try to find sheltered anchorages to make long passages to.
Also,
we are in despirate need of filling our water tank if we are not going to be in
places where there is water. This
tank has lasted 5 days which is nearly a record and that includes showers on
board. The problem is that our
boat is so far from the water tap we don’t think our hose will be long
enough. Luckily when we get to the
boat we find a chartered Cat in front of us and he has a triple length
hose. He is kind enough to let us
use it and we fill the tank, which is a relief. We also try to wash the boat. It is filthy.
This marina is a dust trap and the boat is covered in a thin coating of
black and brown sand. We do make
do job, because the borrowed hose doesn’t have a proper end on it nor is it
long enough to get to the bows on the boat. But at least there is some improvement.
After
all this is it quite late. With
our replenished water supply we shower and go in to town for supper. I don’t
think I mentioned that this marina has no facilities, eg no showers or
toilets. So we have had to do
everything on board. Anyway back to town for supper. While we were eating at the really posh restaurant yesterday
we saw a Gyros (donner kebab) place across the road that seemed very
popular. So after a sunset drink
in little Venice we went there and had Pita Gyros, for 3.3 euro each. About one tenth of what we paid
yesterday It was a great
success. Then Richard got himself
a huge ice cream cone (which a shared a bit) and back to the boat.
We
think we will try to go back down to Paros tomorrow, but we shall see what the
weather forecast looks like. The
problem is that we have to get back to Leros at the end of the month and don’t
want to surf down 3 or 4 metre waves.
Also we have to get the Cats in front of us to move so we can get out!
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