We
have stayed in Naoussa for extra day because of weather and the fact that we
have 12 days before we need to be back in Leros and we are running out of
islands to visit!
Monday
night was very blowy and the boat was swaying all over the place. I decided to take a pill to make sure I
would be OK. It is rare for me to
do so in port, but this one is different.
All the warnings were true enough.
It isn’t as bad as it was Vernazza in the Cinque Terre in Italy, but
nearly. On Monday evening we
walked all over the town which is another Chora with its narrow streets going
up a hill and white washed houses.
We found a good restaurant right on the beach and had a nice meal.
On
Tuesday we decided to hire a car.
They told us they would have a car for us and they opened at 9am. So just before then R went to get the car
and I was getting worried when over an hour later he hadn’t returned. I went to find him just as he was
returning. Apparently they didn’t
have a car and he had to wait for another company to bring one.
When
we got back to the boat we were a bit concerned to see that one of he wheels on
the passerelle, which we just paid to have replaced, has broken again after
only two weeks! It hasn’t quite
snapped off yet, but it will very soon.
We need to get a fender to put under it to stop it deteriorating, but
the one we had on it before the repair was never returned by the boatyard.
We
had to rush off because parking here in the port is not allowed and they give
big fines for it. So we rushed
off. We did the highlights of the
island. First going to the town of
Paroikia. Another cute white
washed town with a port. We even
managed to buy a fender for the passerelle. Then to a hill village called Lefkas and finally to a beach,
where it was too cold and windy to swim!
I put on a Bikini but spent the whole time wrapped up in my beach towel.
When
we got back to the boat we had another disaster. One of our brand new mooring lines had worn through on the
rather rough metal cleat where it was tied on. It was JUST holding the boat with a few strands left. So we had to hurriedly get another line
on. This time we have doubled it
up like we were advised to do in Ireland a few years ago.
It
was worse for rocking this afternoon, so to avoid feeling bad we went ashore to
dinner. Richard says the further
mooring line will be fine.
This
morning we decided to stay for another day and let the sea swell go down. We went into town for elevenses and
then spent the rest of day on the boat.
I finally washed the floors to try get some of the filth from Mykonos
cleared up. Richard finally
polished the chrome on the boat.
It was really looking bad.
Made the boat seem very neglected.
I tried earlier in the summer and couldn’t polish it well. I bought some highly poisonous stuff to
clean and a whole bag of disposable gloves which it needed to use. But R just used the old stuff and it
seemed to work OK. Not perfect,
but a good improvement.
While
looking at the boat we have a second problem with the passerelle.. The end which attaches to the boat is
also bent. If that snaps when
someone is on the thing it will dump the person in the drink. I don’t know what
to do. It seems it is just very
badly designed and can’t take the forces on it.
So
we had dinner on board. The
bouncing is much better. We will
venture out tomorrow.
I
haven’t mentioned one interesting thing about both Naxos and Paros. That is they are famous for their
marble. For instance the Venus de
Milo was carved from Paros marble.
The availability of marble is obvious. In Naxos the breakwater was half mode of huge slabs of
marble. The streets were all
designed with marble set in the paving.
Here in Paros most of the bigger streets are paved with marble and many
houses have marble surrounds around the doors. All very pretty.
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