We left our dodgy campsite in Gytheio with the even dodgier showers with mixed feelings. P and I glad and happy to be off to better things, the kids very very sad to leave behind the gorgeous stray puppy who had wandered into the campsite on our 2nd day there and had set up camp next to our tent as he was showered with affection from 3 wee people. Mara is really sad once again to lose new friends – she really took to Tara and Dave and they were exceedingly kind in return. We keep explain it’s not losing friends, it’s making new friends who will still be your friends and we can see again in the future. It’s a tough lesson i suppose and hard for her to see the positives.
We are now in Napflio – reported to be the Venice of Greece. We are on a spotlessly clean campsite and the skies are clear blue and the beach about 30seconds away. The only downside is it is not very warm. About 16 or 17 degrees during the day and only about 10 or 11 at night. Pieter asks me every day why i took OUT of the trailer our little electric portable heater before we left. Heh ho, i was convinced that we were heading to warm countries and anyway, once in Africa the campsites won’t have electricity. Mosquitoes have been an ongoing irritation, but we have rigged up our mossie net in the trailer tent and the 3 kids sleep in the wee dome tent and that remains closed all the time. However when the kids tent got flooded at the last place the kids had 2 nights sleeping on the floor in with us and they got tons of bites. Poor Archie seems to react really badly and really swells up – he hasn’t been able to see out of one eye for 2 days as the eye lid is puffed up like a golf ball due to a bite. Doesn’t bother him and we have spent mornings by the beach while they guddle around and collect hermit crabs and Pieter chats up the old English couples.
Pieter is being very useful in this regard. We have got lots of inside info from his chatting up of old ladies – the other night he got talking to a tubby Greek lady in her nightie and got some amazing food recommendations. She sent us off to a wee place where mains cost 2 Euros, a litre of wine 3 Euros ( i still couldn’t face it, thanks Tara!) and it was fresh, cooked in front of us and alive and bustling with only locals.
We have met an 80 year lady from London who lives permanently on this site in her caravan and has travelled the world. It’d say she was an aging hippy, but i guess she is actually too old even for that. An early adopter of the travelling lifestyle then.
Our mission is to get to a travel agency and find out the quickest way to get to Egypt. It is getting so cold that we just have to rush now to get south. This morning we chatted with someone who travels in Syria and he thought we’d be mad to even try and camp there at this time of year. So, we have asked about ferries but such is the relationship between Greece and Turkey that ferry agents in Greece won’t give you any information about Turkish ferries at all – not even the names of the ferry companies...this makes life difficult. The internet is great (when we have it) but i can’t find out for sure if the winter ferries take cars or not. I need a real person with no racial issues!
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Ah, the adventure continues! Interesting the Turkey/Greece thing. I hadn't realised it was still quite as bad as that. Hope there's warmer weather and less mozzies awaiting you!
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