Spetses Island

We've just had a wonderful day on the Greek Island of Spetses. We hired a scooter and rode around the island. We were the only people wearing helmets! The island is only about 20 kms or so in circumference. We stopped at a lovely beach. It's obviously off-peak now as only about 5% of the sun loungers were occupied. Still, the temperature was in the high 20s. We got some sun. I got to windsurf for an hour, although the wind was quite mild so I didn't get going very fast at all. Still, any windsurfing is good windsurfing.

There's also a cool cave at one end of the beach. While we were trying to locate it we meet an American couple. They were at the entrance to the cave but weren't convinced that they were in the right place. The hole into the cave is quite small. It looks like it used to be larger but a rock obscures most of the gap. I wasn't going to give up so I had a bit of a look and figured the gap was big enough. Actually, it was easy. Once inside the cave really opens out. It's open to the sea at one end. Apparently, there is a tale of villagers hiding out there at some time in the past. I must get the details.

The four of us sat in the cave for sometime chatting. That was good as our eyes became adjusted to the dark and we could better see how impressive the cave is.

We've arranged to have dinner with the American couple. In fact, Andrew has just turned up at the Internet cafe.

Off to Athens tomorrow afternoon. In the morning we'll check out the Bubulina museum. Bubulina was the only female admiral in the world...according to the brochure I have. The museum is in her house and is still owned by one of her decendents.

Current plan is Athens for two days then off to Santorini. We are going to try and fly from there to Rome. It's a little pricey but will stop us wasting at least a day getting to Patras to catch a 15 hour ferry and then train connections across Italy. The flight sounds great. You are in a smaller aircraft (20 seater?) to Athens so we'd be able to get a good look at the islands from the air. From Athens you pick up a regular flight. I hope it all works out.

Right...off to find some yummy seafood, I hope.

P.S. I've changed the settings so you should be able to leave comments now. No complaints about spelling or grammar please. I'm writing these blogs as quick as I can so I'm not checking such things very carefully :)