At Loggerheads with Each Other

Day 58 (Thursday)

Although Tracey and I have been to Kefalonia six times now we’ve never really explored the southern end of the island so today we decided to correct this.  We drove down south and visited the resort of Katelios followed by the larger resort of Skala.  At Skala we found a giant chess set so mum challenged me to a game.  It was a close fought match but needless to say I won (if I hadn’t I wouldn’t have mentioned it in the blog).  The next resort we visited was Poros where we listened in to a sailing group having their induction meeting.  Now that we are experienced sailors we made sure the correct information was given out.

On the way back to the villa we caught a brief glimpse of the sunset which is all over very quickly here and had almost disappeared by the time I got my camera out.

We took the mothers to one of our old haunts for supper tonight and it was almost cool enough for the cardigans to have their first outing.

Day 59 (Friday)

It couldn’t be put off any longer, with three women in tow we had to go for a shopping trip to Argostoli.  Once the shopping had been completed and we’d been revived with coffee and frappe we walked back along the harbour front.  As I mentioned earlier Tracey and I have been here six times and on those six visits (and numerous harbour front walks) we’ve never seen a loggerhead turtle.  Tracey’s mum has now been here twice and seen loggerhead turtles twice!  There were two of them (about 3 foot long) hanging around a fisherman’s boat that was throwing small fish into the sea.

We spent the rest of the day reading and relaxing by the pool before heading out to Enastron (the local tavern) for supper.  The mothers both had mousaka which was huge and very rich.  As we had already had a meze as a starter they were both unable to finish it and were mortified when Tracey asked for a doggie bag.

Day 60 (Saturday)

Time to say goodbye to the mothers today.  We had another stress free time at Kefalonia airport and had plenty of time for the customary breakfast at Icarus taverna between checking in the suitcases and getting through security.  If only all airport check ins could be this way.  We bade the mothers a tearful farewell (well at least Tracey did!) and made our way to the supermarket for our weekly shop.  We have had a very enjoyable week showing our mums the island and we hope they have enjoyed it too.

The afternoon was spent catching up on our chores, washing and ironing mostly, and mooching about around the pool and enjoying the sunshine as we do not know how much longer it will last.

Tomorrow we move on to our last location in a village in the mountains just beyond Aghia Efimia providing we can actually find it as the directions are a little complicated.

Loggerhead Turtle

Even more shades of Grey

Spassky vs Fisher

 Sunset over Trapezaki