Day 61 (Sunday)
After two weeks at Georgia villa in Trapezaki it was time to
move on today. The villa was ours until
10:00am so we closed the door behind us at 09:59:59 and began our journey over
the mountains to the village of Makriotika [makri-ott-ika].
We had been sent google earth files locating the cottage but
we still couldn’t find it so we rang the owner (Gerry) who said he would be
there in five minutes. While we were
waiting an English lady (Amanda) came up to us and asked us if we were looking
for Polyanthi, we said we weren’t but we still had quite a long chat with her
about the village and bored her with our travel stories.
Makriotika has one taverna and one shop, the shop sells
cartons of wine for 1.50 euros and the taverna is open every evening. After about thirty minutes she went on her
way and Gerry still hadn’t made an appearance.
We went for a little wander and had a chat with the taverna owner (Petro
Angelos) and discovered that roasted suckling pig was on the menu for tonight
(the pork chops we bought yesterday would have to go in the freezer).
There was still no sign of Gerry so we gave him another call
and discovered there had been a mix up in the family, each of them thinking the
other had gone to meet us. Katerina (the
mother) turned up five minutes later and we followed her to the cottage and
began to acclimatise to the altitude and village life.
Kalivaki Cottage is very cute and very ‘Cath Kidston’
(according to Tracey). The suckling pig
at the taverna was delicious, Amanda and her partner Russell were there and we
chatted further about life in Kefalonia.
Day 62 (Sunday)
After a slow start this morning we spent an enjoyable hour
or so translating the instructions on the washing machine. I don’t know why we spent so long over this
but it was one of those jobs you just had to finish once you had started. If you ever need to know the Greek for ‘squeezing’
and ‘pumping’ then you know who to ask.
Once we’d finished translating all the words on the dial we decided we
were no further forward.
It might be our last sunny day for a while so we went to
Mirtos Beach (a ten minute drive away) for a swim followed by supper back at
the cottage.
Kalivaki Cottage
Coffee and Breakfast area
Supper and journal writing area
Indoor flushing toilet (photo for the mothers info)
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