Thursday 23 May (Day 30)
While we were having breakfast this morning a young and attractive Greek lady arrived, asked me to put my shoes on and come with
her. I complied immediately but when she
asked me for my driving license and credit card I realised that she had come to
deliver our hire car. Ah well, never
mind.
We took the mountain road to the tiny hamlet of
Appollon. Before we arrived in Appollon
we stopped to see two Kouros’s. A Kouros
is a male statue made from marble. These
were made 2,500 years ago and were thought to be accidentally broken on site so
were never delivered. Naxos was and is known for its marble hence the statues.
Appollon is a quaint seaside hamlet, we stopped there and
read a while before heading back along the coastal road and stopping at an even
larger Kouros.
By a happy coincidence we are in Naxos at the same time as
the 15th Domus festival: http://naxosfestival.com/
so in the evening we went to a Jazz and Blues event. Two guys were playing the piano, guitar and saxophone
(two at a time obviously) and they were excellent.
Friday 24 May (Day 31)
It was our last full day with the car so we visited the
villages that we hadn’t yet been to.
Our first port of call was Halki which a lovely small town with some
nice local craft shops such as:
Next was Filoti (Naxos’ second town) which wasn’t so
good. Apeiranthos was another lovely
place that we got completely lost in.
At the concert last night we met an Australian woman who
said she had cycled up Mt Zeus the day before so we thought we would go and
take a look. When we got there we
couldn’t quite work out how she had got up so rough and steep a path. We knew we could never make it to the top so
we aimed to get to Zeus’s cave (about half way).
The path became so bad that we turned back with the excuse that we
weren’t wearing walking boots. While we
were having our lunch we noticed people on their way down wearing flip flops!
The last couple of days have been quite windy and the sea
has become quite choppy - just in time
for our six hour ferry journey tomorrow to Amorgos. Our next blog entry could be a little green
in colour.
Kouros 1
Kouros 2
Appollon
Kouros 3 (and me)
Jazz and Blues evening
Halki
Mount Zeus
The current residents of Mount Zeus
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