Saturday 8 June (Day 46)
We were awoken this morning at seven thirty by frantic
knocking on our room door. I opened it
to find Yorta saying “Mister, Miister, breakfast, breakfast”.
We traipsed upstairs for our breakfast which was brought to us at great
haste. We were a bit confused because the
ferry didn’t leave until twenty to ten.
While I was leisurely sipping my coffee Yorta pointed to her
watch and the sea and said “Mister, Mister,Scopelitis, Scopelitis”!! Oh, we thought, perhaps the ferry is leaving
early, after all Yorta must know because there are only two ferries that call
here and she has the benefit of local knowledge.
We hurried through our breakfast and went to get our
cases. Yorta and her sister-in-law threw
them into the back of the car and we sped off, it was now ten past eight. As we approached the sea Yorta ground to a
halt raised her hands and said “where is Scopelitis”? I showed her our tickets which had the
departure time of 09:40 at which she put her head in hands and said “Octo, Octo”. She obviously thought the ferry was leaving
at eight. She offered to take us back
but as we like to be early we said carry on.
Yorta was very apologetic but we found it highly amusing and it did
explain why she was so confused by our casual approach to breakfast.
The Scopelitis departed right on time and we arrived in
Naxos at midday. After we were settled
into our hotel we went for a walk.
Tracey spotted a barbers so I popped in for a trim. It’s much easier for us men, he grabbed the
top of my hair and said “scissor”? and the back of my hair and said “machine”? I nodded and off he went. He did a very good job for 8 euros.
When we left Naxos Town a couple of weeks ago it felt like a
small village but now it feels like a big city.
There was even more of the old town that we hadn’t seen before. After a evening meal we treated ourselves to
some ice cream, three scoops – cherry, Ferrero rocher and tiramisu, Scrummy!
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