Back on the Road again ..

Left Kefalonia in the early hours and took the ferry boat from Poros to Kylinni, drove through the messini mani winding rural back roads, through lots of tiny villages in the mountains off roading which slowed us down and almost killed gordon when he fell down a massive pot hole. Arrived at the Meltemi campsite in Gythio and set up home between 4 olive trees for the night. Campsite was lovely with its own pool and private beach. Loved our little pitch we set up, using the olive tree branches to hang towels from and boiling water on the little gas cooker to make coffee in the morning.



Next day boarded a huge ferry boat from Gythio to Kissamos took about 9 hours and stopped at Kythira and Anti Kythira before we got to Crete. We nearly got off at Anti Kythira as we thought it was our stop luckily realised beforehand. No dolphins seen the whole way - where have they all gone? Hopefully to Santorini.

Kriti

Now we are at camping nopgia for a week in Kissamos where we have billions zillions trillions of crickets in the forest tree tops which are deafening to wake up to and make noise all day. The fattest cat lives here and eats all the bar leftovers and walks you to the showers and back in the evenings. We have english neighbours at the next tree and as usual everyones tent is bigger than ours. Lots of tent envy going on.

Our first trip - we found a sign to Balos Beach which is a shallow water lagoon you get to by literally hiking up and down a mountain,
takes ages but the view is worth it. There is an island opposite the lagoon called Gramvoussa where the revolutionaries lived as pirates for 3 years when Crete was under siege. Apparently lots of seals and turtles live around the lagoon but we didn't see any at all.

Went to see Chania, the former capital and walked along the city wall of the venetian harbour to the lighthouse and back, really pretty, saw an art exhibition in an old mosque and had lunch in the old town.





Went to Falanarsi beach on the way back where the waves were huge.


We were going to go to the Samaria Gorge today but instead I fell over and cut my big toe open so now can barely walk let alone do a 6 hour hike. Yuck!