D6 A view of Ithaca

Another clear, sunny day. We went for a coffee by the harbour and cycled to look out over the new habour walls that are being built. We watched three luxurious Ukrainian catamarans set off to sea in a line. Vasiliki is developing and changing. 

Oliver went off to play with his CS friends. Katka went paddle boarding and I met her when I went swimming and we swam out in the warm sea. There was another huge yacht with a helipad anchored some way off the beach. Rumour was that it was Christiano Ronaldo's. Maybe Madonna will drop by tomorrow. 

Katka prepared a great lunch and afterwards we snoozed and read in the heat of the afternoon. Then we cooled off with another swim. The surfers were all waiting in the water with their boards for the wind to start but it never came. There was just one guy on a moterised surfboard jetting back and forth across the water.

In the early evening Katka and I set off on our bikes to see the lighthouse. We climbed the steep asphalt road out of the village that climbs the mountain. We stopped to admire the views - Ithaca and Keffalonia floated below us. An American family asked us to convey messages to their mother's as they passed us. 

At the top of the climb there was a farm with goats in the stony landscape and we went on till we could see the lighthouse out on the edge of the island. We stopped to smell the wild mountain thyme, the sage and admire a huge soldier thistle.

We whizzed back down and ate the delicious Greek bread for supper. Then we played two games of Dixit. Then Maros and I went to catch the end of the Italy-Spain match in the now crowded camp bar. 

A great day!