Kim and Peter who we met in Samos are arriving tonight as well on their motorbike so we hope to catch up with them at some stage.
The castle is well lit up tonight.
Day Two.
We have a good sleep and just as we are leaving for our morning coffee Kim and Peter arrive at the yacht. Perfect timing so we all go off to the old city for some delicious breakfast creeps, great coffee and a few laughs. We enjoy listening to their travel stories as they have been motorcycling around the Greek Islands and Turkey.
We arrange to met them for dinner the following night and head back to the marina. I have been shopping around for the best price of Moët and the marina supermarket is very competitive. Peter the owner helps us out there and we stock up for our next leg. Wow they even have Nepresso capsules, I'm in seventh heaven as we were on rations. Peter will deliver our order to the yacht shortly.
I'm on a mission to book us on some tours of the old city and bus trip to the east coast. After numerous phones calls and walking aimlessly around the old and new city speaking to travel agents, I give up. The only way we can see anything is to hire a car which I was hoping to avoid so that Greg could enjoy the trip as well. He is happy to drive though. I arrange for the car to be dropped off at the yacht at 9am Saturday (tomorrow) morning.
We give the yacht a good hose down as its covered in red dust, seems like a never ending task and we refuel. We've skipped lunch as breakfast was very filling and decide on an early dinner in the new city. We find a restaurant that advertises seafood spaghetti; just what we feel like, it looks good but it's not so tasty as it has processed seafood in it. Anyway we still enjoy the evening.
Around 2am we are up and adjusting the lines as the wind direction keeps changing. We are bumping into the yacht next door and our lines are squeaking. Luckily we go back to sleep for a few hours.
Day Three.
John the car hire guy arrives at 9am and gives us some good advice on where to go. Basically he suggests the east coast down to Lindos another ancient town with ruins and an acropolis. There are plenty of beaches along the way to check out as well. So we head south at around 9.30am. It's only a 45 min drive to Lindos, however we stop at one of the castles along the way which has amazing tunnels dug through it but nothing much else is remaining.
We get to Lindos and its chaos as there are too many tourist buses and a major traffic jam. We head down to the city but can't drive through it so head back up. There are two bays / beaches one on either side where you can swim and anchor your yacht. It's very pretty.
We head further south and stop at Lee Beach, Pefki. It's a lovely spot with a clean sandy beach and plenty of British tourists. The beach is probably the nicest we've seen so far. We stop for some refreshments.
We decide to head back as Greg is very keen to visit Faliraki Beach just south of Rhodos. It's a little disappointing although a very large beach area and seems like a great night club spot. We might go back and visit it after the F1 on Sunday night.
Back at the marina we find the yacht covered in red dust again so we clean her up. Kim and Peter are dropping by for pre dinner drinks, our first visitors of the trip. We pop open our first Moët for some time as the price in Turkey was ridiculous, apparently the govt. places a 89% tax on imported liquor.
Anyway we enjoy our drinks and head into the old city for dinner. Kim chooses a great restaurant and we share some sardines, salad, sagonaki prawns and veal with risoni pasta, all very delicious. We finish off the meal with some honey flavoured raki, compliments of the restaurant. It's very strong but drinkable.
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