Lost and Found

We've had some lazy days and some strenuous one's this week!  More taverna's are actually starting to open so the choices have gone up.  We finally managed to go to an ouzeri that I meant to go to all summer last year and never got round to it.  It's an old fashioned place that has a couple of guys playing bouzouki a couple of nights a week.  Unfortunately it also has a local reputation of not serving very good food so we stuck to meze.  The food was actually perfectly fine and the music was great....although it didn't start until 10pm rather than 9 as advertised!

We ate at a lovely fish taverna called Pascali's on Thursday night and I had the most amazing tasting Sea Bream.  We were half way down our half kilo of wine when the owner turned up with another one saying it was with compliments of Kostas & Karen (who happened to be sitting a couple of tables behind!). We thanked them and she came over later to remind us she was leaving in the morning for a week in the UK and would we mind taking the washing off the line, emptying the washing machine and maybe ironing the sheets! Beware Greeks bearing gifts!!!!

Paul decided to go walking and I joined him thinking it was a nice flat walk, ha flaming ha!  It was to a couple of churches called Ayii Anaryiri which were built on a cliff edge, miles from anywhere that you could get a car to.  I have no idea how they got the building materials there in the first place and only the most devout must go there to worship!! There were the most amazing views though.

Old Ayii Anaryiri church

Views across the bay



We scrambled, literally, down the hill and finally made it to the bottom and a lovely beach called Tourkoneri.  The only problem was we then had to get back up the other side of the island!  This hill seemed to go on forever and it was around midday by this time so was rather warm!  We finally made it to the top road and were passing a small builders yard when this tiny little kitten came hurtling out from it's hiding place and came running towards us meowing all the way.  I picked it up and it purred and purred...great, now what!  On further investigation there was a hut with cat food and a couple of bowls so it was obviously being looked after by the construction guys....sweet! It seemed insistent on following us so we created a diversion with a few bits of food and hot footed it out and around the corner! 

Kitten number 1

Kitten number 2

We carried on with our route and managed to lose the path in a pine forest!  We tracked back to the road and bugger me if another kitten didn't come running out of the undergrowth greeting us like long lost parents!  This one was a bit bigger and much more insistent on following us home .  We tried to carry it but it was rather wriggly and we had no idea how much further we had to go.  Paul hit on the idea of giving the tiny one a companion so we duly walked back to the builders yard and introduced the kittens...they got on like a house on fire so we put some food out, waited until they were both tucking in and then ran like hell....There are going to be some very confused builders when they turn up to work!!!!