As said before, no two days are the same!! Woke up in the port of Korissia (on Kea) this morning and after "early" breakfast (8.00) we set off for our last ride - and of course they had saved the steepest/longest/most "challenging" ride for the last!
Up a very long, continuous and in parts VERY steep climb to a beautiful village by the name of Loulis - complete with lots of donkeys being used by the workers and magnificent views. Fortunately also home to some great bakeries and coffee shops so more "cappacino Freddo" was sampled before we took to the longest/fastest/most enjoyable downhill so far - but very sad to get to the end (about 12.30) of our riding in Greece.
Lunch on board while we set sail to return to Piraeus (Athens) - a trip of about 5 hours - plenty of time for sorting things out ready for leaving the boat early tomorrow morning for our 8.45am flight to Rome. Along the way we stopped off at a little bay near the cliffs below Poseidon's Temple for a last boat swim - an activity we will always remember with the clear blue water and refreshing temperature always.
Fantastic but a little sad dinner all together on the boat tonight - Nondas the chef (who with his long unruly hair and tall skinny frame looked nothing like a chef) excelled himself with a beautiful seafood meal. Our guides, Catherina and Drazen were fantastic and with their German speech were highly amusing but incredibly well informed and looked after us really well. ("Today ze climb vill be very long and ze vezer is quite hot but you vill enjoy it, ya?") The crew - George, Alfi, Lorenco, Nellie and the Captain Gerasimos were also great.
A truly memorable trip!!
Trivia: the port of Korissia is "famous" as the ship "Britannia" - sister ship to the Titanic - was torpedoed in the harbour in 1916. One of the nurses on board (who survived) had also been on the Titanic when it sank.
Pictures
* view from Loulis - height of about 500metres above sea level
*donkeys still in everyday use
*climbing through the narrow streets of Loulis to (of course) reach the highest point
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