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Egyptian and a Kiwi

If anyone ever doubted my ability to master this machine, then I’ve certainly proven them wrong.  It’s had a hammering these last few days, however, the opportunity presented itself with free Internet access at The Student & Travellers Inn.  Whether I will continue to be so lucky on my travels remains to be seen. 

Yes, the time has come for me to move on.  Tomorrow I’m catching the Flyingcat 1 from Piraeus at 0900 hours bound for the island of Hydra.   A destination I’ve never visited before but always wanted to go there.  Very popular I believe with artists, writers and such like minded peoples.  Not the cheapest place either for accommodation but I did find on the web Erofili Pension and have reserved a room for 40 Euro per day.   Best site to check it out www.greekislandsrealestate.com/erofili_pension_hydra_island_greece  

The weather today has been quite unseasonal with rather a cold wind.  After revisiting the Vodafone store and getting the nice people there to setup my mobile with a Greek number, I had a very pleasant walk through the National Gardens, past the Zappeion and on to yet another archaeological site.  If there is one drawback with travelling alone, it is having no one you know to take photographs with yourself  in them.  At the Olympian site I met up with an Egyptian guy in the same situation and so we exchanged our cameras for a few shots and even managed to have an Asian tourist take one of us together (the Asian’s antics were quite amusing and  a video of them would have made for great entertainment). 

We parted company as he had limited time and a plane to catch today.  I continued my walk back to the Plaka, in time for an early Taverna lunch and return to my room to update my site and make ready for tomorrow’s early departure.  Tonight will be my last meal at Damigos.  Last night I had their well-known and famous specialty dish Bakaliarakia (deep fried cod fish) with Skordalia (a kind of dip loaded with garlic), a few Patates Tiganetes (fries), Psomi (bread) and of course, my 1/4 litre of Krassi (wine). 

Very early days but so far managing to stay within my daily budget!

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