Itisallgreek2me

Sunday, 31 July 2022… Left Areópoli this morning on the 08.30 hours bus to Gytheio… a mere 40 minutes ride away. All quite uneventful, however, I was surprised to find out how far the bus stop is from the harbour. Glad I left early before the heat of the day.

In 2010, I spent 4 nights in Gytheio, staying at Leonidas Hotel right on the waterfront. Walked by there today on my way to the ferry ticket office. I already had an online ticket, however, I had hoped to leave my luggage there for the day but no… the lady said it wasn’t possible. Walked on to a nearby cafe… same story, sorry, no room! Then visited RE salto Cafe snack bar… no problem 😊 and so it became my luggage storage, food, drink, Wifi, phone charge, WC stop during my 10 hours in Gytheio.

The last thing I did before leaving Aróma Avlís was publish my Blog about my time in Areópoli… no problem with my phone. By the time I reached Gytheio, although I had good Wifi connection at the Cafe, I couldn’t access my website nor my email and many of my Apps were down. It came up saying “No Internet Connection” well there was… some things like FB were working perfectly fine. “Problem connecting to the Server” etc etc. Began to wonder if I had been hacked. Being Sunday, Vodafone store was closed. I couldn’t access the Vodafone GR App so a card was of no use to Top Up data if that was the problem. Made for hot, frustrating and worrying work, necessitating an Amstel beer at 10 o’clock in the morning… a coffee fix wouldn’t cut it!

Went walkabout for a couple of hours to the pine tree covered island of Cranae, these days joined to the mainland by a causeway. Cranae is reputed to be the place where Paris and Helen spent the night together before leaving for Troy… starting the Trojan War.

On Cranae you will see the small Byzantine Church of Agios Petros. The Tzanetakis Tower, built in 1829 and now I believe housing a Museum that never seems to be open and a marble Lighthouse built in 1823… height 23m. Close to the Church I came across a mother cat with her 4 kittens… so sad, someone had left them a little food and mother watched her babies eat before moving in to finish any leftovers.

Returned to RE salto for lunch, ending up staying there for the remainder of the day as it was too hot to venture out anywhere. Late afternoon a mad rush back to the ferry ticket office for a paper ticket… with my phone woes, the QR Code was no longer available on my E-ticket.

Departed Gytheio on Seajets ferry boat “Aqua Jewell” at 19.00 hours, arriving on the island of Kythira just before 21.30 hours. A wheel broke on my trolley case as I was coming off the ferry… buggar! My hosts at Porfyra in Potamós had arranged for Manos the taxi driver to pick me up from the Port… what a character he turned out to be. Drove me here at break neck speeds, overtaking everything in sight on the 20km journey through the night… exhausting!

So it was quite a day… best news, the problems with my phone appear to be resolved.

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