We couldn’t leave Samos without a final visit to Pythagorion and to say goodbye to Diamontes.
We moored up outside the Blue Boat Bar, the noisiest bar in town, but since things are starting to wind down a bit now it didn’t bother us too much.
Gordon drinking Shuma with Diamontes the harbour master in Pythagorion
Nicolas was aready there and Paul and Paulette were there too. We spent the week getting ready for the start of our return journey, cleaning the boat, shopping, re fuelling etc. Obviously the preparations were broken up by aperitiffs on Paul and Paulette’s boat, Nicolas’ boat and our boat, well, why wouldn’t you. We also visited the Gyros restaurant and the four trees restaurant, two of our favourites and cocktails in the Beyond roof bar.
Because of the strong North winds, our sailing area was restricted to certain Islands. It’s amazing how you get attached to them, so, like Patmos, it was quite sad leaving Samos for the last time. Our return trip will be in the company of Nicolas who is also heading back to Siracusa for the winter. Well, we’ve spent most of the summer with him so it would be silly not to finish it with him. The plan is he gives us, well me really, French lessons and we give him English lessons. So far, he’s doing better than me, my French is abysmal but I can speak more French than I could at the beginning of Summer so at least I’ve made some progress.
