Pserimos

As I said in the previous post Louise & I had a holiday in Kalymnos a while back, in a place called Kantoni I think or something very like it. We used to go into the main town some nights to the harbour and I remember a friendly old Greek man with impeccable manners who insisted on giving us pistachio nuts – it’s stayed with me all these years.

Anyhow from the very same harbour we used to get a wee boat that took us for the day to, what was then, a  deserted beach with from memory a couple of tavernas. It turns out that beach is on Pserimos – it’s now a small village over the hill from where we are anchored and we reckon we can find a path up and over to visit it.

But first, how about this for an anchorage – it’s now crowded we don’t have it to ourselves ! – Nicolas’s yacht and a day tripper have arrived scandalous !

Blue just blue and more blue ……………

We set off up over the hill with our bag of rubbish and down past farms and goats to the other side. It was quite a walk about an hour. We did recognise the place when we got there but has inevitably grown with bigger more organized trips arriving from Kos now, as well as Kalymnos. I imagine when allowed again it will also be joined by boats from Turkey. It’s still unspoiled though and when the trippers leave I imagine it’s just the way its always been. I think the villagers must appreciate the income but equally also appreciate when we all leave.

Up up and over…. its a hard old country to eke out a living from the land.

The village and beach now

 and ………. having had a beer it was time to head back passed goats heads , skins and the live versions too

At the top. In the distance is Turkey …..  or as I called it the Orc armies in tents at the foot of Mount Doom.

More boats had arrived in our absence

The next planned stop had been Kos Marina for showers and stocking up etc but the Marina was bunged full of charter boats so we couldn’t book a place. We arranged to meet up with Nicolas who had also been turned away and was now in Mandraki Harbour in KOS town.

He kindly booked us a space so that was our next passage planned for tomorrow.