Saturday 27th March.
Back on the road from Patras heading southwest.
St Andrew's exterior
Back on the road from Patras heading southwest.
One more from the ferry trip back from Evia
and a view of the Islands from Evia.
We have enjoyed our evenings in Patras and the scent of orange blossom is quite intoxicating as you walk around the town. Harry of www.podilato.homestead.com had serviced our bikes beautifully and they felt like new so we set off full of enthusiasm for our ‘hoped for’ tour of the Peloponnese. We visited St Andrew’s Cathedral which is magnificent and it is refreshing to see a Greek Orthodox Church built in quite a different style to the Catholic ones we have visited over the past months. It is modeled on the Aghia Sofia in Istanbul, but being a lot more modern and clearly designed with the aid of physics, lacks some of the fascination.
Top of the cupola at St Andrew's
Interior St Andrew's
St Andrew's exterior
Greek is just that little bit trickier to master than Italian and Spanish so we are trying to learn 2 words or so each day by bringing them into our conversation. We were rather pleased with ourselves this morning for managing to buy our pastries for lunch and enquiring as to the whereabouts of the local post office. We can’t understand the replies but it is a start! In the more rural areas not many people speak any English so it is good for us. They all think we are German anyway so Alec attempts that much of the time.
We have picked a lot of brains about what is and is not going to be possible for us. Fortunately the first day was just a repeat of last weekend so we went back to our favourite hotel in Kaminia and had a bit of a relaxed time, to recover from the past week. We both swam as the sea was the proper azure colour that you expect from the Mediterranean and not at all cold. Our review of the hotel had just been published, but luckily we had been very complimentary except about the lack of a bath plug. This time we had a plug in the smallest basin you had ever seen with no overflow. We think the designer was more into the aesthetics than the practicalities.
We have picked a lot of brains about what is and is not going to be possible for us. Fortunately the first day was just a repeat of last weekend so we went back to our favourite hotel in Kaminia and had a bit of a relaxed time, to recover from the past week. We both swam as the sea was the proper azure colour that you expect from the Mediterranean and not at all cold. Our review of the hotel had just been published, but luckily we had been very complimentary except about the lack of a bath plug. This time we had a plug in the smallest basin you had ever seen with no overflow. We think the designer was more into the aesthetics than the practicalities.
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