Still in luxury.

Sunday 22nd June.

We are parked this evening at the Gythio Bay Campsite. We had planned to leave this morning but yesterday I phoned the local shipping agent in Gythio town to see how much it would cost to take the ferry from Greece to Italy. It was considerably less than we had thought and we can travel from Patras to Trieste for €280 euros and that will save us about 1200 miles driving through northern Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary. With diesel prices here that's a saving of about €300, without factoring in the campsite costs we would have, so it's a bit of a no brainer really. So tomorrow we're off into town to book our tickets. We are thinking of leaving Greece in about three weeks before it gets too hot and too busy. We've been pretty lucky so far finding places to park up at night for free in harbours and car parks but that's all going to change when the holiday season really gets under way shortly. Whilst we didn't particularly dislike Romania and Bulgaria the roads were really punishing and we don't want to go through that experience again. Ideally we would have travelled to Greece through the Balkan Adriatic coast but our insurance wouldn't cover us for Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia Herzegovina or Serbia. I doubt the roads would have been any better but at least it would have been a shorter route. The only downside is that it's over thirty hours on the ferry!

We hadn't planned on spending time in Italy on this trip but I'm sure we can find plenty of places in the north to explore before we meander through France where we are planning to meet up with our daughter and her family in the Cevenne mid-August.

The last couple of days have been really lazy for us, sitting by the pool drinking iced Cappucinos and moving round the umbrella to avoid too much sun. Despite my best efforts I have some very rosy thighs. Sun cream is for wimps right?

Luxury by the pool.

Last nights menu. We went for the moussaka. Cock???

After two and a half days here we are looking forward to moving again. We've got a list of little harbours and beaches we can stop on around this corner of the Mani. I eventually bought a fishing rod and all the tackle so I can't wait to get to a place where I can catch our supper ha ha.

Pat.

 

 

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