Brazil! Who are you??

Tuesday 8th July.

We are parked up tonight on the harbour in Kyparissia. Our plan was to stop at the Gialova Lagoon but we arrived there and it was incredibly hot, exposed and the signs saying we would be fined €60 per person for parking overnight scared us away. There was a lovely beach cove though, although it was pretty much wall to wall €9 umbrellas and guys in too tight speedos. We were going to visit Nestor's Cave but when we heard it was all uphill we backed out.

We left Pylos this morning a bit shell shocked and tired. What we thought was a sleepy, pretty town erupted at midnight last night and the music from the town blared out until 4am. On a Monday night! Crazy! So we didn't get too much sleep last night which is ok I suppose considering we were in a car park and paying nothing so we couldn't really complain and wouldn't have known who to complain to anyway.

So after deciding against staying at the lagoon we drove a bit further north to the campsite here at Kypirassia only to find a sign saying CAMPSITE CLOSED. So we parked up at the harbour, called at the Taverna, bought a beer, asked if we could park up and got the usual response - of course, why not? I said to the guy "Oh, the campsite is closed". He replied- "Yes, for 4years!" So much for the 2014 Camperstop book eh?

So here we are. Of course, we patronized the taverna this evening and had a lovely meal; one of the best we've had in Greece. I got the password for the WiFi and although I'm surprised to write this, thoroughly enjoyed watching Germany totally dismantle Brazil. I think if I had been playing for Brazil I'd have feigned an injury at half time so I wouldn't have had to come out for another 45 minutes of embarrassment.

I went for a walk along the harbour this evening and got talking to a guy fishing there. He said he was 77yrs old but looked younger than me; Mediterranean diet eh. I mentioned a rusty old hulk that was moored up and commented that maybe it had been there for a few years. No, he said, it's only been there a couple of months. It was found drifting out to sea with 200/250 African refugees aboard but no crew and had been towed back to harbour. He didn't know what had happened to the refugees and nobody knew who owned the boat. As we talked about it a pretty cool motor yacht cruised into the harbour. "Rich Greeks" he spat, "Never paid their taxes, don't pay them now and never will". We agreed that Greece has the same problems that every other European country has. Since the banking crisis the rich folk have got richer and the poor folk have paid the price. We agreed that it was ever thus. Our conversation was lifted a bit though as a turtle swam about in front of us. They lay their eggs on a beach a little to the north. First time I've seen a turtles head bobbing about.

Tomorrow I think we head for Pyrgos.

A moody photo across the harbour.

Pat.

 

 

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