It's all slowed down!

We are still parked up tonight at Camping Finikes and I suspect we will be until next Monday. We have to get to Patras to catch the ferry to Venice on the 11th so if we set off on Monday it's gives us a few easy days driving up the west coast of the Peloponnese.

We've been in Greece for six weeks now and a lot of the time it has a bit of a whirlwind. Most days we've been driving and the most time we have stopped anywhere has been three days. We've loved every minute of it and we know we will come back to this fabulous country again but just for now we are spending a few days (just over a week, actually) chilling out and enjoying doing doing absolutely nothing each day.

The folk on this campsite are lovely. Yesterday we wanted to go to Finikounda, a small town a few kilometres down the road. We couldn't be bothered to get the motorhome ready for such a short journey and it was too hot to walk so we asked the campsite owner, Spiros, if he would call us a taxi. He offered us a couple of bikes we could borrow but Phil wasn't too keen on that idea and then a Swedish couple who were just leaving offered us a lift. Great, said Spiros, take a lift with them, take my phone number, ring me when you want to come back and I'll pick you up. The generosity of people we meet on our travels never ceases to amaze us. We hear so many stories from fellow travellers along the same lines. They ask directions in Albania, for example, and people don't just point them in the direction they need to go; they get their cars or motorbikes out and lead them to their destinations.

Of course, there are people that we can't quite like so much. Like the Italian dude parked opposite us who goes to the beach everyday and catches fish for his lunch. I've been fishing for three days days now with no success. I could ask him what his secret is but when he walks past holding up the days catch and smiling at me I just don't want to give him the satisfaction. Hope he doesn't choke on any fish bones.

The little port of Finikounda.

Pat.

 

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