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Serifos and Sifnos
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17 Oct - Today we have a big distance to cover - all the way to Serifos in the Cyclades, close to 10 hours sailing. The day is lovely and fine, and there's a reasonable sailing wind, which is great, but does mean enough of a wind chill that we need our windbreakers on. The boys and Janie all take turns at the helm, Tina is content to stretch out in the sun and read her book. And we all have jobs to do when Angelo wants to trim the sails or gybe. Unfortunately there's a bit of a swell which means the journey is not as pleasant for Lee and Chelle by the afternoon, but the rest of us enjoy the day immensely.
We dock late in the afternoon. The port of Serifos, Livahdi, is not large and basically just follows the long curved beach. We set off to explore, but are very soon back at the boat. There was some talk about taking the bus up to the village of Hora, high on the hill above the port (most islands have a Hora - they were established when pirates and attacks on ports were rife in the Agean) for dinner, but we are all tired and hungry (lunch was only a sandwich while we were sailing) so by unanimous vote we settle into a small port side restaurant and have an early dinner.
18 Oct - While we are heading for another island, Sifnos, today, its only a very short distance from Serifos, so we have heaps of time to do things today. And it's a lovely day to do them! We decide we need to go up to see Hora. Janie decides to run and Chris to walk up. The rest of us choose to take the bus, meet Janie and Chris at the top and walk down. While we wait for the bus, we can see Chris walking up the path, but Janie is out of view. The road zig zags up the mountain, while the path goes a more direct route and crosses the road at several points. We expect to see Chris and Janie while we go up on the bus, but no sign of either, even when we get to the top bus stop. This is not the highest point in the village - that's up further, crowned by a small church (there are lots of churches in this village), so up we go, through narrow winding alleys and stairways, all the way to the top...... The view is great - but still no sign of Chris or Janie!
As we start heading down, we finally catch a glimpse of Janie - almost back down at the boat. A very impressive run! The rest of us amble down and when we finally arrive back at the boat, Chris and Janie are both there, refreshed after showers. Chris took the bus down, but both of them saw us arrive, then we lost each other in the maze of little alleys (which is amazing, cos it wasn't that big a village - just incredibly compact). We head off to Sifnos and before very long, we arrive at a beautiful little cove. Its such a lovely day, Angelo has taken us here so we can swim. We break out the masks and snorkels and jump in. ITS BLOODY COLD!!!!! However, it is lovely and clear and there are fishes all around, so we play around for a while, until its just too cold in the water and we all get out to drape ourselves around the boat to dry off in the wonderful sun, while Angelo takes us around to the main Sifnos port, Kamares, to moor for the night. Kamares itself is not impressive, but 5 kms up in the hills beyond the port is the town of Apollonia - a georgeous white wash and blue shuttered village, meandering its way around a few low peaks and saddles at the top of the range at the centre of the island. We take a couple of taxis up to Apollonia and wander around - it is a really beautiful little town! We find a bar that looks out across the island to the east, to Paros - our next destination and sit contentedly watching the orange and pinks of the sunset wrap around the world we can see. We could sit there forever..... But we finally make a move and walk on another km to what was another small village, but now is just an extension of Apollonia, where we find a restaurant highly recommended in some of the travel guides. There is an interesting selection of dishes - some are not too keen on eating bunny (especially after we saw them in the meat market in Athens, fully skinned except for their white fluffy paws and ears), but the rabbit casserole is wonderful.....
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