Pátmos

Trip Start Jun 29, 2008

Trip End Oct 01, 2008

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Flag of Greece Pátmos, Dodecanese, Greece
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Patmos was a very short stop - only a few hours. We pulled into a bay surrounded by tall, rocky mountains - dry, brown and desolate, dotted with white buildings with arches. Patmos has been a place of pilgrimage ever since the discovery that this small, rocky island is where St. John the Divine is said to have dictated the text of "Revelations" to his pupil Prochoros in AD 95. In AD 1088 the monk Christodoulos Latrenos founded a great, fortified monastery in honour of St. John and it has been a place of scholarship and religious enlightenment ever since. I didn't feel the need to pay about a million euro to go and see this monastery unfortunately, but I looked at it from below, and it did seem quite impressive. I tried a cheese pie of Patmos, with "Patmos cheese", which was absolutely shit. Never have a Patmos cheese pie. I was longing for the Greek cheese pie that I had in Meteora, which was absolutely amazing. Straight out of the oven. I took advantage of the island's free wireless internet and chilled out on the rocky, rather brown coloured beach. By that stage, it was already time to get on the tender boat back to the ship. On the way back, I danced with the cute Cuban sailor on the deck, and then got a photo of me pretending that I was driving the boat.