The Last of the Mohicans

 I have just watched our last foreign visitor, for this year,  walk up the gangplank and away.

I wondered what our visitor, Cassidy, would do on Poros in November.  He managed to fill his days quite well. Once it stopped raining and the sun came out.

He arrived during a bad storm. No boats sailing for 2 days.  But after a few phone calls he found the bus station in Athens and came around by road. Amazing what you can do when you're young, fearless and armed with an iPhone.

Our little car ferry was still sailing. It's only a 10 minute journey from the mainland village to the island. We picked him up from the harbour in drenching rain.

Next day the sun eventually poked it's head out and we did a drive around the island. Then I left him to explore by himself.  He found the free ebikes which I had forgotten about and cycled around the town.

Each visitor rekindles my love of Greece in a different way. I enjoyed the ancient theatre of Epidavros again with our last visitors. I learnt a lot seeing  the ruins of the healing centre with my English cousins.  Hearing their observations brought the stones to life. 

Both my cousins back in October and now Cassidy  made me realise how much I need to relearn about Poros.

Cassidy is studying Ancient History, loves archeology, speaks Chinese, is learning Greek.  He impressed me with his knowledge, of languages and Greek and Roman history. 

On our way back from a day in Nafplio I managed to get K to stop at the impressive 3,000 year old bridge.  Cassidy has visited this area before and seen many of the ancient sites but he hadn't seen this.

He's a philhellene. An admirer of Greek culture, history and language

An obligatory photo up at the Monastery.  

Once the rain stopped we had beautiful days.  This peaceful sun kissed beach was so inviting.  He went swimming several times.

The young and the fearless!

Cassidy said it was warmer than the Tasman sea. Maybe it was but you wouldn't see me sticking more than a big toe in the water in November

He was lucky, some may say, to join in and meet more of the family at our beginning-of-December Sagittarian birthday bash.

Half the family are in Athens studying or working but he met our daughters and my dear English 'sister' Jan.  We had a nice noisy day eating food that was more foreign than Greek and drinking prosecco.  

We have 5 family birthdays in 10 days. One of them is mine and I try and make sure it's one day that we don't eat Greek food. 

It was still very Greek though. 

 Sweet n sour pork.  Stuffed chicken roll. Coleslaw. 

But also........ 

Tiropitakia (cheese pies). Lemon potatoes. And K had fried some offal.

All cooked with olive oil, oregano, and  lemon juice. You can't escape that combo. And there was tzatziki and a Greek salad. 

Everyone was happy. 

We wish Cassidy more marvellous travels.  It was great meeting you.