Visitors!!

 Extended family from the Netherlands arrived for a few days holiday.  Europeans are still travelling, by air or car or train and boat.  The yacht harbour is filling up and groups of pink foreigners roam in shorts and Tshirts, quickly turning red as beets. 

Jesca, and her husband with the difficult dutch name, hired e-bikes and toured the island, 

Going swimming along the way

Jesca was another local alien back in the 80s, married to a cousin of Ks back then

On their bike tour she took a couple of photos which I thought I'd post here. They're much sharper than mine

Looking back towards the main town

The hill on the left, covered with houses, is Poros island.  The bare hills on the right are the mainland 

Teachers island (Daskalio) with the mainland mountains on the far side of the strait

The small church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It's a popular place for weddings

The photos below have just appeared on Facebook, posted by the owner of the water taxi John Nakis. He does trips to the island in the summer and has cleared, strimmed and whitewashed the church and surrounds for the summer season

Water taxi Socrates, and Captain Kyriakos, ferry wedding guests to the island and take visitors out for a swim in the tranquil blue waters.

I remember going with him on one trip when he had a group of English tourists, frequent visitors, who had brought back their father's ashes to scatter in the sea around the island. 

It was all very low key  and the wind was blowing in the right direction LoL 

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