Patmos
Wonderful, rickety jetties in Patmos where they will use anything they find to construct the walkway.
We drove up to the monastery above the town (another one!) and this was the view back to the harbour.
A peaceful, serene place
Coffee on the balcony before walking back down to the car.
Naxos
Ros left us in Patmos and caught the ferry back to Kos to fly home from there. We left Patmos at 3.30am and sailed across to a small island called Dhenoussa - quite a rough sail so we were pleased to drop anchor in a bay there. We have now left the Dodecanese and are in the Cyclades. The next morning was quite the opposite and we had very little wind so drifted across to Naxos where we met Mari and Pete off the ferry from Santorini.
They really do like their blue paint in the Cyclades!!
A real maze of tiny alleyways
A "castle" wall built using parts of columns etc removed from ancient sites.
Mari at the helm sailing from Naxos to Paros where we stayed a few days while the meltemi (strong north wind) went through.
Delos
From Paros north to Rhinia for an overnight anchorage and then on to Delos the next morning. A large ancient site that was once the political and religious centre of the ancient world. It is believed that Delos was the best anchorage between Europe and Asia and in the centre of the trading route from the Dardenelles to Crete. We did not find it to be a good anchorage!! It took a while to get the anchor to dig in through the weed and also a lot of other boats had already anchored there.
The site has been likened to Pompeii as there is so much remaining that you get a good picture of what life was like there.
Five lean lions guard the sacred lake.
Sharing the view over the site with a lizard.
We made it to the top on a very hot day!
Mikonos
Next stop was Mikonos marina where we sat out the meltemi - again!
On the second day when we felt the boat was more secure and the winds had dropped a bit, we caught the seabus into Mikonos town.
Old windmills above the town.
"Little Venice" along the shoreline.
Mari buying a shawl straight off the loom from the lady who had made it.
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