We spent one night on the Kamares beach and it was a pretty quiet night. Keith seems to have resolved the gas issue with the fridge we think we’ve has some dirty gas in the tank which we purchased in Italy so we’ll see how things go over the next few days.
After a morning swim and breakfast on the beach we head further up the coast.
We stop at the bakery on the way and I bought a lovely spinach and feta pasty then stopped at the town of Githio to get fresh fruit and vegetables.
It’s very hot again today, not that we’re complaining at all and it’s hard to believe that we have the hottest months yet to come and we’re beginning to wonder how we’re going to cope, but we’ll have to sort that out when it happens. Our Guernsey skin is so brown we’re both beginning to question our parentage.
We mosquitoes are out and we’ve been lucky to have only a few bites each but this is spoiling our beautiful tans with red itchy bites reminding us they are around. We’ve bought mosquito spray which we spray in the van before we go to bed. Have you heard a mosquito buzzing in your ear at 2am in the morning they sound like a kamikaze fighter jet ready to do the dirty deed only by the time you hear them it’s too late because they’ve already taken a meal out of you.
Our free spot for today is in a carpark at next to the beach where there is a huge shipwreck right on the shore, called the Dimitrios Shipwreck.
Don’t know anything about how long it’s been here I’m afraid, but it looks like at least 60 years.
There’s a couple of campers here already so we find our spot and head off to sunbathe on the beach for the rest of the afternoon. On the way to the beach one of those ugly snakes crosses rights in front of us, they are dam ugly, sorry still no photo.
There doesn’t seem to be any nude bathing since we’ve left the forest camping but that hasn’t stopped Keith from whipping off his pants at every opportunity when there’s no one around. I’ll put you in the picture, not literally, we were sat outside Eugene reading in the middle of the day I went inside to get a drink, come back out and he’s taken his pants off sitting there reading with it all out on show and he’s moaning he’s got mosquito bites on his arse lol.
It was a quiet night but we’re moving on today, didn’t quite get the feel for this place.
We head further north, we need to find some water and empty the toilet. Our first stop is not ideal, the beach stinks and the water is turned off, so after a bit of lunch we move off.
We get about 10 minutes up the road when we come across a car pointing the wrong way on the other side of the road, it’s obviously been on its roof and the contents of the car are shed all over the road.
We slow down and realise there’s someone in the car. We stop and my police mode starts kicking in and I’m yelling at Keith to call an ambulance or the police. The driver is conscious and bleeding a little from his mouth probably from the airbag hitting him in the face. One Greek word from him and it’s very clear I don’t need to understand him, or get him to walk the line, stand on one foot, or close his eyes and touch his nose, he’s very drunk and judging from his eyes drugged up too. The driver is a hippy type with long dreadlocks and filthy clothes and judging by the contents of the car he’s been living in it. I’m trying to establish if he’s okay, he’s speaking Greek and I just don’t understand, is he saying he’s okay or is he saying he’s injured, I give him the thumbs up, but he just carries on talking and doesn’t acknowledge the thumbs up. I have no idea if he’s trapped.
Within a few minutes we flag down a passing car an old Greek guy, he only speaks Greek, he doesn’t get out his car but winds down his window and shouts across to the driver, then motions to me that the drivers been drinking and then drives off.
Keith and I are at a loss what to do, our phones don’t work, and even if they did how would we tell anyone what’s happened and where we are, the driver is still talking so he’s not dying thank goodness.
Another car comes pass and we flag it down another conversation with the driver and he also drives off. We can’t believe nobody is stopping to help, what’s wrong with these people, what is the conversation between them.
The next vehicle is a German campervan they speak a little English. I explain that we’ve come across the accident, the driver is inside the car I don’t know if he’s trapped and the two locals we’ve stopped have driven off. At the same time the driver gets himself out the car and staggers over to us.
There’s a bit of conversation between the driver and the Germans. The Germans tell me the driver is okay and he’s sorry. The Germans don’t know what we can do he’s too drunk for either of us to feel safe enough to put him in our vans so we make the decision the driver is okay and not injured and the car is in drivable. I kick all his stuff off the road and we agree to leave him there in the hope that the other drivers would have contacted the emergency services. I’d like to think that if the driver had been injured those drivers would have stopped to help us. Feeling bad but we have no options but to leave him and we carry on along the coast.
We find our next stop at Mpozas by the beach next to a Taverna which is closed for the winter. There’s water and somewhere we can empty the toilet and a couple of beach showers.
There’s 3 German campers here already and the place is ideal.
We stay here for 5 days for the first 3 days we don’t see anyone come down to the beach, it’s so peaceful and quiet. On the Saturday the Taverna opened for the season and during the day there was a steady stream of customers, where had they all come from, how do they know this taverna in the middle of nowhere is open and why didn’t they leave until 2am in the morning?
The weather is hot and very sunny but the wind is unpredictable. One minute there’s not a breath of air the next it’s blowing a gale.
We purchased a blowup sea kayak about 15 years ago, only used it a hand full of times at home and we’ve bought it with us and we bought new buoyancy aids to wear so we don’t drown. The sea is like a mill pond this morning so we get sorted and head out across the bay for a couple of hours. The water is crystal clear we can see the fish, rocks and there’s loads of underwater caves. We stop at a small harbour which is deserted not a soul around. The next morning we go the other side of the bay in and out of the small covers. It’s so peaceful.
The town is about 8 miles away and our German neighbors who have a motorbike pop in to town every morning to get fresh bread and get us some as well which is great.
There’s loads of olive and orange groves around here and on one of our little walks I have to stop to sample the produce before we commit ourselves to buy. Oranges straight from the tree are absolutely delicious nothing like those tough stringy things you get at home, so a weeks worth in my rucksack should make sure they are good before we buy?
My birthday was spent kayaking in the morning, lunch sitting in the sun, afternoon on the beach, dinner sat outside Eugene with a bottle of wine to soak up the most beautiful sunset, apart from the kids not being here it was an absolutely perfect day.
When we were in Italy we walked 14 miles in one day and averaged 35 & 40 miles a week, since we’ve arrived in Greece I’m not sure we’ve even managed to walk 14 miles in the last month. Our healthy app on our phones think we’ve died lol.
And Keith needs some photography lessons on how to make me look like I’m having a shower like those lovely girls in ‘I’m a Celebrity get me out of Here’. 
After 5 days it’s time to move on the taverna is now open and we can’t afford to have a meal here everyday to enable us to stay unfortunately.
We check out the wildlife and the forna which is wonderful.
Our mission today is to get some more data because we’ve run-out already and some gas. Snooper takes us on a bit of a drive, around Sark to get to Herm, so to speak, but we find a small town called Molaoi and sort out the data. We’ve got a sim with Vodafone but the continuity of the signal is rubbish but we’re struggling to find another provider so will have to do with Vodafone for now. We’ve had a bit of a gas leak Keith noticed that all the connections in the gas locker were loose, not sure why or how that’s happened as it had a service before we left home, but Keith sorts it out. We find the gas 12km from the town then have to come back on ourselves to get to our next camperstop at Pounta.
This stop wasn’t as it appeared on the apps, which suggested that we just rock up at the sand dunes and find our place and probably stay a week. The sand dunes were just that sand dunes and absolutely no good for a 2 wheel drive 3.85ton motorhome.
We decide to stay at the Oasis taverna. We can stay overnight if we have a meal, there’s water, somewhere to empty the toilet and a shower which is right beside the road, but its a shower and we need one lol.
Camping is not allowed which means we can’t get out our table and chairs, but this doesn’t matter because we’re off to the beach. The wind was so strong we had to hide away in the sand dunes. We watched the boats coming and going from Elafonisos Island and one boat in particular looked like a skeleton boat, it looked very strange.
After spending the afternoon in the sand dunes with Elafonisos Island across the bay, we have a lovely meal at the taverna, they certainly know how to cook a pork steak which was delicious.
We are struggling with the internet in Greece the signal is up and down but we will try and keep you updated as best we can.
Don’t forget you can follow us on Polarsteps which shows out live location and all the stops we’ve been.
Have a great weekend
A la Perchoine
Shirena & Keith
You seem to be having a great time in Greece – sun, sea and sand! Keep enjoying the weather, cos I’m sure when you head further north later in the year, you will wish you had bottled some of the heat and sunshine. And the vision of Keith stripping off at a moments notice is hilarious – maybe he has found his true vocation in life? Take care and be safe, love reading your blog and seeing the photos. Ali xx