Sunday, 8 September 2013

Wednesday 4th September 2013 – Volos, Greece

After a relaxing morning, we walked the short distance to the harbour front and had lunch at one of Norman & Deborah's favourite cafés. We had frappé (cold coffee) and both the special omelette and special crepe were huge and very tasty. As we walked to the ferry port we saw the Express Skiathos approaching the harbour and soon it was reversing to the dock. Jim and Ellen had come to see us off and there were lots of hugs and kisses before we boarded and waved frantically as the ferry departed. It was touching to see Jim waving his white handkerchief and using it to dab his eyes, although I suspect there was a little irony in his actions!
We walked to the bus station but had just missed the 19:00 bus so, faced with an hour and a half wait for the next one, we retraced our steps a short distance to find a small restaurant in a very traditional Volos eating area.
I chose the Greek equivalent of whitebait and Jane had a Greek salad which turned out to be huge and really interesting with lots of capers and caper plant. We shared the dishes and were totally full at the end of it.
The bus was very modern and very impressive, with on-board wifi, something that I haven't seen on buses (rather than coaches) in any other country. We arrived back at the campsite to find Henrietta in good shape and the spare wheel still fully inflated!
Photos: Skopelos Town with the Kastro hill on the right – taken from the ferry as we left Skopelos.


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