Day 98: Tuesday 24 June – A Lazy Day In Aginara, by Ken

We didn’t wake up until 06:30 which is late for us. Probably something to do with losing the hour as we moved on to Greek time. Outside it was light, but the sun wasn’t up yet. It felt cool, Mabel’s gauge read 17°, which was cool after the heat of the day yesterday.

Mabel and Smarty At Aginara Beach

At around 08:00 the Greek Airforce gave the camping ground a morning wake up call as two fighters from a nearby airbase climbed out over the camping ground.

Apart from the airforce's interruption we had a quiet start to the day making good use of the wi-fi. I prepared more blog for publishing while Jane added to her Facebook photographs. I find off an email to TomTom expressing dissatisfaction with their service. Anna who is in a UK registered left hand drive van parked next to us stopped to talk. We had met her yesterday, she spoke in what my Mum would have called a ‘county voice’ – English, posh. She has lived in Madrid since finishing university, I would guess that would have been 30 years ago, at least. We didn’t get a clear fix on her relationship with Chris with whom she is sharing the van. He obviously travels a lot in the van and she catches up with him from time to time.

Anna had been told there are loggerhead turtles on the beach at 5:00 am. She had gone down there at 5:30 but hadn’t seen anything. Chris dropped by and gave us some good tips on places to see and stay in Turkey as well as demonstrating a Dutch App that he had found very useful in locating good camping grounds. A good thing about it was you didn't need an internet connection to use it. Jane made a note to download it to her iPad.

It was getting very hot under Mabel’s awning, her gauge read 38° which is possibly optimistic, but it was hot. We headed to the beach for an hour and lazed in the shade of our beach umbrella before returning to Mabel for lunch of bread and cheese. After lunch I did some more blogging and Jane continued to work on Facebook. Then it was back to the beach for some serious relaxation for the rest of the afternoon.

Jane Seriously Relaxed On The Beach

A German Family Spent Much Of The Afternoon Sailing

We returned to the taverna for dinner ordering a mixed vegetable starter and grilled swordfish for me and  fried calamari for Jane. After quite a long wait we were surprised when our mains came out and we hadn’t had our starter. We decided to stick with just the mains. My swordfish was very good, Jane described her calamari as average. When the bill arrived with two complimentary glasses of ouzo it included the starter which I queried. After a lot of debate among the staff the manager came over, apologised and knocked the price of the starter off the bill.

Taverna 

We had an early night planning to get up early in the morning and see if we could spot any turtles on the beach.