17 March
2025 – Busy Doing Nothing
Miles
driven today = 55
Total Miles
to date = 2,091
It’s St
Paddy’s Day.
Top of the morning to ya!
This was the view which greeted me this
morning as I stumbled bleary eyed in my PJs to the shower block.
But we weren’t tempted to hang around and were
still determined to get in some relaxation and beach time today before the
weather takes a distinct turn for the worse tomorrow.
Heading due
East from Sparti towards the Coast would have involved some tortuous driving on
mountain roads, so instead we headed North on the E961 towards Tripoli (no not
the Libyan one) before veering East and following the Tanos Valley.
The scenery
was stunning but unfortunately opportunities to pull over and admire our
surroundings, and also allow the irate locals to pass, were few and far
between.
We wriggled
our way through the narrow streets of Astros and shortly afterwards we hit the beach
at its coastal satellite of Paralio Astros.
I hadn’t
really researched this stretch of coastline until last night and I found a
couple of potential
overnight spots on
Park4Night.
But whilst looking at the
satellite view of the area on Google Maps I noticed there were a number of
motorhomes parked up on this stretch of beach and so we headed here first and
found no reason to look any further.
There were
5 vans here already when we parked up including 2 fellow Brits.
We had a long chat with one of the
couples.
They are full timers, both
having Irish passports. This is their fourth visit here and they have already
been here for 5 nights on this occasion, so there is obviously no problem with
parking here out of season.
So this
afternoon we have really done very little other than take a stroll along the
beach.
I did brave the waters for my
second swim of the trip and embarrassed myself by having to crawl back out
again due to the steeply shelving sand just beyond the water’s edge.
But the
rest of the day has basically been spent coming good on the promise to
ourselves to do as little as absolutely possible, which really isn’t terribly
difficult when you have this view to stare at.
We even
took a night off cooking and washing up.
Our neighbour recommended Mavrogiannis, which is the first restaurant
you reach walking along the seafront towards the town.
Lisa getting stuck into yet another Greek
Salad.
We were
shown the contents of the fish chiller and were surprised to see they had some
sole.
Most fish in Greek restaurants is
sold by the kilo, which often puts me off because I can’t haggle in Greek but
these 2 came to just €22 the pair and were straight in the deep fat fryer and
on the table in barely 10 minutes.
By the time
we left the Sun had set behind us and was just casting the last of its rays on
the hills on the far side of the Argolic Gulf.
27 degrees yesterday is due to drop to a maximum of just 8 by Wednesday
and there is some rain in the forecast for tomorrow afternoon.
So our thoughts are that we will probably sit
tight for another day and have a bit of a poke around the resort before
battening down the hatches.
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