Wednesday 16 November 2011
Dave had a frustrating day at the yard and was feeling lonely and miserable and I was writing late to meet a competition deadline, so we stopped work for a couple of days and got on with some jobs around the homestead. Finally – the shed got painted, even the tricky bit over the top of the water heater, using a brush on the end of a broom pole.
On the Friday we went for a scramble – the weather was perfect, sunny, not too hot, and we wanted to explore a cave signposted near the village of Syvros. It was fabulous scenery, and we found a footpath that took us up an empty watercourse, all big round boulders and little white pebbles. We kept going until the amount of rock climbing outweighed the amount of gentle strolling, feeling our age we walked/scrambled/climbed back down. Lots of fun. We scrumped a few rocks that had been dug out as a result of the Greek approach to places of natural beauty: put a quarry there; and we picked sage and fennel seeds to see if they will germinate.
Lovely wiggly root formations in the old stream bed.
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