Last night at dinner Dimitri marked up this map with a circle and a dot.  He said his friend has a Taverna on the island of Archangelos and he can take us over there @11:30 if we would like.  OK, sounds good.  The red line on the map is basically the only road so we take the bus in that direction.  We have been told that the bus driver looks like Robert Downey Jr.  I think Robert is off today!  He drives with the horn honking almost constantly.  Not in an angry way, but in “hi, I’m here kind of way”.  There is a woman that is getting off at the Marina, so we figure that is the place we need to be so we get off too.

We walk past a big shipyard.  As we get closer we see this big boat carrying apparatus 🙂 bringing a boat from the ocean.  We walk past this and we aren’t sure we are in the right spot.  We walk back to where the bus dropped us and find a sign map that turns us back again.  We get there and now see people waiting at a dock, so go to see if this is where we should be.  We show the map Dimitri marked up and the guy on the boat nods and asks, you will take the water taxi back?  We recall something like that from last night and agree.

We laugh as we have no idea how we actually got to the correct place 🙂  We board the boat with 8 other people who seem to know each other.  The woman next to me asks where we are from and we find out that she and her husband are from Germany, the rest are from the Netherlands and have all been coming to Leros for 20 years.  They have a house here and spend 6 months at a time.  Not long after we leave the boat turns back.  Apparently there are 2 other people to come.  A Greek couple now board the crowded boat.

We are travelling with the owner of the Taverna on the island.  He comes to the big island for supplies and takes people back to his place where there is a small beach and his Taverna Stigma.  His customers are the people he brings as well as boaters that anchor in the bay.

 

The water here is soooo beautiful.

 

 

We have some refreshments in the Taverna before we head down to the beach.

 

 

 

 

At lunch time the beach is deserted as everyone heads up the hill to the Taverna to enjoy their menu.

 

 

 

The German lady tells me that their group wants to leave @ 5PM.  If that is ok with us we can all share the water taxi cost,  Works for us 🙂  There are 14 people on this small boat.  Quite crowded and I am sure there aren’t nearly enough life jackets on board, if any.  Just thinking again on the different standards there are at home compared to a place like this.

We survive and start to walk back to where the bus dropped us off.  We will walk a bit further to the town not too far away and catch the bus back.  The Germans and the Netherlanders wave as they pass us.  The Greek couple, stops and asks where we are going.  He then jumps out of the car and hustles us into the backseat.  They are going right near Papafotis, to the spot we caught the bus this morning.  Perfect.  He has fairly good English, his wife not so much.  Very kind of them.  She is from Leros and lives here 3 months of the year, the rest in Athens.  They are going back to Athens on Sunday as they need to vote in their election.

Another GREAT DAY!  🙂