We thought about the bus again today, but since it is Sunday we aren’t sure if it is even running so we rent a car for the day.  It isn’t fancy, thank goodness.  This is what 25 Euros gets you in Leros.  It is banged up and has about 110,000 kms on it.

 

We drive past the airport to a place called Partheni.  According to the map the road ends at one of the many many churches on the island.  We see this sign and say “okay – no death today” and turn around. 🙂

 

There are not many roads on this island so we try them all.  This one leads us to this little church called “Agios Isodoros” on a little island and according to the description on the map “it communicates with the mainland by a small passage”  I call it a causeway.

 

We drive toward Lakki.  This is the town we arrived to on the ferry.  The cab wisked us away quickly so we didn’t really get a look at the place.  Apparently this town was built by the Italians in the 1930’s during a time of their occupation.  The architecture is quite unique from anything else on the island.

We park with the idea of stopping for a bit of lunch.  We choose a place with a nice outdoor eating area along the water.  We begin a conversation with a British couple sitting at the next table.  They are here on their sail boat.  The fellow told us that he spent a day in handcuffs in the prison here the other day.   They picked up some refugees on the ocean outside the bay.  The refugees were in an inflatable raft and were holding up their children to them.  It was obviously heart breaking so they picked them up and brought into port.

While we sat there we saw about 100 people being escorted to an official looking building.  It appeared that they had just arrived.

The British couple left and some new people came to sit.  They were also speaking English.  They told us they had just been helping out with the refugees.  There had been a tragic sinking of a ship outside of Leros last night.  Many people died.  They didn’t know the exact numbers, but thought it could be as high as 50.  They had helped a man who had lost his wife and child.  Very sad situation.

We carried on our island tour.  Found this spot with many many mast of boats and the Castle in the background.

There are a lot of people who store their boats here and fly home in the winter and then fly back in the spring.

 

We see all kinds of boats.

 

 

The little quaint ones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

and the bigger splashy ones.

 

 

We finish our island tour and head back to home base.