There is only 1 geocache on this island.  It has only been found 3 or 4 times and the last time was almost a year ago.  We decide that today should be the day we attempt this.  We start off with our standard 4 km walk to Agia Marina, where we caught the boat yesterday.  The cache has multiple locations and it says the starting point is at the parking lot next to the elementary school, or what they call the “Basic School”.  By the time we arrive it is about 11:30 am.  We hear children playing inside the walls and the parking lot has parents and grandparents sitting in their cars waiting for the children to be dismissed.

So here I am (Stu as usual wants nothing to do with this geeky activity, is sitting in the shade across the street outside of a shop), skulking around outside an elementary school.  Poking around, probably looking very suspicious.  As I am looking about Stu is watching the school pickup process here on Leros.  He feels that it is way more organized and less chaotic than it is at Alex and Adam’s school.  It is quite a crazy scene after school in Maple Ridge.

Anyway, I decide that I have spent enough time looking and being creepy so we need to move on.  We carry on up to the town square of Platanos.  Sit in the shade of the fountain again and watch this little town become gridlocked.  Five vehicles I think 🙂

We take a road to the west that we haven’t taken before.  It is a very neat little street.  We see some scooters but no cars and Stu remarks that this is likely just for scooters and bikes.  I look at the street and say “ya right”.  If a car will fit, it will be a car street.

From the end of this street we have a great view of the windmills up on the hill.  From where we are it looks like the only way up is along the road.  We do plenty of road walks and decide that isn’t what we really want to do.

So we head back down to the ocean to the village of Panteli. We didn’t see this when we had the car day.  It is lovely.  Not much vehicle traffic.  Lots of restaurants and shops.

We walk to the east end of the bay and back to Castle Beach Restaurant where we order big beers and an order of cheese saganaki (which is my all time favourite Greek food) and calamari.  Restaurants here in Greece generally bring you bread and charge a Euro per person. Today they brought the bread and a little pot of a buttery looking concoction.

We asked what it was, the fellow says garlic butter and blue cheese and some black and white sesame seeds. Oh my god it was SOOO GOOD!! I’ll have to try it at home.  Well worth the Euro!!

Chatting with the server at the end, he mentioned that there might be a secret ingredient or two 🙂  Oh well, we can experiment too.  This is the view from our table.