Wednesday, 26th June, 2019
Today we had a good lie in – I only woke up around 9 am and Gerry much later – so all our plans to go and climb the old city walls early morning fell through. And we were not going to walk up some 1.000 steps in the heat of the day!!
So we decided to have a somewhat relax day, sipping our coffee on our terrace and me doing some more travel planning and keeping up with my blog. Our German neighbors were already off for the day so we were totally on our own on our floor.
Later in the day we decided to go down for a swim – it was just down the road and some steps onto the rocky beach – gradually more locals came down too – I imagined us being seals or penguins basking on the rocks and soaking up the sun!! Some of the locals went fishing, putting out cages with loads of bread so as to entice the fish and others went off to catch octopus…….. but for us, we enjoyed the fresh and clear sea water and went in a couple of times for a refreshing dip.
Time to relax after a good swim
After a couple of hours we went up to our apartment to have a siesta. It was too hot to remain on the beach and by then there were more tourists who were spreading their towels on the pathway……..but we had a great time swimming! When we climbed up the steps, we needed a little break to catch our breath – so we had time to admire the craggiest shoreline and take some pictures as well as a selfie – that’s always fun trying to get both of us in the picture…….
After our siesta, we got ready to go into town – this time we caught the bus so we did not get all sticky and sweaty by the time we reached the old town. Our city card which we bought yesterday evening has proven quite useful with catching the bus – it’s much too hot to walk….
Once in town, we did attempt to climb up to the bastion walls, however the official entrance was already closed but we thought we could get up a different way – although we climbed many steps, we could not reach the top of the walls but we did enjoy some magnificent views.
But we did find a “hole in the wall” and were able to get out of the bastions only to see one of the pirate ships sailing out to the sunset……. later as we were having dinner we also saw these pirate ships returning to port!
Washing lines, electricity cables in the foreground and terra-cotta rooftops in the background
When we finally made our way down to the old port, I had worked up quite an appetite. We stopped at the same restaurant we went to last night x it has simple but good food so we could not go wrong here and even the wine and beer were good. Also it’s a good place to watch what is going on in the port and people strolling around. And when it started getting dark, the twinkling lights went on and it all looked so magical…….Very entertaining!
After dinner, we made it on time to catch the bus back to our apartment – we are having an early night as we plan to be back on the road tomorrow and well on time!
