Today started cloudy and windy.  The sea was covered with white horses.  I will have to hope the wind dies down for an afternoon or evening flight.

Today I first walked to the castle.  This is presently being excavated and renovated with money from the EU.  The castle seemed to have many small houses inside its walls, each of which was being excavated.  There were good views from the seaward wall.

From the castle, back to the Neos Panteleimonas, where I was staying.

Inside the castle.

After walking around the castle, I walked into Platmonas, changed some money into Drax and had some sardines for lunch.  Platamonas is larger that Neo Pantelemonas, but has mainly seaside type tourist shops.  Harbour with some boats.

Walked back to the flat, read a bit, then down to the sea for a swim.

Stelios told me about the excavations down by the railway line.  He had an uncle who was working on the site.  The construction pf the new railway line (funded by the EU) was stopped while they excavated an ancient cave city.  Apparently many skelatons had been excavated.

One of many excavated caves in the hillside.

There were also stone built dwellings which were being excavated.  These were covered over with temporary roofs.

I was told that this was not the first delay on the new railway line.  The otherside of the tunnel, which I had walked past on the way to Platamonas, had also been excavated.

I had supper in the village at 9.30.  This time I chose a different restaurant.  There were several different ones in the square.  At this one a had a mixed starter of Tzajiki, Aubergine, taramasalata and chickpeas.  For the main course I had veal stew.

During the night there was a very large thunderstorm.  It woke me with quite a start.  One strike was so close, I could barely distinguish between the lightning and thunder.  Interesting because a quarter of a second before the lighting strike, I could hear a tearing sound.