Nisos Skiros, the bike tour, day one the south of the island. 8.6.2013
The yacht port manager is a friendly fellow so I asked him where I could hire a little motorbike. ….. he has just started a business doing this. My receipt was numbered 0004, so a pretty new venture. He only had a 50cc bike but assured me it would go well. He was right and when I spoke to him later he explained he was a mechanic and derestricted them himself. The clock stopped at 85kph but the needle went well past that…..great. A bit of livestock… ……some road builders lunchbreak sculpture…. ….and some more… A Skiros horse. Apparently they are a very old breed, quite small living wild in small groups. A helpful notice so you don’t get lost…. ….a less helpful notice. This is pointing in the direction of a military base and Rupert Brooke’s tomb. The tomb and…… …the famous poem. A photograph of a sign…….oops. The long and winding road, well a track really. Some religious graffiti….. …..and a natural spring where I earlier saw some chaps filling up old water bottles and loading up a car with them. |