Peace and quiet!

Becky and Charlie went home yesterday, since when we have been washing, cleaning, tidying and shopping ready to set of to Samos to pick up Lin's brother John next Monday.
We left you last Saturday, 29 June, in Agathonisi, where we tied up to the town quay. Charlie spent the morning playing on the town beach.

In the afternoon he went to Maria's shop,

 where he loved Maria's husband

rode on Nikos's plane

 and played with Mara's children, Nikos and Panayotta.

When we left, Maria gave Charlie a lolly,

which he took with him to dinner at Yanni's

At Yanni's Charlie took photos of us all:

and a lot of photos of trousers and feet

On Sunday morning we were the last to leave the quay.

Charlie got his lifejacket on.

We had a fast sail over to Lipsi, where we picked up a mooring at Kapsadia

Becky even swam 

 while Lin and Charlie looked on in amazement.

 We had a delicious lunch in the taverna (though Charlie did not appreciate the more sophisticated food)

 A kitten got stuck on the palm roof.

Becky rescued it and Charlie played with it

chasing it around the restaurant.

 After lunch we went back to the beach, where Charlie tried on grandpa's hat.

 Charlie was tired, so we went back to the boat and had a fast sail to Lakki, where we tied up on the town quay.

 On Monday morning, 1st July, we walked round to Merikia beach in the morning. After lunch we hired a car for Becky's last day and drove to Crithoni's Paradise, where Charlie had a great time in the pool, swimming on grandpa's shoulders

 before strangling grandpa

and playing with two Greek girls, playing shy at first.

 

 Once Becky had packed on Tuesday morning we drove over to Xerokampos, where we spent the morning on the beach before having a good lunch at Aloni Taverna.

 Charlie was fascinated by the lobsters in the tank

 and the huge octopus in a bucket

 which Charlie did not like the look of.

 In the taverna was a swallow's nest with hungry baby swallows

while the parents swooped around us.
Charlie took some bread and fed the ducks

 then went over to feed a shy drake.

After lunch we went back to Lakki to put Becky and Charlie on the ferry to Kos for their flight home. In the waiting room Charlie made friends with two Greek Australian kids.

Then it was time to board the catamaran

and off they went for a bumpy ride to Kos.