Thursday 24 September 2015

Thursday 24 September 2015 – Samos

We are still in Samos.  We were woken up at about 7am with a terrible shower.  The rain was pelting down and we had left all the hatches open to get some air through the boat.  So Richard had to run around closing things and mopping up. We just went back to bed.  When we got up an hour or so later the sky was very dark and threatening.  Also I had another terrible attack of sciatica, such that I couldn’t walk for about 2 hours until the pain killers kicked in.

So with all that going on we decided not to move on.  When I felt better we walked into the town, Pythagorio.  As the name suggests this island was the home of Pythagoras, him of the right angled triangles.  The town is really cute.  The pilot book suggested that we should stay in the town on the town pier.  But when we got there the pier was full and a lot of boats are anchored in the bay.  So as the town is only about 10 minutes walk from our boat we are pleased we moored in the marina.

We had expected to see signs of the immigrant influx here as the island is only one mile from the Turkish mainland.  On the walk to the town we did see some signs of the migrant problem.  There were at least two, if not three deflated large ribs and a number of life jackets discarded on the shoreline.  However, we saw no actual migrant people at all.  We have no idea where they could have gone.  We are also perplexed about what propels the boats.  They have transoms on which one would put an engine, but we have seen no engines and no oars.

In town we got to see most of the sights.  There is a castle with some old ruins nearby.  Then we went to the archaeological museum, which was very nice.  One really good aspect was that it is attached to a dig of the site of the old city of Samos and it puts the ruins in context.  We then saw the sculpture of Pythagoras.  We couldn’t see the ancient tunnel, which is closed, but that was OK.  I was getting tired.


Then we went back to the boat for a rest before going back to the village for dinner.  All very nice.  We will go to the next town on this island tomorrow.  The weather forecast looks much better.

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