Saturday, October 15, 2011

Travel Blogging VI

Katakolon, Greece: We are at the place where the original Olympics happened some 2800 years ago. Naturally, the weather stinks and the archeological site is closed by a strike. The pax are bummed.

Weather at this time of year is iffy – yesterday was beautiful and today gray and rainy. We’re in Corfu tomorrow and I hope we get beautiful again as Corfu is a wonderful place. When someone waxes poetic about the Greek Isles I think of Corfu, as does the other DrC. More about Corfu tomorrow.

Absent the archeological site there isn’t much to do here in Katakolon; the ship is full of less-than-fully-gruntled paying passengers. People aren’t big readers these days so, unlike myself, most aren’t snuggled up with a good book. A lot of eating is happening, as well as card playing and conversation.

I’d think I’d be seeing many Kindles, and their ilk in use – nope, maybe in the cabins. The captain is running the bow thrusters while we’re tied up to the pier – can the wind be that strong? Our cabin is in the bow and it’s noisy.