Wednesday 24  September

Quiet day today – spent this morning on the beach swimming etc and calculating mileages from Turkey onwards in the afternoon as the now familiar clouds had gathered and decided to go to Epidarus to see ruins and old port. 

This was a good trip – the theatre there is in perfect condition – a half circle with steps and “seat” going up at an angle of 450. Very high but from the top you could hear a penny being dropped onto a stone. (Isadora Duncan would have liked this – her democratic theatre personified).

The small tidy museum alongside the theatre contained very good statues and stonework from the “find”. We did not examine the rest of the excavations but they looked quite interesting. A false start on the wrong road delayed us getting to the Old Town of Epidarus with its attractive port.

A few colourful fishing boats completed the scene so this called for a coffee at a quayside bar. Returned to camp, via a grocer, to fill bottle with draught wine (2/6) and got ready for chicken nosh and ouzo.