A cat with no name, and two new beaches

 Friday 25th November 

So below is a photo of the kitten that’s found its way into my feeding den. It cries a lot, until it’s eaten something. It must be getting two good meals a day now,  including the wet food. It’s a bit of a scrum at feeding time even with three dishes, so getting photos is difficult. Any ideas on names, please add a comment to this blog, you can add it as anonymous. ( or Facebook)

 I had a nice chat with our UK neighbours last night and caught up with their news. One thing that came up with a WhatsApp chat with someone else, is that I feel like I have been adopted here, which I think sums things up nicely. I did try and go to  Vasileas  last night, but he was closed, so I bought a bottle of wine and watched some tv with it. I had a request from one of my friends who is now in Athens, to check out Ganema beach, as a mattress was seen floating about in the water. So after ordering a coffee and one of my favourite pies in Grans, then enjoying both, I drove there. There are a couple of beaches after Ganema I wanted to check out afterwards. There was no sign of the mattress, but there was a lot of other rubbish on the beach, it’s all gone now. There is a retaining wall at the back of the beach, there will be loads more rubbish there, that’s for another day. This is the view from one end of the beach.

The two new beaches, are near Mega Livadi, so it should be no surprise that the rocks around both will be rusty coloured, with plenty of signs of mining from years gone by. Indeed there were. There were rusting remains of rails and rolling stock, holes where miners went underground to dig the ore out and ruins of  old buildings. There were signs of quarrying too at the end of one path.

This beach was called Malliadiko beach, and it was very nice, the view above was taken  after leaving the beach and walking to the next beach. Unfortunately there was a lot of rubbish on this beach, luckily someone had left a big bag on the beach, and it all went into that. Job done. There was a huge spoil hill by the beach, all the soil and rocks taken out of the mines of course. There were the crocus in the ground and the usual plants that we see here. The holes used by the miners were there, I did not go in, one had severe warnings about the danger of going in. The second beach was much further on, with more mining relics and holes. One side of the beach had amazing rocks, like a mini Devon Doorway, but I could not get a decent photo of it annoyingly. ( I include it anyway) This beach is Kalogeros. It wasn’t so well used, which meant less rubbish. There was a sole palm tree in the behind the beach. 

Above the second beach, I heard and saw a goat in the distance, too far away for a photo. I also saw a cormorant dive into the water and I know they swim along in the water before surfacing, hopefully having caught a fish. They then dry their feathers out, standing on a rock. On the way back there were a few rocks standing upright by the side of the path, and a photo opportunity beckoned. 

I picked up my rubbish bag, when I got to the first beach and walked back to the car. I felt a bit hungry so I decided to have a crepe treat at Grans. When I got into Livadi, a lorry was drilling a hole for a new electric pole, other cars around me diverted through Livadakia, but I don’t know my way through there, so I turned off the engine and waited. I did not have to wait long. I got rid of my rubbish, there are bins near Grans and ordered my crepe which was very nice. I then drove back home and had a rest before going out for dinner with the cat sitter in Livadi. Meanwhile, here is a happy cat, enjoying the last of the autumn sun.