Almost a Bike Ride on a Bank Holiday.

DESIMI BEACH, LESKADA.

Paul manages a run in the morning looking for a path to Nidri. The plan is to cycle there for supplies. The local vollage is shut for the Bank Holiday. Both bikes need plenty of oil, the chains are showing signs of rust. Rosie is able to ride her bike but Paul's rear wheel is seized and won't roll freely. Despite copious amounts of oil, the bike waits until it is at the bottom of the hill before completely stopping.

We decide to chain both bikes to a post and walk back to collect the van. Eventually, we attach the bikes and set off once more for Nidri.

To console ourselves, we decide to eat lunch at a harbour front tabernas. Pizza and salad washed down by a beer and an ouzo followed by a walk along the harbour. Tempers much calmer after the treat.

Unfortunately, you can't read the temperature on the bar above Rosie. It reads 26 degrees Celsius.

On the way back to the campsite, we are cut up by a Mercedes drive who stops abruptly in front. He wants us to go to his campsite. We tell him are already committed. He asks how much we pay. When he hears 18 euro, he says too much. And, he'd have given us free washing. How much of this is bluff because we're not going to his site we can't tell. It does show that the competition is cut-throat at this time of year.

We finish the evening watching the fishing boats trawling the bay.