After the yacht was secured I was given money and told to spend the rest of the day as I liked with Nikos. It was sad to think that this rich kids grow up with strange people, and I thought of Ermioni who always stayed behind. One day they would fly away and the parents would not know much about them. Sad! We walked around the village a bit, and I had an icecream, but all Nikos wanted was a dry breadroll and a juice. Strange that a child who could choose anything, decided on a dry breadroll! We evetually made our way back to the wharf where a fishing boat had just docked, and Nikos was enthralled with the excited bustle around the loading off of the fish. It was such a merry atmosphere with the fishermen shouting gaily at each other, then laughing raucously at their own jokes. We spend a happy hour watching all this, but when it was time to leave Nikos was not happy, and put up a caterwauling fit to make people think he was being thrown to the fishes! One of the fishermen walked up to us and admonished the screaming child very sternly, and Nikos had such a fright he tried to hide behind me, but then walked back meekly at my side.
Back at the Yacht Dorah told me that she and Yannis were taking a taxi to Loulida, the capital of the island for dinner, and that the Kapitanio would take Nikos and myself to a local taverna. We found a nice little taverna where we sat down at one of the tables with its red and white checked tablecloths. The two others decided on rabbit, but I just could not work up an appetite for that! Never had rabbit before. So the captain tried to explain the menu to me, of which I understood nothing until he pressed his finger on a word, and then flapped his arms and made cluck-cluck noises! I immediately knew that it was chicken and shook my head iffirmatively. Chicken indeed! My meal consisted of a mountain of boiled potatoes, and something resembling a chicken, but just a little bigger than a sparrow! I rolled my eyes at the waiter, but he gave me back stare for stare, and I kind of realised that it would have to do! At least the potatoes were enough to fill up three people! The picture shows the captain going for a stroll.