Day 73-Kardamyli

Day 73. Thursday October 14th. Kardamyli. Kristos’ Dive Center.
We arrive in Kardamili (sometimes Kardamyli) and find it to be a small unspoilt seaside town. We check out the newer and fashionable/chic places along the front (about 70 euros this time of year and we are told about 150 euros/night in season) but leave them and go up into the hills inland about 5 minutes and find this dive center (“rooms to rent”). 40 euros a night and we have a super room with a kitchen and balcony and views across the town below and sunset over the Ionian bay. I have a head cold and anyway this place if terrific so we will stay two nights. Christos offers a third night free if we want it since I have helped him with his web advertising for his new dive center business.
Christos’ girlfriend just brought us some sort of sweet cheese with jam on a pastry base. Fresh coffee and the rain of the past two days has cleared and so we have bright blue skies and the Ionian sea to look at. Off into the hills to explore now for a few hours. We visited Exochori and Kastania, it’s good unspoilt hiking country up here, and then ended up in Stoupa on the coast and we swam off the sandy beach there.