After another delicious breakfast we strolled down to the shop to buy water but it was closed because of a national holiday. 27 October is Oxi day in Greece. Oxi means no in Greek and it is the day the the Prime Minister of Greece said “No” to Mussolini. Fortunately cafes were open so we were able to buy water for our hike.

We started out from our hotel and took the same route as we took to go to the monastery but this time took the path to Poseidon’s Sanctuary. we tried to follow a route on AllTrails but the route seemed to have changed. The road up the mountain had been recently paved so was nice and smooth.

As we started we walked along the coast and by the time we got to Poseidon’s Sanctuary we were on the other side of the island looking down at the coast. The sites were amazing.

Poseidon’s Sanctuary was interesting but really in ruins. The building in this site started in the Late Bronze Age then Early Iron, Archaic, Classicaal, Late Classical-Early Hellenistic, Hellenistic and finally Roman. It was quite big.

The journey down the mountain seemed steeper than the journey up. And when we finally got down we had made a full circle.

We went for an early dinner. Have i said Greece has a lot of cars? Well this one was very persistent and even tried to get in my lap. After dinner we walked back to our hotel and were sound asleep by 9 pm.

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