Headed up into the middle of the island today, looking (ostensibly) for both a mountaintop church and an abandoned radar station — not necessarily to spend a bunch of time at them, particularly because it was super windy, but just to get a feel for the area since we had been sticking mostly to the coasts. Didn’t put eyes on the specific locations, but did drive through a couple cool villages up in the mountains that we’ll likely come back around to.
We started out around Agios Nikitas, on the ocean side of the island. Apple Maps has a deep love for putting me on single-track roads on this island, and the path up the mountain was no different. The first village, Karya, was pretty closed up, except for one taverna in the middle of the village, where four old guys were chatting around one table, and four old cats were sitting in the same pattern under the table next to them. Eglouvi was higher up, and had some pretty narrow streets both going in and coming out (and some directional signage that felt a little like a Wile E Coyote trap).
We went out the back of Eglouvi and down the inland side of the island, hitting a few overlooks of Nydri and the mainland.
Reminded us we need to go back to that slope as well, as Nydri has some waterfalls that are supposed to be quite picturesque.