Another beautiful day on Sifnos.
We looked into hiring a car or motorbikes for the day as the island is quite hilly, however we're doing our bit for the environment and decided on using the little local bus system. Check out the € petrol/diesel price on the island.
Yesterday we took the bus from Kamares Port where we are staying to a little village town called Apollonia - the civic center of the island. A small village with white washed buildings, lots of little lanes and alleys to get lost in and apparently at night it is the center of nightlife on the island with bars and fine dining. We certainly saw a whole bunch of people in Kamares Port all glammed up waiting for the 7.40pm night bus, it must go off ;)
We changed buses at Apollonia to go to a remote beach called Vathi beach. Our bus was an ancient bus which only just made it up some of the steep hills and going downhill in the very steep parts I was hoping they had jolly good brakes. The bus was full with a mix of tourists and locals kids and we actually stood on the second leg of our journey. It was hot and great stability training as you hung on around the bends! When we got off the bus we walked down a little dusty lane and into the most perfect little horse shoe bay with the crystal clear waters and it was absolutely beautiful.
Only two restaurants / taverna right on the waters edge with the waves nibbling at your feet. Right on the water was the Church of Taxiarches and of Evangelistria (17th century).
Lots of yachts pull in, drop anchor and row ashore and have lunch and then off they go on their way again. Lovely, lovely day - beautiful swimming.
The bus back was an upgrade to business class! It was a much more modern bus with air conditioning!
Later we wandered down to the port and it was all go with a lovely sunset going down and cargo ferries bringing in lorry loads of cement, building supplies and all the supplies for the island.
Lovely day.
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