Kos play

Today we set off on the fast ferry for the island of Astypalea. We were due to do this trip yesterday but the ferry was cancelled due to rough seas. We set off with high hopes.  We stopped at Nisiros to pick up passengers and then on to Kos to drop off/pick up passengers.

As we left Kos the captain said to all sit downstairs at the back as we were headed for rough water. This leg of the trip was about 2 hours. It started to get very rough and after 45 mins the captain announced we were returning to Kos. 

Mad scramble to let the hotel on Astypalea know we would  be  delayed a further day and then  to find an hotel in Kos.  Ah well safety first. We'll try again tomorrow.

So we found a cheap hotel near the port and wandered about Kos. 

The Greek physician Hippocrates of Kos (460–370 BC), to whom the Hippocratic oath is attributed.

'Walking is man's best medicine " - we tend to agree👍

The Tree of Hippocrates is the plane tree under which, according to legend, Hippocrates taught his pupils the art of medicine. The tree is looking worse for wear and tear.....there's more dead limbs and scaffold than tree  but it's still showing green spring growth after hundreds of years. 

Found the church of Aiga Pereskevi - very peaceful and beautiful frescoes and icons.

Fingers crossed we can make it to Astypalea tomorrow.