Dragon Cave, Kastoria

First stop today was Kastoria. If you have never been to Kastoria, imagine a Greek Annecy, or a Greek Como, or a Greek Lake Hayes (with a town) - and an enormous fur coat industry. Did you know Greece has a fur coat industry town - in one of the most scenic inhabited places on the planet?  No? We didn't either.  We went there to look at a cave.

F has occasionally, when I have been particularly destructive of small plants, threatened to turn me ino a fur hat (Davy Crocket hat).  She says she now knows where to send me.

Not impressed. (Although I suspect if anyone wearing a fur coat came anywhere near me I'd proabably give them a good kneading and purr loudly.   What??  I like fur OK?)

Approaching the town from our direction you are confronted by a huge sign that says 

I ❤ Kastoria 

in large stainless steel letters. The site  concierge appeared to be a refugee from the fur industry and her family

Mum, 2 black daughters, and a Tiggerish lad who gets his sisters fo clean his ears

Good views from there however...

The Dragon Cave is out on the point of that last scenic pic. It's a one way drive round the peninsular, through autumnal trees, with views of water and wildlife.

In Kastori, I got left in the van to keep an eye on some big white birds while Mr B and F said they were going in search of pies. They came back with apples and nuts - lousy substitute for pies.  Greece runs on pites - how could they not find pies?

Kastori's Dragon Cave is a recent find in the scheme of caves known to humans, and has only been open to the public since 2009.

I guarded the van again while they inspected it, but I got to see and help edit the photos this time. These weird things are good for imagination.

Human body parts.

And there was the scorpion thing F found in the handbasin when she took the  comfort stop at the end.

More wildlife.... pelican

From Kastoria we went in search of Portitsa  Gorge.  We have been riding around in an escapade, a Peugot Partner Escapade, but found ourselves on an escapade..... stay tuned.