Knee-Deep

Yesterday on our way north out of Athens we passed through a lot of farmland where cotton is grown. The roadsides were knee-deep in cotton boles spilled out of the trucks that transport them to be processed; white fluffy bobbles bounded and rolled along the roads. 

F got some for me to inspect.

Today we travelled around Pelion. The mountains are covered in lush forest with loads of sweet chestnut trees. It's chestnut season (kastana) and the roadsides there are knee-deep in furry looking chestnut husks.

The slopes are super steep and the views are spectacular. AND there are sqillions of beehives (years ago we were beekeepers and we still can't not notice beehives)

You'll forgive us for not taking a close-up

The villages on Pelion are very pretty and there are ski centres at the top.  F wants to come back here and do a walking holiday. I don't suppose i will be invited on that one.

Further north miles and miles of beachside campsites were all closed down.  They've had an awful summer of course and place after place that we went through was like the Marie Celeste.

Tonight we are in a hotel in a big seaside town with loads of holiday apartments, and down below the street looks like a scene out of an old Western movie - deserted. The wind is whistling and raising dust and they just need tumbleweeds and some matchstick chewin' lone cowboy to  complete the picture.

 

Gabions - we saw workmen filling some of these on a road repair. The mountains are so steep the roads needed lots of repair - even the new ones. This one looks like a stadium.

Not ready to depart 

View from our camp place

My seat. I don't know where F is going to sit.