Images: View from my Mountain Hike; Fish Taverna in Heronissos; SL at Lunch; Taverna in Vathi; Vathi BeachOf all the Greek islands we visited last year, Sifnos is the only one we chose to return to, and that speaks volumes about the experience we had. We are here for 15 days this time, but Sifnos will always now be remembered as where we were when Cadence was born.
A cadence in football is what the quarterback yells out before the play begins: “Blue 52, Blue 52, Ready, Down, Set, Hut, Hut!”, and you all know what a musical cadence is.
Cadence will be the first female Canadian professional football player to sing the national anthem before she plays in the game – and she WON'T be playing for the Montreal Allouettes.
The port town of Kamares, where we stay in Sifnos, is in a small bay cut in to the mountains. From our hotel balconies, (yes, we have two!), we can see the water on one side, and the mountains everywhere else we look. Where Folegandros was rugged and you were always perched on top of a jagged cliff looking down to the sea, on Sifnos you always seem to be in a valley looking up, or on a mountain looking down to the valleys.
The mountains in Sifnos are older, gentler, more rounded. Yes, yes, yes, it DOES sound like the direction my body is taking....
Old, round body notwithstanding, (and sometimes not even standing) I hiked up a mountain yesterday, at least as far as my good sense would allow, as it got very slippery with loose rock on a steep path on the edge of a precipice. Still and all, it was a good hour of climbing, and more than justified another Greek lunch!
We had that lunch after a bike ride to Heronissos, a tiny fishing village about 10 km away. All the fish served at the one taverna there are caught every day on the family boat. It was idyllic and seemed to underscore the theme of the whole trip.
Today we drove the bike to Vathi, about 15 km away. Vathi allows no cars and is simply a series of tavernas and pensions on a beach. We walked the beach back and forth, walked in the sea, and had a lunch of salad and kalamares (squid).
Our biggest decision right now is whether or not to take a nap before walking into town for the sunset, homemade Greek wine (delicious!) and a spaghetti dinner. I am so stressed out by the pressure of this, that I simply must have a cold Mythos (Greek beer) before putting my mind to it.
A cadence in football is what the quarterback yells out before the play begins: “Blue 52, Blue 52, Ready, Down, Set, Hut, Hut!”, and you all know what a musical cadence is.
Cadence will be the first female Canadian professional football player to sing the national anthem before she plays in the game – and she WON'T be playing for the Montreal Allouettes.
The port town of Kamares, where we stay in Sifnos, is in a small bay cut in to the mountains. From our hotel balconies, (yes, we have two!), we can see the water on one side, and the mountains everywhere else we look. Where Folegandros was rugged and you were always perched on top of a jagged cliff looking down to the sea, on Sifnos you always seem to be in a valley looking up, or on a mountain looking down to the valleys.
The mountains in Sifnos are older, gentler, more rounded. Yes, yes, yes, it DOES sound like the direction my body is taking....
Old, round body notwithstanding, (and sometimes not even standing) I hiked up a mountain yesterday, at least as far as my good sense would allow, as it got very slippery with loose rock on a steep path on the edge of a precipice. Still and all, it was a good hour of climbing, and more than justified another Greek lunch!
We had that lunch after a bike ride to Heronissos, a tiny fishing village about 10 km away. All the fish served at the one taverna there are caught every day on the family boat. It was idyllic and seemed to underscore the theme of the whole trip.
Today we drove the bike to Vathi, about 15 km away. Vathi allows no cars and is simply a series of tavernas and pensions on a beach. We walked the beach back and forth, walked in the sea, and had a lunch of salad and kalamares (squid).
Our biggest decision right now is whether or not to take a nap before walking into town for the sunset, homemade Greek wine (delicious!) and a spaghetti dinner. I am so stressed out by the pressure of this, that I simply must have a cold Mythos (Greek beer) before putting my mind to it.
As I finish writing this, I turn around and SL is fast asleep. I go out to one of our balconies, Travelcaster guitar in hand......
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