Tuesday, July 30, 2013

real rest day

Today we went to get some more supplies, swim and eat at Linaria, and just generally be lazy.  A HUGE megayacht motored into the tiny Emborios harbor today.  Just to gig eyou an idea of the scale, Emborios is a very small and quiet harbor town:

And this yacht was huge (it's not in this photo).  I googled it and discovered that  it is called the Jaguar, is 56 meters long, 10.4 meter beam, 3650 horsepower, with a crew of 14 and room for 14 guests and is available for charter for the small sum of 240,000 dollars.  That's for the week.  Details here.  It's also available for purchase for 34 million dollars.  I found it a strange choice for harbor, but refreshing in a way, because my assumption would be that a big motivation for chartering a yacht like that would be for rich people to be able to show off to other rich people.  However, there are probably much fewer rich people to impress in Emborios than Portofino.

The locals at least were not impressed at all, barely looking up from their newspapers.   I wanted to get some harbor footage, so started flying the drone off the dock, and people actually got up from their chairs in the middle of their meals to come see the spectacle!  So, <1000 0.="" 34="" dollar="" euro="" million="" p="" quadcopter:1="" super="" yacht:="">

Dinner was wonderful as usual.  The highlight though was our favorite dessert on the island, and one that we look forward to on every kaly trip: Loukoumades!  

These are small doughnut hole like desserts, drizzled in the unequalled Kalymnian thyme honey (Kalymnos is actually known for it's honey).  Harry's are something special though. I'm sure there is a secret recipe involved.  It was our last night at Harry's, which was a little sad.  We did not know what to expect staying in Emporios, but I am sure we will be back.

We also picked up some bolts and hangars from Aris to hopefully replace #4 on por una sociedad… since one of the hangars has rotated off, and is a bit dangerous now.

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