Let's go somewhere without a plan..

On Friday 4th it was again a free day but this time because of the elections taking place on Sunday the 6th. Here you have to go to your hometown or city to vote so people have to travel. It was also a day that me and my friends (Shiesma and Elise from Holland and Marie from France) from greek lessons had decided to go somewhere basically without a plan or booking anything.. We met at Pireus metro station at 9.30 am and went to buy the tickets to the ferry at 10.15 am to Ydra. Well, the journey almost ended before it even got started since the boat was full and the next would leave at 1 or 2. We decided to walk to the port and just stand in front of the boat if there happened to be that someone wouldn't come or something.. The engines of the boat were already on when finally they told us to run to buy the tickets. We ran back (it took like 3 minutes) and they told that it is full. But there was a rather young captain of the boat so he let us in even though we didn't have seats.. Lucky us! We stand the around 2 hours trip. 

When we arrived to Ydra we went to eat at the port and noticed that there are no cars or motorbikes on the island.. So much for renting a car and sleeping in it.. :D After having eaten we took a watertaxi to Vlichos beach were we spent couple of hours. Then we walked back to the "city" and it was nice sightseeing on the way. But to tell the truth I was a bit disappointed to the island. There really wasn't that much to see or do. Yes, it was beautiful and all but I wouldn't spent there more than a day. 

Ydra

Vlichos beach

Back at the port we found this amazing place with clear water so me and Marie wanted to take another swim there and jump to the water from the rocks! Then we walked around again and went to by couple of beers, took a donkey rides after negotiating the price to half from which it started and then went to sit to this bench and drink the beers and enjoy ourselves! 

When it got closer to the sunset we walked to the other side of the port to this sunset restaurant which was voted by abcnews to world's second best sunset restaurant! We admired the sunset, spotted dolphins and ate little within the student budget (eggplant salad and bread..) .. :P

Dolphins!

Dolphin

After the sunset we went back to the port and started walking towards the beach Madraki 'cause we had found out that it's a sand beach so it would be our hotel for the night.. It took us around 30 minutes to walk there and at some points of the road there weren't any lights so it was dark.. Just before the beach we found some smaller rocky beach with sunbeds unlocked.. We decided to stay there and make ourselves as comfortable as we could.. :D We didn't have any pillows or blankets, we just had our towels and I was the only one with an actual jacket. And it was a freezing night! We slept maybe 10-15 minutes at the time. We hadn't thought that it would be that cold.. And around three o'clock at night, while we were in the middle of nowhere, there came three guys out of nowhere and we were really afraid that they would see us or something. We think they did see us eventually but nothing happened and they left soon. It was scary since our imaginations were going really really fast..! At some point we heard noises on the beach and turned to look and found that a cat was walking on the rocks! 

The place were the guys appeared

Our beds

Morning at 6 am, freezing!

At the port of Ydra we went to one coffee place which at open around 7 am and we stayed there almost couple of hours. One at the time we walked to the toilet with our toothbrushes with us.. We felt homeless and we must have looked really funny! :D 

At the coffee place taking a little nap

We didn't really do anything but sit and wonder about the life at the port. Our boat to Spetses left at 9.20 or something. :) We slept the way to Spetses for maybe 30 minutes and then started to walk around! We found this tourist information place right at the harbour and there was this nice guy who told us what we should do! Well, he told us to see some museums but we preferred the beach.. :P We walked around and finally found this amazing beach were we stayed for many hours!

When we got enough of being on the beach we started walking towards the port and "sightseeing" on the way. There wasn't much to see and the island seemed really dead. We went to look for a restaurant with tsatziki and it turned out to be a challange! :DD We went to at least 4 different restaurants but finally we found a place where we could eat what we wanted. Then we just played cards and waited for our boat to leave back to Pireus around 7-8 pm.

Spetses port

We slept on the boat and I was dead tired when I finally came home but I still agreed on seeing my finnish friend (she dates with a greek guy) in Kerameikos at 11.30 pm.. I went to bed around 2 am and slept really well! :D Our trip was so nice and we enjoyed it a lot! We laughed so much during the two days!! :D Two more islands checked!