Day 8 - A yachting paradise and a couple of cemeteries.

As this was our last full day we decided to visit the must see village on the island which is called Fiskardo.  It is very picturesque and the sailing flotilla boats all jostle for moorings on the quayside as late comers (probably any after lunchtime) will have to moor off shore and use a dinghy to get into port for their dinner. 

Unfortunately the ambience was rather spoilt by four coachloads of teenagers (200 children) from the main town in Kefalonia on a day trip.  They do not seem to have been given any projects or work to do, the teachers had set up camp in one of the tavernas and the children walked round the town in gangs causing trouble.  At one stage quite a fight broke out between 15/16 year old boys.  Not a great day for the local businesses trying to cater for well heeled yachties and up market tourists like ourselves.

A  interesting diversion which none of the children visited was a Roman cemetery just outside the town, the sarcophagus were still in situ although the contents has long since gone, something which in the UK would be carefully conserved but in Greece, as such things are so plentiful, it is just left to the elements between a couple of houses. 
The other cemetery we visited is a little older - 1300BC to be precise.  There are a couple of Mycenaean cemeteries on the island, the biggest is closed at the moment and another, not far from where we are staying, is hidden!  It has lots of nice official signposts leading to it but when we have used Google maps to find it we have been directed to a field with nasty fences all round.  Being determined explorers (especially when I found out the site had free entry) we eventually found it, slap bang on the main road about 1km away from where Google maps showed its location.   
It was fun crawling into the man made caves and trying out the coffins for size.  There are all sorts of other man made pits around the site which, when excavated, did not have bodies but as the Mycenaeans did not write anything down little is understood about these sites which somehow make them all the more interesting.
 A good fun end to the holiday, regrettably we catch a flight home tomorrow lunchtime and leave this lovely sunshine behind.

A bit too small for me and not comfortable.  Some of the chambers were quite large as you can see in the picture of Gill climbing out.

This very posh boat stopped outside the harbour and the 8 passengers were brought ashore in a tender for lunch to witness the out of control teenagers  

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