Nydri - Lefkadas

We left Preveza at 9amish and really unusual for the mornings in the Ionian we caught a good twelve knot wind and broad reach to the entrance of the Lefkas canal for the 11am opening ( only opens on the hour). The dredgers are busy just outside the reaches of the entrance with the winter silts. Only three of us going south, an Aussie catamaran, a small motor boat and us. Popping out the south end of the canal we headed south west to Nidri and moored stern to the quay. Not many berths here but we squeezed in between a Dutch and French boat.  This is the approach to Nidri ...

The omnipresent mountains thrill me so much more than the towns.

 

Nidri has surrendered itself to tourism...

Yet the fishermen still hold sway on the inner quay...

And street philosophy exists...

...Men have to construct their own destiny! As does Nidri.

 

We walked away from town and found a Bronze Age Tumuli (Tombs) site where 4,000 years ago the people buried their dead under burial mounds. These are currently being excavated...

 

Rather than return to the ear splitting quay front we wandered inland past gardens packed with courgettes, tomatoes, vines, olive and fig trees about a kilometre to the village of Radi where we found restaurant Katorahoula. Run by a charming family and the food is really really good.

Later that evening we walked down the bay where Neilson Sailing Holidays and Sailing Holidays ( CORFU) vie for pontoon space. We found four of our young friends from Corfu busy keeping their punters happy on the last night of their sailing holiday!