As soon as the worst of the morning's rain was over I took myself down to the zoo for a spot of weeding. As I expected there were weeds everywhere. It took me four hours to to weed the gravel garden where the thrift is doing exceptionally well, pink and white flowers on all the plants I grew from seed. Some things like the lavender and santolina either didn't survive the attack of the goats or don't like the conditions while the stachys is holding on and last year's planting of ground cover sedum is filling out nicely. I also went over the paths in the grass maze.
It's raining again and my legs are beginning to feel the effects of last night's kettlebells so I may not go to choir tonight.
Going to Crete in May meant that the hot weather was only just beginning with plenty of spring flowers which was better for us though not every day was a good day for spending the whole day on the beach. The water hadn't warmed up though for us Brits and Northern Europeans it was fine for swimming. I found I would start to get cold after half an hour of snorkelling but I still saw plenty of interesting fish.
Instead we did a lot more walking. This year Peter's knees and ankles were in a better state and he was able to do more walking with me.
The first longer walk we did was along the the headland which can just be seen as a pale line in the above photo. We walked outwards for an hour and a half which didn't quite get us around the headland but took us right out of sight of the village.
The track itself is not terribly exciting but gave us great views of Spinalonga (centre of the photo below) and Kolokytha (the island by Elounda) to the left and of course the mountains in the distance.
Another walk we did together was up behind the village heading inland.
Although there were a number of new developments creeping up the hillside the olive groves still gave a sense of rural life.
It's not a very long walk but great for just stretching your legs after lazing about on the beach.
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