Kiparissi-Monemvasia

Chris and I visited Monemvasia back in the early 90s and we had always wanted to return to one day. After a quick morning swim at Kiparissi, we set off along the coast. We did try to stop for lunch but swarms of jellyfish, poor holding for the anchor (surprise) and some reasonably brisk winds made us abort and head for Monemvasia early. It’s often quite difficult to know whether you’ll get moored, want to get moored or prefer to anchor so it’s worth getting to a new location earlier rather than later and in the dark.

We anchored just south of the causeway linking the mainland to the huge rock on which Monemvasia perches – quite a backdrop. The kids swam, jumped and dived – in fact David began to teach Alex to dive here.

We ate in Monemvasia mainland that evening the highlight of which was some extremely unusual local wine!!

Pictures: Top is Alex with the edge of Monemvasia Old Town behind him. Bottom is the Old Town and in the centre are the narrow steps that zigzag up to the Upper Town which we climbed the next day.