We thought we had chosen a good day to take the trip over to Kos island. We duly caught the ferry and had a calm crossing but on our arrival we hit torrential rain. It was so heavy that we managed to miss the turning for Kos town and instead ended up taking the complete opposite direction and ended up on the South West tip of the island. We had to drive through flooded roads up and down hills twice as we had to retrace our steps completely. Eventually the rain let up and after an uncomfortable drive we started our shopping list for the day. Our first stop was the stainless steel shop. A real Ali Baba cavern where Svein went to town and bought the new elements for the davits as well as the ancillary stuff needed to weld. He made arrangements for the new elements to be delivered to the ferry the next day so that he could collect them on their arrival in Nisyros. We then drove down to the marina to see if we could find some replacement oars. The first shop was shut but we then went to Pavlos and found everything we needed including a few extras (as usual). We now have “wings” for the outboard, a shackle for the anchor and anchor chain markers.
Finally we were able to concentrate on the food shopping so visited Carrefour and Lidl and the Chinese shop between them where Svein found a very nice Canadian shirt that he is forbidden to wear when working on the boat!!!!!!!
We duly returned to Kardamena with the boot filled and the pockets with big holes and had a delightful lunch before taking the ferry back to Nisyros.
All in all a very nice day (apart from the rain) where we had managed to find everything we needed plus a few extras.