Ithaki 🇬🇷 64s 🚴‍♀️

Exploring Ithaki by E-Bike!  
After a lazy chatty morning we went into town and hired a couple of E-Bikes and Tim showed me around the north of the Island.  
One spectacular view after another on a blue sky day.  We headed up the switchbacks, past the Wedding reception venue and higher up the mountain.  The views of the ocean and over to the island Kefalonia were beautiful and enhanced by many white yachts.
The road continued up to Stavros which has a beautiful church on the mountain top.  They also had a diaorama of Ulysses castle as the ruins are in the area.
Down the other side through narrow winding roads, through little villages to Frikes where we swam in the clear waters.
Then on to Kioni, a stunning little harbour lined with cafes and shops and had a gorgeous lunch.  One of the fun things today was bumping into lots of wedding guests who had hired cars and were sightseeing all over the island.  One couple recommended a cafe in Kioni and they were spot on.  Delicious food, amazing setting and cute stray kittens after pats and tidbits.
We then retraced our route to Stavros and took the alternate high route back.  This is when my appreciation for E-Bikes grew!  High mountain road with switchbacks and incredible ocean views of islands and to the mainland,  rock terraces with olive groves.  We cycled to the highest point on the island, the lookout had views as far as we could see of blue ocean, sky and islands.
Then… the most incredible descent with goats running across the road 😂 and ocean views!
We were back to town and cycled up to Perichora where all Tim’s immediate family gathered on grandfathers property for sunset family photos.  
We had another fabulous descent down to town for drinks with the wedding guests and then dinner with Tim’s daughter and boyfriend before gelati with family.
A truly wonderful day 😊

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