HIKING FROM LEFKES TO PRODROMOS
Wednesday was another sunny day so we took advantage of it to hike down from Lefkes to the coast at Prodromos. The road was rocky and slippery and narrow, paved with multicolored rocks that looked as if they were part of the original 1000 year old Byzantine Road from the coast up to Lefkes. We had the feeling of going back in time, joining people who were going to and from Lefkes, probably taking goods on muleback, long before the motor road that paralleled the Byzantine Road in the same long valley down to the sea. The landscape on both sides of the path was lovely shades of green and gray and yellow pastel shrubs and grey green olive groves.
Unfortunately for my 86 year old legs, the trail was not all downhill, there was a long rise in the road over a shoulder of a hill that was uphill. But it didn‘t make too much difference. Going down hill over the smooth but uneven rocks my knees hurt more and more as I wobbled along, very gingerly, trying to avoid twisting an ankle and needing to be carried out. All the way I thought of my friend Sheldon Neuringer who will no longer travel because his knees are giving out. He would not have enjoyed the walk.
And in the long uphill portion my knees were fine but my calves burned and I was out of breath. It was only a 2 1/2 mile walk but it took us a very long time to make it down to the beautiful white town of Prodromos where we had a good meal and waited for the local bus to take us back up to Lefkes to get back to our car. I asked for pigeon in red sauce, which was on the menu, but they were out of pigeons, so I settled for rabbit in red sauce instead. (Later in the evening I felt queasy, either from over exertion or the rabbit, but am fine the next day).
We drove back to Naousa. Susie kept on exploring by car but I took a two hour nap.
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 