Climb Every Mountain

Yesterday was a bright, clear day, if a little cool out of the sun. So we took the car out to park up and do a walk that we've wanted to do for a while now.

If you know the area around Lardos-Pilona, here on Rhodes, then you'll know where I'm talking about when I mention the 'windy-windie' bends on the road between Lardos and Pilona. That's 'windy-windie' as in 'windy', pronounced as you'd expect, and 'windie', pronounced as if you were trying to irritate someone, ie. 'wind' them up. Try explaining such different pronunciations of words spelt almost the same to a Greek. Report back to me.

Anyway, there's this hill you see to your left after you've left Lardos and headed uphill toward the first of the windy-windie bends, after which there's a hundred or so metres of straight road before the next, really windy-windie corners, on your way to Pilona. About a third of the way up the straight bit, there's a lay-by on the left, just metres past a dirt track that leads up into the hills. We parked up there and took that dirt track...

Here is the result...

Poppies (not generally the kind you get in the UK) begin to replace the anemonies about now, plus Asphodel is coming into its own too.

"The hills are alive..."

That's Lardos behind me.

Without 3D it's difficult to grasp the location here, but we're atop a high ridge, and the hillside behind my beloved's head is half a mile away, with a deep ravine between that hillside and her. Pilona's behind that higher hill beyond.

Lardos again, with the Lardos Beach area in the distance.

Although it was warm enough out of the wind, up there, with a full 360, it was pretty cool!

On our way back down. Hopefully this give a sort of idea of how steep the sides of the hill are. Lardos Beach again in the distance.

That's the hill/ridge that we'd climbed in the background, top-right. On the left? Good job this isn't Ireland, or I'd be making all kinds of female leprechaun jokes.