Our last walk before it gets too hot

We went walking today, three of us, John, me and Liselotte.  It will be the last time for a few weeks that Liselotte is free to walk as she has visitors and to be fair it really is too hot in August.  As I sit and write this it is 5pm and it is 40 degrees outside without a breath of air!!   We set off early (7.30) because it was going to be a super hot day and we assembled at the carpark in Kathikas and I had plotted a walk so that we would do the Nature Trail but in the opposite direction avoiding the steep down hill part because it is very loose under foot and I know that Liselotte isn't keen on that sort of terrain.

The land is looking very parched but even in that respect the views can still be spectacular.  I had forgotten how quickly John steps it out with his, twice as long as my, stride so I had to keep reminding him that it was too hot for me to be running to keep up with him particularly as I was the one with the route in my hand!

It is interesting when you walk a familiar route in the opposite direction because it suddenly becomes an unfamiliar route and you see your surroundings differently - what we realised when we had completed our walk today is that negotiating the Nature Trail this way round is infinitely harder.  There is a much longer uphill at the end rather than a short sharp one.  However in cutting out the steep downhill we walked down a long downhill which afforded us some spectacular views of the coastline.

The walk took us past the fabulous bus which has been turned into a holiday home.  Whoever it belongs to has thought about everything, there is a wood burner, there is a shower area outside and there is the most fabulous of views.  It makes me chuckle every time I have walked by it and I think if I was a child that would be the most magical of holiday destinations.

We all thoroughly enjoyed our walk today although by the end of it I was getting very very hot and my legs were a bit like lead but we made it back to the car and then shot off down to Latchi to rescue Kenny who we had left overnight after our lovely meal in Finikas.

Over the back of us across the field there is a huge piece of land which was going to become a retirement village which was endorsed by the TV doctor Dr Hilary Jones.  It got as far as having hoardings around it and a bloody great hole dug in the middle and then nothing.  When the village was doing the cobbled roads it looked as though the rubbish and hard core was dumped in there out of the way and the other day there was this massive vehicle on caterpillar tracks which was grading the waste into sand.  They were working on it all day and the noise of the machine and the beep beep beep of the lorries reversing was getting on my nerves but it was only for one day.  Yesterday there was a lot of noise coming from there again and John said that they had obviously finished the grading and the big machine was one the move.  We watched it being loaded onto the back of a transporter lorry by remote control - can you believe that????

We had a simple supper tonight of pork chop (from Shuks) paprika wedges and salad and sat outside enjoying it.  We realised that this year unusually we have had very very few nights where the garden has been soaked with condensation.  The weather here is really changing - maybe this is a sign of global warming.