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This morning after breakfast we took the bus from Lygia in to Lefkada\/\u039b\u03b5\u03c5\u03ba\u03ac\u03b4\u03b1, the main town on the island near the bridge which connects the island to the mainland.<\/strong><\/p>\n The bus was packed (standing room only) so we’ve decided a taxi would be better next time!<\/p>\n On arrival in Lefkada, we walked along the water front up towards the Archaeological Museum. Once we turned the corner to face the other coast it was noticably windier – the West of the island is more exposed than the East which faces the mainland.<\/p>\n We continued walking on the road heading out of Lefkada to Ag. Ioannis\/\u0391\u03b3. \u0399\u03c9\u03ac\u03bd\u03bd\u03b7\u03c2 beach. It was almost like an English beach with wind and large waves. Not a beach for swimming as we could sort of see rocks where the waves were breaking.<\/p>\n We had lunch in a taverna next to the beach and then sunbathed for a couple of hours. It was nice to hear the waves. You know you’re at the beach when you can hear the waves breaking!<\/p>\n Later, we returned to Lefkada itself and to reward ourselves after the long walk we had ice creams and then walked through the pedestrianised shopping district towards the taxi rank.<\/p>\n We returned to Lygia by taxi – only \u20ac0.40 more expensive than the bus and much more comfortable!<\/p>\n We headed straight for the swimming pool to cool off. In the evening we decided to eat at the apartment – the daily special at the bar was pasta bake (not very Greek I must admit, probably the Australian influence) which was tasty – Dad had fresh fish.<\/p>\n Tomorrow after breakfast Corrie and I are leaving Mum and Dad behind on the island in Lygia, while we head off to Athens for the weekend.<\/p>\n Off to bed now… \u039a\u03b1\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03cd\u03c7\u03c4\u03b1.<\/p>\n FH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning after breakfast we took the bus from Lygia in to Lefkada\/\u039b\u03b5\u03c5\u03ba\u03ac\u03b4\u03b1, the main town on the island near the bridge which connects the island to the mainland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[32,42,44,3,93,98],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lefkada","tag-ag-ioannis","tag-beach","tag-bus","tag-lefkada","tag-taxi","tag-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.gr\/greece2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.gr\/greece2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.gr\/greece2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.gr\/greece2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.gr\/greece2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.gr\/greece2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.gr\/greece2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.gr\/greece2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.gr\/greece2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.gr\/greece2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}