Although we were planning to leave Zakynthos on the Tuesday, we ended up staying until Friday the 21st Oct due to a series of Greek strikes. It seems the Greeks like working almost as little as us.
Most of the week was spent going to the port and asking when the strike would be over, but we did do a few interesting things.
This is Tsilivi taken from the Balcony Hotel.
After much searching Andre (Yasmin's dad) finally found the Jewish cemetery of Zakynthos.
Story from wikipedia
The 275 Jews of the island of Zakynthos survived the Holocaust. When the island's mayor, Carrer, was presented with the German order to hand over a list of Jews, Bishop Chrysostomos returned to the Germans with a list of two names; his and the mayor's. The island's population hid every member of the Jewish community. When the island was almost levelled by the great earthquake of 1953, the first relief came from the state of Israel, with a message that read "The Jews of Zakynthos have never forgotten their Mayor or their beloved Bishop and what they did for us."
The main town on Zakynthos called Zakynthos Town
This is Marathonisi, the turtle island in Laganas Bay. It both looks like a turtle and is where the caretta caretta turtles lay their eggs each year. Yaz saw a dead one but has no photographic evidence.
Once we realised we were stuck we made the most of it. We hired a buggy and quad bike with Annouska and Jake (Josh's cousin) to tour the island.
Zakynthos has over two million olive trees, how many can you spot in this picture?
We went to Alikanas, Xigia beach, Keri and the Shipwreck lookout...
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