From Dublin to Masouri

After a week at home we are settling into our next adventure.  The island of Kalymnos for the next month.

The view from our balcony - no complaints here

It was great to catch up with everyone, both family and friends, while we were at home in Carlow and in Dublin.   It even made us (well maybe just me, I don't know) a little sad to be home.  In some respect, I feel we are missing out on what everyone is doing and what we would be doing if we were still living at home and I certainly miss people alot.  However, this is something we both want to do, and once we stepped on the plane to Greece we knew this is where we wanted to be (at least for now).  Who knows what next month will hold.

After a rather horrendous flight to Greece, horrendous, only due to the fact that we had a eight hour lay over in Gatwick airport, through the night.  Really not the place I wanted to be, however, it did allow me get a good chunk of my book read (girls, the series is great - thoroughly enjoying it so far - twilight saga for those that are interested).   We arrived in Kos and spotted another Kalymnos bound climber and asked if he wanted to join us in our taxi to the ferry.  The taxi man had obviously over heard the conversation with us and dropped us at the ferry then expressed his very displeased opinion that we were sharing taxis....and ended saying next time let me do my job (basically if he could he wanted us all in single taxi's spending as much money as possible ... oh well).

Absolutely exhausted we spent the next day wandering around the little town of Masouri familiarizing ourselves with the crag and where the hundreds of little paths go and to which area.  We were just too tired to climb.   Ready and rearing to go the next day we headed up to an area called "Poets", with some lovely 25+ metre routes.  We both ticked 6a, 6a+, 6a+ and a 6a+, a nice little introduction to Kalymnos, our only complaint was from our finger tips.  The rock in this sector was so sharp, not a polish hold in sight... but not a bad complaint.  The following day we met up with Barry, Juan and Eoin and headed up to "Afternoon Crag" and "Sparatacus" where we got on some more 5s and 6s.  We were happy with our first two days.  Nothing hard - but both feeling comfortable on everything...