A week in Amaliada

After 2 days of awful biking experience I was luckly invited to live and work on a farm in Amaliada.
Welcome!

I received the invitation from the workaway site, where people search for workers and volunteers who agree to work for accomodation, food and cultural exchange. My hosts have good feedback and I decided to go there.
They have had a lot of workawayers and have built straw cottages for them. Here is the cottage built of staw inside and plastered by clay outside.

This id Jennifer with a goat named Mary.

 So, the farm is small and there are not many people there. Jen and George have nice 2 children and they are very hospitable. Also there are several animals: the big pergnant dog with a very complicated name which I forgot, puppy Ticka (cause he has ticks=), goat Mary, three wild cats, chicken family and few very social turkeys. One turkey had 2 smal babies right in the time when I was there.
My job was watering this tomato field.

I watered tomatoes every morning and cleaned ditches with a digger. Then it was breakfast time, we had plently of goat milk and figues.

Then we usually went to Kouruta beach to use free wi-fi and these nice seats

These are characters of national Greek theatre

Dinner after another watering

There were a lot of animals and insects on tthe farm

cicadas sre everywhere

Grasshoppers were of  a teaspoon size

We found this turtle in a field, fed it and brought back.


And the neighbors have an ostrich ...

... and huge cactuses

Then The Family has gone for several days and the farm was on Dana and me. We went hitch-hiking to the beach with the farmers in these great cars.

And this is Dana from New Zealand

Everybody play this game, a kind of badminton, on the beach. I'm working, the laptop is also here.

Amaliada is a small town, but there is something to see. For example, the cars.

...some more

Fish!

Awful drink called 'coffee frappe' made of nescafe with conserved milk and ice mixed in blender. If you want normal coffe, ask for 'greek coffee', 'ellinikos' or 'filter coffee'

The great Saturday market

Cheap fruits, melons for 50 cents each

Oregano and mountain tea

Local people

and some more from the market...

In a word, Amaliada is a very nice town with relaxed atmosphere, good for laid-back living. I spent there a week, then started missing the road and the motion and we left to Sparta.
To be continued!