{"id":2000,"date":"2014-07-23T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2014-07-23T18:02:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T17:02:45","slug":"kos-and-the-castle-of-neratzia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2000","title":{"rendered":"Kos and the Castle of Neratzia"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, we left Kalymnos and motored right over to Kos. \u00a0You could see the island from our spot on the Town Quay and as soon as we sailed out of the harbour we saw several islands and Turkey. \u00a0There is a small barren island just a stones’ throw from Turkey and both Greece and Turkey have their large flags facing each other.<\/p>\n

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a Greek island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We wandered the streets of Kos Town less than a kilometer from Kos Marina, which we think is one of the best marinas in Greece. \u00a0Certainly it has the nicest showers, which is a very important criteria.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday morning, Kate and Mike Rider, friends from Noosa, came into Kos on a cruise ship and visited us on Mercier. \u00a0We were able to sit and chat, in a beautifully cool breeze and sip our coffees. \u00a0Mike\u00a0is always a useful font of Beneteau knowledge and we appreciate his advice.<\/p>\n

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Gaila and Kate at the\u00a0Agora, Kos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We stopped for lunch at H20 on the way to visit Hippocrates’ Plane Tree, the Agora and the Castle of Neratzia, which is full of ruins from the Knights of St John,\u00a0as well as Turks, on the foundations of an ancient city. The castle is mirrored on the Turkish Coast by the Halikarnassos\u00a0C<\/span>astle, so the Knights of St John could control the Straits between Greece and Turkey.<\/p>\n

\"Mike<\/a>
Mike and James exploring the exterior of the Keep. Looking at the Port of Mandraki<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We scrambled over and through both keeps and into tunnels, looking at antiquities, Turkish writing carved into plinths and many heralds over the tops of arches and upper walls.<\/p>\n

\"Kate<\/a>
Kate and James watching Mike disappear into a tunnel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Neratzia is the Greek word for ‘Bitter Orange” according to one website but we only saw capers and pomegranates growing and of course the beautiful views.<\/p>\n

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Pomegranates, not quite ripe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, we left Kalymnos and motored right over to Kos. \u00a0You could see the island from our spot on the Town Quay and as soon as we sailed out of the harbour we saw several islands and Turkey. \u00a0There is a small barren island just a stones’ throw from Turkey and both Greece and … Continue reading Kos and the Castle of Neratzia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,48,42,41,9,28,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2","category-antiquities","category-art-and-sculpture","category-greek-islands","category-history","category-national-parks","category-travel","category-two-degrees-of-separation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-wg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}