Typical Icarian day 1

Such an idyllic place. Routine is mainly coffee, a morning swim, lunch, siesta or reading, some sightseeing, dinner in a picturesque spot.

Coffee at Carte Postale - a cool bar

For example, Coffee at Carte Postale (left).

Then some wine tasting:Drove up into the hills behind where we are staying to Afianes winery. Personal tasting conducted by the wine-maker (a pharmacist) and his wine-maker daughter. Each village makes its own wine using techniques handed down through generations and all vary. Afianes uses a variety of  those techniques, including storage in an earthenware pot buried in the ground. The bouquet of the wine was beautiful but we didn't like the taste so much. The other 2 wines (barrel) were lovely, a white using bagara (spelling?) grapes and the red using Fokiado.

Then it was on to Agios Giorgios for a meal at Platanos Taverna, where the chef comes out, sits down with you and you work out what to order. Zuchini fritters crispy on the outside but melting inside, with tzatziki, melanzane (eggplant rolls filled with cheese), souvlaki, and melt in the mouth goat