Saturday on Naxos began with breakfast as Clayton and Margaret came down for their last moments on the island and Suzanne and I checked in for the day before we checked the Marshes out and sent them on their way. We decided to go to the Plaka Beach and after a first beach that Suzanne marched to we decided on a second and made our way to chairs and umbrella (not a bad deal for 7 Euros) and enjoyed the scenery and the wind surfer before deciding we needed something to eat and so heading north to the crowded town and using the menu to order beer water garlic bread a lovely sandwich and a Greek salad and then the bill came.

After a rest, we decided to walk into town past the monuments and watch the sun set and as we watched the pilgrims in the background make their way to the door structure (in an exercise we believe assures that the sun will come up tomorrow and sow e are grateful to them) we watched the sun set from the comfort of a taverna with our ouzo and bread

and eventually cheese balls (though they were not round. Indeed the sun did set

and so the pilgrims completed the first part of their task as we posed to thank them and watched the continually evolving sunset and onset of darkness

and then made our way to dinner where we had bread salad and tomato balls and were given halvi as a going away treat.