Exploring the Kastro and having fun on the beach, welcome to Day 5!
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In the morning we visited the last site we had planned to visit, the Kastro. It's a fairly large area consisting of narrow roads which surround the castle itself. The castle isn't very big and exciting (there's actually just a museum inside now), but the surrounding grounds offer some lovely views in all directions, and the winding paths are so beautiful.
This is the Roman Catholic Cathedral which is tucked away inside the Kastro. It's a tiny building, but pretty nonetheless.
We decided to take it easy on our last full day in Greece, so we took the bus to a beach 20 minutes away from Naxos Town, Agia Anna beach. Compared to Agios Georgios, it's definitely busier as it is more popular, however, the water is deeper so there's more room for swimming (which is basically impossible to do at Agios Georgios), and the waves are slightly larger. Georgios is a nice quiet beach that is most suitable for families with small children, but we wanted something a bit more exciting, so to speak.
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For the entire three days that we had stayed in Naxos, we didn't actually go to the main town square until the night before the day we left. We had made friends with a jewellery-shop owner in Old Town, and she recommended to us a restaurant that her brothers own.
And that reminds me - everyone in Greece is so gosh darn nice! The people are so unbelievably helpful and jolly, and there's always something 'on the house'. It was quite a change from English stiffness...
Anyway, I diverge. The restaurant is called Scirocco and is similar to the restaurant from the day before, Oasis, in that they're both very cosy, yet busy. We had to wait a bit for a table to become free, but it was worth it. The seafood pasta I had was perfect, not lacking in both quantity or quality of the 'seafood' aspect. It's definitely a place I can recommend to anyone!
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