Thursday 30th September 2010 We arrived at Agia Marina, Leros at 1pm, absolutely dead tired not having slept for about 40 hours and duly ripped off by a taxi driver who charged us 7 euros for about a 500m trip up the hill to Platanos Square. Still, it was all uphill, a wheel on Rags' suitcase has come off so he has to carry it, and we were stuffed. Platanos is a typical Greek island town, with whitewashed houses, narrow cobbled streets, mopeds zipping in and out of narrow alleyways, cars trying to squeeze down roads that look impossibly narrow, cats lurking in every street, small grocery stores, traditional cafes, and elderly men sitting in shaded cafes playing dominoes or backgammon. From here it was a hot trudge up some 30 steps to the house only
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