We arrived at Patmos after a short sail across from Lipso and decided to anchor around the corner from Skala – the main harbour town – in a nice bay called Ormos Meloyi. It was a short walk into Skala over a hill – perfect.
Patmos is the most northerly of the Dodecanese and has numerous nice bays to anchor in. We were only there for a couple of days so we only got to try out one.
Patmos is famous for the monastery of St John the Divine. You can pay your entrance fee and wander around the monastery and its museum, before checking out the picturesque chora that surrounds the monastery, which is also quite impressive.
To get there, it’s a long walk up a big hill and after exhausting ourselves walking up forever, I can see why John may have been in the right mood to dream up the apocalypse and the Book of Revelations.
After checking out the monastery, we dashed down to the sacred cave where John put pen to paper and wrote out the whole Revelations thing. They say the whole place is like the Jerusalem of the Greek Orthodox Church.
History lesson over, we spent a few pleasant hours wandering the tourist streets of Skala. But the weather was looking ideal for a crossing to Myconos so we pulled up anchor and pointed West.
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