Ok back on dry solid round

Ok other than long delays and canceled ferries I am back in Athens and God was gracious and room was found for me in the only inn on Patmos that was open (sort of). So I went from having four days on the Island of John the Divine (as he is referred to on Patmos) to possibly not having any to having two whole days. What can I say travel in the off season is . . . well interesting. I arrived on Patmos at 1 am on Saturday with the plan of being back on a ferry at 3 and having to find somewhere relatively warm to spend until the sun came up around 6:30. Well, as I thought I had checked every possible hotel and room for rent on the Island of Patmos with the constant answer of closed before I left, I went into the only thing on the port with lights on at 1:30 am. Low and behold the man behind the bar tells me that there is a hotel up the hill a ways that is always open (funny they aren't listed on any brochure, website, or travel agency site anywhere) but after roaming for about 30 minutes in a town the size of a large thumb (ok a little exageration) I found the place and they had plenty of rooms, but only two that had heat working in them, I will take one with heat please, not that it is really all that cold here compared to back home but 50's with a wet ocean breeze is not something I like to sleep in. So I crashed until the sun came up and headed out for the two sites on Patmos the Cave of the Apocalypse (where the Apostle John is supposed to have written the book of Revelations), and the Monastery of St John the Theologian, a school/monastery built in honor of John. I started out hiking up the wrong hill. I figured it out as I reached the top and could see the monastery on an adjacent hill. Yeah for directions. Well lets just say that the tourist office is only open in the summer and not many people here in the off season speak English well. So I stopped and had breakfast looking out over the port of Skala which had an excellent view of the entire island and I am not exaggerating it is not very big. So I climb back down the hill and head for the right hill and find the cave. It is not much of a cave anymore as there is an entire complex of rooms and sanctuaries built around it. There is a small church that now occupies the cave with 'the holy spots' fenced or chained off to keep people from . . . I don't know rub the holiness off of them i guess. I got to catch the end of a Greek orthodox church service when I arrived at the cave and they insisted on me joining them for coffee at the priests house at the top of the complex. So even though they didn't speak much English and I do not understand any modern Greek, and I must confess I now know very little Greek at all since I haven't worked with it in almost a year, but we had basic pleasantries and I got some strong coffee and home baked cookies before I got to enter the cave. I spent a few hours in the cave and above it on a little overlook area reading the book the John wrote before I headed up to the monastery. Not looking much like a monastery, but a castle built on a hill, which it was, I was disappointed to find that the majority of the monastery was closed for renovations so I only got into the main courtyard but it had some spectacular frescoes painted on the wall depicting events and saint of the past. Well as my clock showed it getting on to a little after 1 pm and my ferry was to leave at 2:20 pm I thought it best to head on back down to town only to find out at 2:45 that the ferry had been canceled because of bad weather at some port I couldn't understand and there wouldn't be another boat back to Kos until tomorrow (23 sun) morning. Well I didn't see any point in going back to Kos just to come back through Patmos a few hour (hopefully) later as the ferry stops at Patmos on it's way to Athens so I made sure the ferry for tomorrow night was still going as best the knew and headed back to the only inn for another night. Needless to say I found ways to kill the time until the 1 am ferry to Athens on Sunday, I just wish it could have been on the beautiful beaches of the island sunning and swimming but it could have been much worse hey I was stranded on a Mediterainin Greek Island for an extra day with beautiful views and deep history