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Day studied his detailed map of Naxos while sitting in his car out of the wind. Sifones lay north of Apeiranthos and was relatively accessible by road, whereas the church of Panagia Chrysopigi was much more difficult to reach and further from the Di Quercia Tower. In Sotiris’s position, Day would choose Sifones. He refolded the map meticulously and threw it on the passenger seat.
He drove through Agkidia, Halki and Moni, heading north. Once he had left the coastal area, the car was far less buffeted by the wind, and after Halki it barely seemed a force at all. High above, however, the sky was stormy, pelted with dark cloud behind which a serene blue sky occasionally shone.
He was about five kilometres north of Apeiranthos on the country road when he made out the dome of an old church
