Tag: Greece
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Eretria
Day 50 Eretria, Evia Island When I took Meg out this morning the sea was like a mill pond, absolutely flat. Then, about an hour later, the wind started, just a gentle breeze with stronger gusts so we decided to walk into town for an explore. It takes about 25mins, part on the road and…
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Eretria on Evia Island
Day 49 Lavrio to Eretria, Evia. Leaving the little site in Lavrio we headed towards Greece’s biggest island Evia (forgot to go visit the temple of Poseidon!). Crossing the bridge at Chalcis we turned right and headed down the coast about an hour to a campsite in Eretria. Camping Milos. Nice little site, has a…
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Lavrio
Day 48 Lavrio (Laurium) We walked to the port of Lavrio, which took us about an hour via the main coast road. The first thing we saw was a ship loaded with wind turbine blades, and then saw a huge stack of them on the quayside. Not sure if they are made here or the…
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Nea Makri and fridge repairs
Day 47 Nea Makri to Laurium via The Camper Club, Athens. Up early, I took Meg for a walk to the beach. It was only 5 mins away and on a sunny day would be lovely. Today was windy and overcast but still warm. We had the usual initially aggressive dogs running up to us.…
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Corinth (city)
Day 46 Isthmia to Nea Makri, Marathon Via Corinth. Taking Meg on the beach this morning we saw another cruise ship, this one was Hapag-Lloyds Europa. We watched while the tenders ferried passengers to the port for we can only presume was tours of the many sites in this area. Just around the corner from…
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Ancient Corinth
Day 45 Palaia Epidauros to Isthmia via Ancient Corinth. It was going to be overcast all day today so we decided to head off and see some more ruins. Next on our list was Ancient Corinth and the Corinthian Canal. Just before the entrance to the camper stop we had chosen Gareth changed his mind…
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Palaia Epidaurus
Day 44 Palaia Epidaurus This little campsite is fab. It’s a bit dated services wise but it’s what we call an authentic Greek campsite, like an authentic Greek Taverna, few and far between on the well trodden tourist paths now. Today we took a walk along the beach to what they call the Sunken City…
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Epidaurus
Day 43 Kantias, Nafplio to Palaia Epidavros via the Ancient Theatre at the Asclepieion of Epidaurus. Do you remember me saying that the access road for the campsite was hairy? Well today was the reverse. We had to get our 4.5t front wheel drive van up and around the shiny concrete road. Managing to actually…
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Kantias, Nafplion
Day 42 Kantias, Nafplio First thing in the morning Meg and I took a walk to the nearest mini market for supplies. Not as successful as I’d hoped but we did get some steps in while it was still relatively cool. The views were amazing. Day 42 was mostly spent watching the coronation . Gareth…
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Mycenae
Day 41 Gythio Lakonias to Kantias, Nafplio via Mycenae (Mykines). Day 41 saw us heading for the ancient site of Mycenae. There were two sites next door to each other to visit. One is an amazing tomb with a conical roof. As it was robbed before it was properly discovered no artifacts were left for…