INTRODUCTION

 

 

Juni 2002

A new challenge (visiting some minor islands) was awaiting us. What would life be like on these smaller islands? What could we expect?
With the information about boat schedules and searoutes provided by the Greek Travel Pages (http://www.gtp.gr/) we planned a journey starting from Samos and continuing along Lipsi, Fourni, Patmos, Agathonisi and Arki.
At the end of May it’s much too early to be able to rely on these schedules because they are subject to frequent changes.
Nevertheless, with the exception of Arki, we managed to visit all of them.

 

General
Accommodation
Restaurants
Places
Photogallery
Links to Agathonissi
Homepage (links to other islands)

 

 

GENERAL


We arrived at Agathonissi with the ‘Kalymnos’ in about 2 hours and were the only tourists disembarking.
The very quiet island is hilly with a lot of shrubs (flowering at that time).
There is no public transport on the island, but the inhabitants will easily offer you a lift.
The roads between places are asphalted.

 

ACCOMMODATION

 

Theologies rooms

Though not having made reservations, we were awaited by a member of the family of Theologies Rooms (the last one on the waterfront). The room was very basic but large and clean (15 Eur).
As we were the only guests we had the big balcony with a view on the whole port just for us.

 



PLACES

 

Megalo Chorio

This is the main village with a couple of tavernas, a small shop and a church.
From here you can start the walk to Katholiko.

Mikro Chorio

This is the main village with a couple of tavernas, a small shop and a church.
From here you can start the walk to Katholik
o.

It’s only a 15-minute walk to Mikro Chorio, a very small place with just a couple of farmhouses and a little chapel.

Katholiko Starting from Megalo Chorio, we reached the abandoned fishing port of Katholiko in about half an hour. Here you’ll still find a little fishing activity. The landscape during the walk is enjoyable. We often saw herds of shy goats, but the friendly dog who followed us all the way from Megalo Chorio frightened the goats, so we couldn’t take any pictures.
On our way back we were lucky to get a lift from a local farmer, and left the dog to find its own way home. We felt sorry because the dog was old and in pretty poor state.

 

Beaches

Spilia beach: this small pebbled beach is only five minutes by foot. With the exception of a small yacht crew, we were the only visitors at the time.

 

RESTAURANTS

 

Seagul (Glaros)

Offers a nice view. The food was excellent. They offered a wide variety of dishes. The ones we tried being very tasty and freshly prepared: giant beans (gigantej), sausages (loukanika), garlic dip (skordalia)
As we stayed just one night we could try only one of them.

http://www.aegean-news.gr/Agathonisi/agathon/glaros/glaros.html

 

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LINKS TO AGATHONISSI

 


http://www.geocities.com/artem73/agathonisi/MapsPhotosEn.html
http://info.supereva.it/alicetwain/agathonissi.html?p
http://www.greeklodgings.gr/Pages/Sales/agathonisi/en/
http://www.choosegreece.com/aregion.asp?Id=144
http://agatonisi.router.nu/index.shtml
http://www.sy-thetis.org/Thetis2001/ToLeros/ToLeros.html
http://www.aegean-news.gr/Agathonisi/agathon/agathon.html
http://www.12net.gr/agathonisi/index.html