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Homepage
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INTRODUCTION
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June 2001 This is about our 15th trip to Greece
since 1991. We have visited about 42 islands, Epirus and the Meteora. For us, the most important keywords regarding travelling/vacation are: sightseeing, natural beauty, lovely coves, daily life scenery, villages, the local people and their lifestyles, eating out, a glass of wine and the greek music, of course. We mostly prepare our trip in advance but are liable to change our programme en route as we mostly make no reservations. We regularly use different travel guides and the Internet for the boat schedules (GTP: the official guide) and to check what kind of hotels there are. Reservations are only made when we know we will be arriving late in the evening or during the weekend. We arrived at the new airport of Spata (there is a long distance to cover before reaching the luggage arrival). Be careful for the taxidrivers (we had an unpleasant experience for the first time after all these years). Thanks to one of the policemen at the airport, who insist the driver should turn on his counter (the taxi driver already asked us 17000 GDR from Spata airport to Lavrion port, from where you get the boats to Kea). With the counter running we paid 7500 GDR incl. luggage, though I had to keep a close watch on the road because the driver was quite capable of prolonging the journey by pretending he didn't know the way to Lavrion. I had the up-to-date boat schedules
with me. There was a boat to Kea at 19.30. Remember that changes can
and do occur. The boat didn't turn up and so we had to stay one night
in Lavrion. This was no problem since there are many restaurants. Lavrion
does not have much accommodation. We asked several times and we were
always directed to the same hotel, though nobody knew the name of the
hotel. It was hotel 'Belle Epoque' close to the port, the one I had
found on Internet! At first sight it looked derelict. This hotel had
obviously known better times. It cost 17000 GDR without breakfast, incl.
airconditioning.
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A beautiful
but rather small island of the West-Cyclades. It has very nice landscapes. |
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Map of Merichas
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We
stayed at hotel Kythnos above a zacharoplasteion very close
to the port (a little stairway on your left). The room was rather small,
old fashioned but clean. We paid 9000 GDR incl. breakfast, which you can
take on the terrace of the zacharoplasteion. From here you can enjoy the
port activities |
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Estiatorio ‘Sailors’ (Merichas)
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Along the promenade. Nice food and very friendly and service; try the local wine! |
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Estiatorio ‘Gialos’ (Merichas)
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Next
to Sailors – very good!
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Merichas |
coming! |
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Chora Driopida |
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Ag. Dimitrios |
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Kanala |
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Loutra |
