Tag - Beach Holidays

AGIIAS BEACH

The north of Peloponnese was very difficult to navigate to some beach accessible with our truck, finally, we found east of Patras large and busy Agiias beach. We arrived there just for the sunset, it’s a pebble beach on the rocky coast with deep and cold waters, there are also showers...

ITILO BEACH

After a long day on the scooter, we drove just 10 minutes downhill from Areopoli to very little Itilo beach. It is one of two beaches in a large bay, it’s a pebble beach with some sandy spots and umbrellas with chairs for 10 EUR / day. There is a minimarket, gyros fast food, Oasis bar...

PORI BEACH

After extended sightseeing, we drove a few kilometers to the north to Pori beach. It is one of the longest beaches in the Peloponnese, with an excellent view of old Monemvasia and its fortress. Its two kilometers long beach, mainly sandy with small pebbles, the south bеach end has sоme...

MONEMVASIA (Μονεμβασία)

Surrounded by the teal waters of the Aegean Sea, imposing Monemvasia is an iceberg-like slab of rock, with sheer cliffs rising hundreds of meters from the sea, linked to the mainland by a single, highly defensible 200 meters long causeway. While uninhabited in antiquity, the rock may have...

MAVROVOUNI BEACH

On the way to the south, we stopped for an overnight at the largest beach in Laconia located just two kilometers from the town of Gythion. It is six kilometers long sandy beach with small pebbles. It gets livelier in summer, but thanks to its size, it never gets overcrowded. We parked...

PALIOCHANO BEACH

We made a relaxed overnight at the gravel car park next to the sandy beach in Arcadia, just four kilometers from Paralio Astros. We arrived there in the evening and parked next to the scary abandoned church, but the ghosts were friendly and let us sleep. The next morning we got a...

NAFPLIO (Ναύπλιο)

We spent the afternoon in the small charming city of Nafplio. It occupies a knockout waterside location beneath the towering Palamidi fortress and is graced with attractive narrow streets, elegant Venetian houses, neoclassical mansions, and interesting museums. It’s also chock-full of...

KARATHONA BEACH

To forget the heat of Athens and Mycenae, we took a one-day beach holiday at gorgeous palm-tree-lined long sandy Karathona Beach. We had great parking in a shade of a big tree, the whole beach is flat and easy to walk. There are two restaurants and a few beach bars with snack food and...

GALAXIDI (Γαλαξίδι)

We made it to the harbor of the picturesque and laid-back town of Galaxidi. Morning walks and quiet evenings with food or drink are very much the order of the day, as locals say, Galaxidi “talks through its silence”. The town is tucked away along the northern shores of the Corinthian Gulf...

NAFPAKTOS (Ναύπακτος)

Laid-back beaches and lush green landscape brought us to the Gulf of Corinth to a little charming town of Nafpaktos. The town was an important Athenian naval station in the Peloponnesian war. Town changed hands many times during the Crusades and the Ottoman–Venetian Wars. It was under...