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Elafonissos: one of the best kept secrets in Greece revealed

Posted in Greece, Islands, Outdoors, Travel, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

To get to Elafonissos from Athens you have to turn south, enter the Peloponnese after you cross the Isthmus of Corinth,
climb the mountains of Arcadia, continue south to Laconia and the valley of Sparta, and before Cape Tainaron (one of the ancient Gates to Hades)
stop at the mouth of the bay of Neapolis. A [...]

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Trailing Centaurs

Posted in Greece, Mountains, Outdoors, Travel, tagged , , , , , , , on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

August 2003 was a very hot month and I thought that the emerald shores of
Mt. Pelion on the east coast of Central Greece,
whose magical thick forests were the legendary home of the Centaurs,
would provide the soothing solution.
What started as a short trip ended almost a month later as a tour of the
eastern coast of Greece, [...]

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