Greece: Sea and history

ITINERARY

(I - YU) Milan, Gorizia, Ljubljana
(YU) Zagreb, Belgrade, Nis
(YU - GR) Skopje, Salonnicco, Nea Potidea
(GR) Kassandra peninsula, Larissa
(GR) Itea, Delphi, Parnassus
(GR) Mount Parnassus, Antirio, Pilos
(GR) Pilos, Koroni, Agios Andreas
(GR) Agios Andreas, Mistra ', Tripolis
(GR) Tripolis, Nauplia, Tirinto, Epidaurus, Larissa, Lamia
(GR) Lamia, Salonnicco, Armenistis (Sithonia)
(GR) Armenistis, Sarti, Marmara
(GR - YU) Marmara, Nea Moudania, Salonnicco, Nis
(YU - A) Nis, Belgrade, Novi Sad, Vukovar, Nasice, Varaždin, Maribor, Graz
(A - I) Graz, Lienz, San Candido
(I) Dobbiaco, Bruneck, Verona, Milan

 

We start from Ljubljana and at 8 o'clock in the morning and, unfortunately, is fog in the first stage of the journey that we slow down the pace. Let Zagreb and Belgrade, where we do the full. Towards evening we arrived in Nis have to sleep and wait for the morning to continue doing diesel.
On the way there are lots of caravans in Poland, we have looked at their full peak holiday season! The Yugoslav police calls continuously checks the documents and forms. Are 21.30 and most of the traffic, thankfully, was' directly after Nis towards Sofia. For highway spending about 8000 dyn, almost all the din that we had. L '; inflation is really high.

We start from Nis to 7th While we sleep, my father began to take the autosdrada until the first stop to refuel diesel. Let arrived from Skopje and the Greek customs are several code. We can only pass customs at 11.30. Lunch and change U.S. dollars into drachmas. Upon Salonnicco remake of the full and to arrive 16 Nea Potidea where we stop to sleep parked near the beach.
The sea is turquoise and transparent, the beach pilita, fine and soft!
The navigable channel transforms the Kassandra peninsula an island.

We are at Nea Potidea to do some 'sea. Tractors in the morning to go clean the beach and the sand in the afternoon but a vigilant asks us to move: it had, in fact, stopped 6 or 7 campers, including another Italian. Too many camper near the sea do not like to watch because, for them, transforming the parking lot at a campground. One or two, however, not disturb them.
Visit the camp of Sani who is beautiful but too far from the sea for my mother who has a broken foot and is also less good than that of Nea Potidea.
Walk down the eastern side of Kassandra peninsula with beautiful landscapes.
Polihrono to find a campsite near the sea with even the current at 220 V.

both the sea! There are 36 degrees but it is ventilated and is really good.

Polihrono to start from 15th Larissa Before we visit the Source of Daphne. Descend to the river to take photos. Nice but nothing special, it's nice to think, but to the history of this place. Pause even to the sanctuary little more 'forward: there are stalls and a nice jumper in cement suspended. Taste of fresh local produce, very good.
We cross the plain of Larissa with a hot 40 ° C with sultriness after Larissa do diesel, dinner with the products purchased and are assessing whether to pass the night. But the place is full of mosquitoes, we continue heading towards Anfissa. After a few kilometers, stopping in a nice bar-distributor. In camper but we are still full of mosquitoes that were previously entered!

Thursday '06.08.87 THE MUSE!
We start in the morning and go to Anfissa the hill called the Sea of Olives to Itea, which we reach by mistake. Once at Delphi, passing the beautiful city without stopping to head to the Sanctuary of Apollo: Museum, excavations, and all the way up to the stage on top of the hill. The heat is torrid, but it's worth it!
The heat is too strong for another stop and continue across the country carpets Arahova where buy fruits and vegetables always fresh. The ascent to Parnassus is long and hot, we reach the square of the chairlifts, the higher the 14. Parnassus is a mountain famous for millennia. E 'barren, burnt by the sun and surrounded by a ring of rugged peaks. Is used in winter for skiing and we stimao just taking advantage of the parking lot of the lifts. With my father we climb towards the summit of the mountain: from above, in fact, one can see from one side Athens the other the sea. The climb is hard, the grass is burnt and full of bumble bees that try to collect the pollen of the few flowers still not burned. There is a tree, anything. At some point the thermos of cool water out! We hear the scampanellio of a flock el'abbaiare of a dog but do not see anyone. While we meet three boys who were going Bergamo. Towards evening from the front wall of the mountain leaving a flock from an opening hidden from view. Who knows where it came from! It was certainly what we had previously heard. Dinner with our neighbors, who are just in cars and sleeping bag, offering a kitchen, tables, chairs. Tell us about their travel experience. It is late, the wind gets up and decide to go in search of a campsite. The full moon is reflected on the white mountains and seems to almost the day of a lunar landscape. The wind of a sudden becomes rimorosissimo. My father is worried about the windows of the camper, but left on the apron, there's a breath of wind! Strange ...
At some point start to feel the muse! Deafening chorus of women singing melodies with mouth closed ... the sound is loud and melodious, songs are true ... but how is this possible? My father comes back to the square: the night has become black, you do not see anything, there is a light, silence is the herd and the dog, the air is still. The wind, affraversando the ridges, the thousand steps on jagged peaks and barren, create melodious songs of the woman, the muse, the muse of famous Parnaso that the Greeks praised! We are living a unique experience: that there are differences with respect to that point. We alone, among these mountains remains deserted, without housing, with only low walls to provide shelter for sheep.

After the sleepless night we descend along the beautiful scenic road from ITEA surrounded by red rocks until Antirio. In the Gulf of Corinth, cooked by the hot stop for swimming in a sea almost cold and transparent.
Ferry (630 Dr) to Rio (Peloponnese).
Go from Patras doce advantage for shopping and dining. Before Kiparissi there are beautiful beaches with pine trees and sand dunes to the beaches Simola Danes. At 16 we Pilos, where to park near the sea in the Gulf of Navarrino and where other campers met in Milan. Dinner, all together in a small restaurant on the sea. (1600 drachmas).

We, at a hotel to call home.
The day is dedicated to the sea, the sun and swimming! After you have rested and enjoyed the beautiful place we leave to and from 17 to Methoni Pilos direct where to buy the road from local farmers, fresh sultanas: spectacular! New camp between Methoni and Koroni, senz'ombra but still beautiful and the temperature is high. Dicidiamo, and then to continue coming, just in Agios Andreas, where we find a aampeggio finally among the olive trees (500 Dr / g). Even add 1 quart of oil to the engine ...

Stop at the camping of Agios Andreas: sea beach beautiful but decidedly lower than Chalcidice. Camping in almost all Greeks, most of the city on holiday at the seaside. Most graduated in humanities (lawyers, history, literature), and all speak perfect English. All movies are broadcast on television only in the original language that are used by small sin to try to understand the language.
Near the beach there is a fish restaurant. (Dr 1800). Buy from local farmers an excellent olive oil.
The temperature is around 40 ° C and the climate is sultry.

Departure for the Argolida Nauplia with a stop at where we change 400 dollars into drachmas.
Visitamo the beautiful Tirinto with its particular times of the warehouses of the palace and, after we reach Epidaurus. Lunch in the gardens prior to the excavations in search of a bit of cool because the temperature is very high. The archaeological excavations are interesting, the theater is still perfect. The acoustics, which is famous in the world. Icredibile. From top of the stands feel the whispers of tourists at the center of the stage! The museum is unfortunately closed for weekly rest. We buy beautiful cards in almost all archaeological sites.
After the tour we start on the north. Visit Corinth, famous not only in history, even for the Strait. Continue on to where we witness a clash paurosissimo front in the direction opposite to ours, with the British (they had taken the highway to the contrary). A few minutes later we feel relief arrived. Shocked we leave the motorway at Madras, to climb the mountains towards Thiva. Lamia before stopping at the sea for dinner and swimming in very clear water. Yet we continue to get to sleep a few kilometers from Baths of Venus, which will visit the following morning.

We start in the direction of Thessaloniki and reach the camping Armenistis to 12th Is 12 km from Dr Sarti 1802 / g, stop in the shadow of a great maritime pine. Our neighbors are rossissimi (meaning burnt) Germans. The sea is wonderful, the beach beautiful: we decide to stay here for a few days. E ', in fact, the sea more beautiful than we have seen in the Mediterranean.
My father still has to make 1 kg of oil in the engine of the camper ...

My father went to Sarti to buy extension cords and power necessary to call the round trips are offered by the tourists. There are, in fact any kind of links with the rest of the world.
Sarti is a small agricultural town where one room serves as a post and where there is also the only public telephone.

TUESDAY up to '18 AUGUST

We enjoy the fantastic sea Armenistis of the camp and the pleasant company of the local tourists as well as a family of Bolzano.

Departure from the campsite to Marmara.
I have high fever and, Marmara, in Porto Carras in pharmacy buy medicines. Are bulk and numbered, also has a tachipirina Bad taste.

Leaving from Marmara towards Nea Moudania by telephone in a home and acquistatiamo some souvenirs. I'm much better. Prior to the border with Yugoslavia, again full of diesel. Costs less in Greece!
We arrive at 13 past the border and arrive in Yugoslavia on 17 with a light rain. At Duty Free Shop acquistaiamo products but are more 'expensive than in Greece. Change in all Dinari drachmas (= 80 000 Dyn).
After the break we resume the journey until we reach 23 when Nis.

Jugoslavia

Partez from Belgrade to Nis, and Novi Sad, Vukovar, Osijek Varazdin Virovitica Nasice.
This area of former Yugoslavia is beautiful with large motion of stork nests on the roofs. A Yugoslav tells us, full of pride, that the stork of their country had 5 cicognotti.
In Maribor riuciamo not to take the road to Dravograd, q, we have decided to follow the signs for Graz. The boundary change in the Dinari Shillings (000 Dyn 34 Shillings = 437)