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INDEPENDENT TRAVEL IN GREECE, PART I - RHODES

16 September 2014 • Travel time: with 03 august 2014 on 19 august 2014
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INTRODUCTION

Once again, I welcome dear travelers!

This time I will tell you about my trip to Greece with my wife, and even to 3 places: to Rhodes, to Kalamata (a city on the southern coast of the Peloponnese peninsula) and to Athens. It turned out to be a difficult trip, not without fatigue associated with moving, of course, but we visited quite a lot of places. Total rested from 3.08. 14 to 19.08. fourteen.

HOW TO READ THE REPORT

As usual, a small warning: the report will not be written in a book-newspaper style and will be to a greater or lesser extent (this is how it will turn out) flavored with jargon, including those invented by myself, but seemingly intuitive (if something it will not be clear, I will “translate” at the first request). I warn you right away that not everyone likes this style of presentation, so if someone doesn’t like something, they are advised to immediately close this page and move on to more interesting reading.


However, anyone probably understands this himself, but for some reason many people forget about it, and then they start squealing like a pig in the comments, they say, why did I read all this. So I remind you once again: to read this opus, especially in its entirety, is your right, but not an obligation, therefore claims to the style of presentation are not accepted. Well, corrections / clarifications / additions in essence, of course, are welcome. For readability, the text will be divided into heading paragraphs so that everyone can read what they are interested in and skip what is not. In general, for those who have not yet closed this page, I propose to proceed to reading the report itself.

INDEPENDENTLY OR THROUGH A TRAVEL AGENCY?

The argument in favor of the turaga (not to be confused with the slammer) was the lack of visas for the period of the trip.

But, as practice has shown, obtaining a visa is not such a terrible thing, but the tourists have recently begun to go bankrupt one after another, so we decided: we fly on our own, and only on our own.

HOTEL BOOKING

Hotels were booked on the well-known Booking. In Rhodes, we booked the Best Western Rodian Gallery 3 * hotel (850 Jews for a night without food), and in Kalamata - Pharae Palace (570 for 6 nights with breakfast). That is, we got the first rooming house for 85 Jews per night (by the way, it is in this currency that all prices will be indicated in the future, unless otherwise agreed), and the second - for 95.

BOOKING AIR TICKETS

Tickets were booked on 17.02. 14 on my bank's website. Tickets Moscow - Rhodes cost us then 17.128 rubles. , ticket Rhodes - Kalamata only for the wife - at 1482.60 rubles. , and finally tickets Athens - Moscow - at 17.373, 60 rubles. As for the ticket Rhodes - Kalamata for myself, I bought it for miles, which turned out to be enough for this.

Still, however, I had to pay extra for one piece of luggage through the Aegean Airlines website, since it is not provided for free transportation on the Rhodes-Kalamata flight. Well, if we hadn’t paid this pyatnik through the site, then we would have had to lay out a quarter already on the spot.

REGISTRATION OF MEDICAL INSURANCE

We go to the website of Rosgosstrakh, Tinkov or some other company that provides for online insurance, select the option you like, pay for it by credit card, print the insurance in the required number of copies, and it's done. Just in case, you can order a medical insurance and soap.

OBTAINING VISAS


My dear wife came to the visa center and submitted pre-assembled documents for visas, one might say, without a queue (well, maybe there were 3-4 people in front of her, but is it really a queue, given that this queue is electronic, and the windows are there lots of? ). T. to.

her passport expires in April next year, we were given multiple visas for only 3 months. By the way, they offered me a visa for a longer period (which one, history is silent), but my wife refused. On the one hand, maybe it’s right, because anyway, then I’ll go to the docks for visas to apply, but on the other hand, then I would have to make fewer gestures another time, this is firstly, and secondly, it would be possible save on visa fees. Well, okay, it's all the little things. What worries me more is that recently the Greek embassy has a requirement to provide hotel reservations at least 30% prepaid, which entails quite serious inconvenience. Well, nothing, I think, in connection with this, the flow of tourists to Greece will subside, and the Greeks will understand that to introduce such a rule - that against the wind ...well, in general, you understand.

Someone even made such an argument in defense of this innovation that, they say, some dishonest people book hotels just for the sake of obtaining a visa, and then the reservation is canceled, and poor hotels then suffer, but I don’t think they suffer, since they give them the opportunity to cancel booking 2 - 5 days before arrival. If hotels really suffered, they would choose a policy, like the vast majority of Estonian hotels, where bookings are made without the possibility of cancellation at all. Or at least introduced the same non-refundable prepayment in the amount of a certain share. In general, such problems should be solved at the level of a single hotel, but not at the state level.

Part I - RHODES

Day 1, Sunday, 3.08. fourteen

Flew Aegean Airlines (Aegean Airlines) from Domik. I like this company with Greek-speaking stewardesses, comfortable seats in planes and monitors that show the path of the aircraft


. You can register for a flight on their website as early as 48 hours before departure (and if necessary, pay for luggage, this can be done at least immediately after booking a ticket, and it’s quite profitable - see to the north), which we did, grabbing our trump cards. But the places in the toilet, to our surprise, were already occupied: apparently, some kind of turaga booked them among others. By the way, about one turaga. At the check-in desk at the airport, there was an announcement that, due to the ruin of the Labyrinth turagi (what a name - well, not Ivan Susanin! , and pay for overnight stays out of your own pocket. But it's true, lyrics. In general, we quickly checked in our luggage, went through customs, border control and pre-flight search, and without any delay headed for Rhodes.

The flight went just fine: polite flight attendants, comfortable seats, a fairly large distance between them. When the flight attendants served drinks, I saw only juices, water and other meaningless drinks on the cart, but I wanted something meaningful. Therefore, when the stewardesses with the cart reached me, I asked them in Greek if they, by chance, had a wine. They answered me that yes, of course, there is, and asked which one I prefer, white or red. I chose the second. I was given a small bottle of 187 ml and glasses. If someone is interested in the route of the plane in connection with the events in Ukraine, then we flew by its side - through Georgia and Turkey.

ARRIVAL TO RHODES

We went through passport control pretty quickly (I really had to “turn on my legs”), they also got my luggage, they also wanted to synchronize the time via Wi-Fi, but he worked badly there, so I had to do it later - already in the rooming house where he worked great throughout.

MOVING FROM THE AIRPORT TO THE CAPITAL

We decided to go to the capital, which, like the island itself, is also called Rhodes, by bus, which stops to the left of the exit from the airport. The bus driver, I must say, is of a cattle-like type. Not a soviet LiAZ, of course, but not a comfortable intercity bus either. The fare is 2.30 per person, the ticket is purchased directly from the driver. We drove for about 30 minutes. While driving, along the way, I copied the label of my favorite Franciscanner at one of the establishments. As it turned out later, it was about 8 km from our hotel, but more on that to the south.

We got off at the final station, but it was still far from the very cape of the island, where our hotel was located.

HOTEL SEARCH BEST WESTERN RODIAN GALLERY


Finding a hotel was no easy task. Of course, I asked the locals in Greek where it was, but they either did not know, or they misinformed me, because there are hotels with similar names. In general, I had to walk around with suitcases a bit. It would be better if they took a taxi driver. And in a good way, the taxi driver had to be taken from the airport in general: without any hemorrhoids, they would have got there for some quarter, if not cheaper.

CHECK IN HOTEL

We finally found our hotel, where we were welcomed with open arms. After quickly filling out the cards, the employee gave us a key-card, as well as a key to the front door of the rooming house - in case we somehow return long after midnight.

Then we squeezed our luggage into a goofy elevator with accordion doors, like in the already mentioned soviet cattle truck, and went to the second floor (or rather, actually to the third, because the countdown of floors there starts from the second, and sometimes from the third). An attempt to open the door to the room was unsuccessful. We applied the cards this way and that - bald horseradish. Then I went downstairs and asked the employee what the hell. He reprogrammed the cards and offered to try again. This time they worked perfectly, both of them.

The room turned out to be very spacious, even more than that - two-room, and both rooms were spacious. In the first room there were 2 double beds - quite comfortable, a table with a mirror, and a large mirror also hung on the wall. In the second room there was a folding sofa (with an additional roll-out board at the bottom), where two more guests could take a nap.


There was also a kitchenette in the room with a set of kitchen utensils (microwave, electric kettle, coffee machine, pots, pans, plates, glasses, glasses, ladle, corkscrew, etc. ), and a refrigerator with a freezer. The plumbing was also quite modern, only the shower cabin let us down: it was just a pallet with small sides, enclosed by a curtain. But at least there was a normal mix, with a watering can on the hose, and not built into the wall. It should be noted that care must be taken with this undercabin: although there is a drain hole in the floor, the floor, apparently, was built by drunk guest workers, as a result of which the water that got on the floor somehow does not particularly rush to the drain hole, which means it will most likely flow to the premises below. In the second room of the room there was also a flat-wall "ski" TV and a free-key chest (the key was sticking out in the same place), attached to the wall almost at floor level, which is rather inconvenient.

There were already 2 air conditioners in the room - one per room, however, there was only one remote control. There was also a balcony with a table and chairs where you could sit for romantic evenings. The only pity is that it does not overlook the sea, but the street, but not in the trash. In general, despite some shortcomings, quite a livable room. Room cleaning was also no problem.

CAF? CENTRAL

Where do all normal tourists go first after checking into a hotel? That's right, the beach. But - only if the time is not very late. And since we settled in a rooming house only around 19.30, it was already a bit late to go to the beach, therefore, the stump is clear, we went to one of the catering establishments where local barkers are trying to drag tourists. Caf? was chosen as such an institution. Central, which was not the best decision: Glimberg beer is a little expensive there - 4.90 for 0.33 l. For the price, you could have found a better one.

Well, the zhrachka is quite edible, just like everywhere else.

Day 2, Monday, 4.08. fourteen

BEACH NEAR THE HOTEL

Well, where does every normal tourist go first of all from the room of the room on the second day of his stay? That's right, breakfast. But since we didn’t have breakfast, we cooked it ourselves, having bought it the day before at the supermarket, after which we went to the beach on the eastern side of the cape, because it was closer to us. And the beach there turned out to be quite pleasant: albeit not purely sandy, but sandy and pebbly. The entrance to the water is moderately steep. Or moderately gentle - as you like. But, in short, it will suit everyone: both those who can swim and those who are not. The water there is very clean, and what a warm! Straight milk. But this is only on the northwestern cape: in other parts of the island, the beaches will be worse: either the water is colder, or the entrances are more gentle, or the bottom is more rocky, or all at once.


A set of two sunbeds and an umbrella costs 8 there, but we took our own umbrellas (a couple of pieces were left over from previous trips), and we bought mats in one of the local supermarkets, for 3.50. However, if you plan to lie on the beach every day on deck chairs and you have no problems with knowing languages, then you can bargain and bring down the price a little. There is a bar on the beach, where you can buy both meaningful and meaningless drinks, as well as some kind of sandwich that you, if you wish (your, of course), will be heated in the microwave. Beer costs 2.50 there (it is, however, entirely analytical, but without fish, as they say, you yourself will become cancer). Well, if you go to the bar to scrap, then you can wait for the “waiter” - a Greek or Afro-Greek with a “refrigerator” (a foam box with ice), which runs there about every 5 minutes, and buy beer from him, however, already for a triple . Agree, not such a high margin for home delivery - only some 20%.

And you can take several cans of beer at once right in the “refrigerator”, which, however, then needs to be returned, although you can just leave it on the beach, and then the “waiters” will pick it up themselves. I also bought wine at the beach bar - just the same one that I was treated to on the plane, I don’t remember just how much. Of course, it is not only drinks that are sold by traveling vendors on this beach. If desired, you can also buy sliced ​ ​ ​ ​ fruits (watermelons, melons, mangoes, pineapples, etc. ), tea, coffee, buns, sunglasses, watches, jewelry, hairpins, baseball caps, hats, panamas and more. For fans of extreme sports, there is a tower nearby from which you can jump (height, it seems, is 6-8 meters), as well as all kinds of water pillows, parachutes, bananas, etc. It’s a pity, I didn’t see water scooters there.

RESTAURANT TO THE LEFT OF THE HOTEL EXIT (I DONT REMEMBER THE NAME)

In this restaurant, the beer was already cheaper (in terms of quality it is all about the same there) - 3.90 for 0.5 l.

They also took 8-leg in vinegar (9.90), beef baked with tomatoes and cheese called “exohiko” (8.90) and lamb baked in foil called “kleftiko” (10.90). Everything is pretty tasty.

On that day, we also walked along the promenade, which offers all kinds of sea excursions to neighboring islands and even to Turkey. There are also walks along Rhodes itself, including night ones.

Day 3, Tuesday, 5.08. fourteen

PIZZERIA VOLCANO AT THE HOTEL

Nothing special happened that day: we swam on the beach, walked around the city, etc. We also went to the Volcano pizzeria at the hotel (to the right of the exit). The choice of dishes there is rather meager, there is almost nothing from national dishes, the main menu is pizza and spaghetti. Although this place, of course, is called that - a pizzeria, other pizzerias will have a richer menu - by no means only pizza and pasta.

BEACH FROM THE WEST SIDE OF THE CAPE


Purely for the sake of sporting interest, we walked to the beach on the western side of the cape.

There were big waves and a strong wind was blowing. Moreover, the same atmospheric phenomena persisted there during the entire time of our stay on the island, so the western side of the cape is not the best place for a beach holiday.

Day 4, Wednesday, 6.08. fourteen

On this day, we went to the aquarium, located on a cape not far from "our" rooming house, to look at all sorts of exotic fish and other marine reptiles. Entrance fee (5.50 per person), but there is something to see. It’s a pity that the pictures didn’t turn out the best, because it’s forbidden to take pictures with a flash there.

Even that day (and not only that day) we went to look at car rental offices, which, it must be said, are not so many there. And since we had to somehow expand the radius of their search for scrap, we decided to stop at one of those that was next to our rooming house.

As a result, we chose a cool gelendvagen called Toyota Aygo (I really wanted to try out the “Japanese”). We took it for 4 days, which cost us 222 + 6 per day for the lack of a franchise, which was something like three hundred. Fuck the price! I remember that in Crete in 2011 we took about the same trough 2 times cheaper, i. e. for the same price, but for 8 days, and even “with a trip” (i. e. , we take a car, for example, On the 15th in the morning for 8 days, and they must return it on the 23rd at least by the end of the office’s working day, and if the office is already closed, then you can just leave the car to them and throw the keys into a special box). In 2010, under the same conditions, we rented a Hyundai Matrix on the same Crete for 320 for 8 days. Here, on the contrary, the client's time is cut: a day is the period from the opening to the closing of the office - from 8 to 19 hours. That is, if, for example, you took a trough for a day, then it doesn’t matter what time you took it, but by 19 o’clock on the same day you must return it. For every hour of delay they tear up as for 1/5 of the day of rent.


Be that as it may, we left a deposit in the amount of a steward for the car, so that we could pick it up the next day.

NIKOS FISH TAVERNA

We dined that day at a fish tavern called Nikos Fish, about which my wife read on the Internet that the Greeks themselves eat there. Well, what can I say, the choice of dishes is large, a lot of varieties of different fish, prices are average, delicious. But as for the fact that mostly Greeks eat there, this is a star: mostly Russians eat there. We were served by a waiter named Leonardo, half Greek, half Italian, he said. Having learned about this, I immediately switched to Italian with him, however, as it turned out, if he had ever known it, he had almost forgotten it, and I again switched to Greek. By the way, he also knows something in Russian at the level of “hi, karasho, how are you. ” We tried a sea urchin salad there - it's cool, but there was no desire to repeat it again.

But it was not available. And in general, it seems to me, he existed there only on paper. Okay, enough of the sad stuff. The koryteshnik turned out to be, although worn, but quite serviceable, the air conditioner inside it also worked perfectly. But in general, in mountainous conditions, it’s somehow dumb to take such low-powered crooks: you go down the mountain to see some sight, and the engine power may not be enough to drive back up the mountain. However, this misfortune has passed us, thank you, MTS symbols!

SIANA VILLAGE

Taking a trough, we hit the road along the western coast of Rhodes. The wife had with her a selection of places, previously dug up on the Internet and debunked, which were recommended to visit. One of these places turned out to be the village of Siana (??? ? ? ) - a place clearly designed for Russian tourists, where they are taken even by sightseeing buses.


There are inscriptions in Russian everywhere, some sellers also speak Russian, however, at about the same level as the aforementioned waiter Leonardo from the fish tavern. Local olive oil is offered (I wonder where it is not offered at all in Greece ... ), honey, soap, wine, and, of course, local moonshine - suma (??? ? ? ) with a strength, as it is written on the price tag, about half a dollar. Well, otherwise, how else can you lure a Russian tourist there? There, even as a kind of exhibit, there was a moonshine still. We decided to take a plastic container of moonshine in the shape of a grenade for a snout (Bukhara, however, as it turned out later, turned out to be no stronger than 30%) and a jar of honey for the same price. Of the sights, in addition to the moonshine, there is also some kind of church.

PRASONISSI PENINSULA

Further, after swimming on one of the wild beaches, we decided to head for the Prasonisi peninsula (??????? ? ?

You can change clothes in special booths, and if they are busy, then in the toilet. By the way, here it is - traditional ...

A LYRICAL DIRECTION ABOUT THE LOTS

The vast majority of toilets in Greece are still in a deplorable state, especially near the beaches: either the drain does not work, or there is no water in the sink, or paper, or a latch on the door (instead of them, hooks are often attached, as in the village "birdhouses" ). Much more cultured toilets in all sorts of bars-restaurants: there at least someone is watching them. Some are downright chic. Well, by Greek standards, of course.

BEACH EQUIPMENT

It has already been said about sunbeds and umbrellas to the north, but it will also be said to the south - in the story of Kalamata. Now I want to talk about changing cabins and showers (not spiritually, of course, but in sanitary and hygienic terms).

So, there is enough of this goodness on local beaches, unlike the beaches of Spain (there, of course, they are also there, but in much smaller quantities, like toilets). Showers are available, as a rule, both for general rinsing from salty sea water, and for rinsing feet from sand, which is very convenient.

ABOUT PARKING IN RHODES

With parking in Rhodes, as elsewhere, tension, but not fatal. As in Spain, you need to look at the marking lines: yellow - parking is prohibited, blue - parking is paid, white - free parking. Next to our rooming house there was such an oval square, on which there were even signs with the inscription "FREE PARKING". True, it was not always easy to find a place there, but we always found: someone would leave on their own business, and the area is quite large.


Please note that there are several exits to the roadway on this square (apparently for the disabled), and so, it is forbidden to park there, and even special yellow lines are applied. In other places, wherever we went, we also found parking lots, and free ones. Well, at least they didn't get a single fine. The only problem may be to park in the shade, especially when the sun is almost at its zenith.

SPORTS GRILL BAR ARENA

Having made a kind of “round-the-world trip” around Rhodes, we went to one good restaurant next to our rooming house, where everyone is dragged almost by the hand by a barker named Spyros. The quality of the food there is about the same as everywhere else (I have already talked about Greek food in detail in my reports about Crete in 2010-2011).

, so I don’t see the point in repeating myself, but “at the request of radio listeners” I can do this in the comments), but there is an interesting beer there - Maisel’s Weisse (for those who don’t know, Weisse is not a filter). We ordered a portion of meatballs (?????????? ? ? ) and lamb ribs (??????? ? ? ), the latter, however, turned out to be fatty. Cocktails serve a good Margarita - strawberry, mango, raspberry, kiwi, apple and peach. And in this restaurant, according to my wife, they serve a very tasty chocolate soufflé with ice cream, which I didn’t even try because I drank beer.

Day 6, Friday, 8.08. fourteen

On this day, we decided to go to Lindos (???? ? ? ) to climb the local fortress, and, of course, swim on the local beach, but in the end we decided to limit ourselves to the second. This fortress was located very high there, so it was necessary to climb there, especially on Rhodes there were enough other fortresses, but already with more convenient access.

In general, we considered it enough just to take a picture against the background of that very fortress. The beach is sandy, rather gentle and, of course, the sea is not as warm as on the northwestern cape of the island. There was still a small problem with parking: all the places were occupied. However, the owner of one of the fish taverns kindly freed us a place for parking, well, we, as decent people, after swimming in the sea, had to dine in his tavern. The fish there turned out to be quite tasty, and the prices are quite affordable.

HARAKI CITY


Next, we decided to stop by the city of Charaki (???? ? ? ), next to which is the FERAKLOS CASTLE fortress, but it turned out that the fortress is located on a hill and even with the paths up there, strain. In addition, it was no longer even a fortress, but just ruins, so we decided to score on them.

Our next destination was 7 springs, which appear on local road signs as “Epta Piges” or “? ? ? ? ??? ? ? ".

Behind us, other tourists encouraged us with words like “it’s not at all scary here until you get to the crocodiles, ” which inspired great optimism. : ))) Finally, we saw the light at the end of the tunnel, which turned out to be by no means the headlights of an approaching train, as in a well-known joke. Do you know such a joke? Now I'll tell you about it, since it's short.

A pessimist is one who sees only darkness in the tunnel.

An optimist is someone who sees light at the end of the tunnel.

A realist is one who sees that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlights of an oncoming train.

The driver is the one who sees three assholes on the rails.

In general, in the end we got out of this tunnel, having received a certain portion of adrenaline. There is also a restaurant next to the tunnel where you can have a bite to eat, as well as a souvenir shop called “Python House” (“? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ???? ? ? ”).

There is also a museum of bees and honey in Rhodes (it seems that in English it appears there as “Museum of bee”).

We didn’t have time to go to the museum itself, because it only worked, it seems, until 17.00, and we were a few minutes late, but we bought 2 packs of rather tasty Turkish delight at 1.50 each and a small jar of honey for 4.28.

RESTAURANT LA CASA


We dined that evening at a three-story restaurant with the complex name "LA CASA Restaurant Roof Garden". “La casa” translates as “house” (it. ), “restaurant” - and so it is clear, and “Roof Garden” - “roof garden” (eng. ). We were served by an Italian named Franco, so we communicated with him in his native language (although he is a very good astrologer in Greek). They also have a waitress there with a rather pleasant appearance, but what language she speaks remains a mystery to me. In Greek, she is neither boom-boom, nor in Italian. One can only hope that she knows English at least to some extent. We had dinner on the highest floor, which offers a beautiful view, which creates a cozy atmosphere.

We ordered a baked laurel, more popularly known as sea bass, and a veal steak. Everything is very delicious. As for drinks, my wife ordered dark beer FIX 0.33 l (by the way, this is the only place where we met exactly dark FIX - in all the rest it was light), and I - draft Mithos, although, of course, I agree, it would be more appropriate to order a bottle of what some good wine, especially since you could get a certain bonus, but more on that in the south.

Day 7, Saturday, 9.08. fourteen

MONOLITHOS FORTRESS

In the morning of that day, we went to the Monolithos fortress (??????? ? ? ) and we climbed onto it, fortunately it was not very high. By the way, the entrance there is free. There is a small church in the fortress - it is a ubiquitous phenomenon there. The fortress itself, however, is not very large: it took us about 30 minutes to climb it slowly. But the views from there open well, very worthy of the camera.

MUSEUM OF FOLK ART (???? ? ? ? ??? ? ? ? ???? ? ? )

On the way back, we again passed through Xian, where it took us some time to part with the oncoming tour buses, and about half an hour after that we came across a museum of folk art, and a free one, where we decided to go. The museum is quite small, there are objects of not very ancient life (somewhere in the 18th - 19th centuries): clothes, musical instruments, plows, carpentry tools, watch-scales, pots-plates, glasses, coins, oil lamps and even small - primitive pistol. There was also a restaurant next to the museum, and an observation deck across the road from all this. There wasn't much parking space, but there were even fewer people willing to park.

FORTRESS IN KRITINYA

Not satisfied with the "morning" fortress, we decided to visit another one - a larger footage, which is located in the city of Kritinia (????? ? ? ? - as you can see, the emphasis is on the last "i").


We had to climb a staircase to this fortress, which has an interesting feature: on each step of this staircase, all kinds of Russian cities were written in chalk. Here are some names that we came across: Zheleznogorsk, Kazan, Tula, Serpukhov, Moscow, Lipetsk, Penza, Kostomuksha, etc. The entrance to the fortress is free, because if it were paid, then these fees would hardly be enough for a salary grandmother collecting them. But the fortress itself is quite interesting, as are the views of the sea from there. Some water is still in the sea next to the fortress of a very beautiful azure color.

LUNCH AT A RESTAURANT NEAR THE RUINS OF KAMIROS

We still didn’t have enough ruined fortresses that day, and we decided to visit the ruins of the ancient city of Kamiros (?????? ? ? ), but first we had lunch in a restaurant next to the exit to the ruins of the city (closer to the capital). There is a small cape with a sandy beach, a restaurant and free parking.

The customers of the restaurant are provided with sun loungers and umbrellas on the beach for free, but we decided not to use this “right”, that is, we simply did not go to the beach. The restaurant took a tuna salad (7) and a small mixed grilled seafood (28). Portions are large, designed for two, although this is not indicated anywhere, as, indeed, in all other Greek restaurants. Well, at least the ones we came across. The restaurant is probably designed for tourists who come to the ruins, since there are no more establishments and settlements nearby.

RUINS OF THE ANCIENT CITY OF KAMIROS

For the entrance to these ruins, you had to pay 4 from the nose, and the entrance is open from 8 to 20 hours. And this town turned out to be rather rather big (no, some Khimki or Mytishchi are just megacities in comparison with it, but for a tired tourist it is still too healthy). There are ruins of the temple of Athena, Fountain Square, as well as various residential buildings.

It will take 40-50 minutes to get around and see all this. So it’s better to come to this place fresh and only if you are a big fan of the ruins.

DINNER AT THE ARENA

In the evening, for dinner, we o5 went to the Arena bar, ordered a portion of barbecue and a chocolate soufflé with ice cream. My wife tried a frozen kiwi margarita and realized that the most delicious is still strawberry. I had to drink the light Pavlik, because the Maisel’s Weisse beer had already run out, and only Pavlik remained from the non-filter.

Day 8, Sunday, 10.08. fourteen

CITY OF ASKLIPIIO (with emphasis on the second "and")


Somewhere around 13 o'clock we reached the city of Asklipiio (???????? ? ? ), stopping along the way at several observation platforms. In the city itself, we visited small religious museums and a church. We also wanted to climb into the local fortress, but it turned out that the road to it turns into a rather long goat path, and we decided to spit on this activity.

CITY OF ARCHANGELOS

Then we stopped at the city of Arhangelos (???????? ? ? ), located on the side of a mountain, on top of which there is a castle. We wanted to get to this very castle, but we realized that we were at great risk of simply getting stuck on one of the streets, since in some places we even had to fold the mirrors on our compact car in order to crawl along some narrow street - just crawl, not drive. The angle of inclination of the roads there is about 45 °, so a small car may not have enough power to climb, and the usual one simply will not pass in size. It is only the locals who know where you can drive up in an ordinary car, but it is better for a tourist not to risk it. And if you go on foot, you will have to go uphill through the whole city, and it is by no means small in size.

MUSEUM OF LOCAL NATURE

It was our last day of owning an iron horse, so after visiting several viewing platforms and some small religious museums, we decided to go to the Butterfly Valley, and also visit the Museum of Local Nature located next to it, which displays local fauna, as well as various minerals. . The entrance to the museum is free. From the fauna there are all sorts of dragonflies, butterflies, all kinds of birds, as well as animals: ermine, wolf, badger, cunning muzzle, oblique, etc.

BUTTERFLY VALLEY

But the entrance to the Butterfly Valley was no longer a freebie, and we had to lay out a chirp for two. However, I must say, there is nothing interesting in this valley. Well, you see, for example, a tree covered with either moss or mold. So no, on closer inspection it turns out to be ...butterflies, densely stuck around a tree. This valley consists of two parts, and you have to go up almost all the time.


"Climbing" is quite tiring, but bringing pleasure, as an "anti-policeman" of use in the event of a meeting with a traffic cop. Therefore, we decided that the first part was more than enough for us and went back. Are the tickets missing? Yes, and heck with them. It’s better to lose only the loot than, in addition to it, the remnants of strength and good mood. So that's where we decided to end our road trip, hand over the trough and go to drink what? Correctly -

OUR FAVORITE FRANCISCANER

To a place called Luna Bar - the place where I copied the label of my favorite beer - we took a taxi somewhere for a chirp. Naturally, we previously drove there in the morning of the same day in a rented car to make sure that our favorite Beer (yes, Beer with a capital letter, and not some kind of analysis) is really there. Franz there cost 4.50 for 0.5 l and was very fresh. It's a pity, he was only light there, because we prefer his dark version.

But we also drink light with great taste.

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