Samos Town
Travel Blogs from Samos Town, Greece
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Get out of my way, I kill you now.
... , a small town on the coast. We rented a little Chrysler Matis, and drove to our village of Kokkari. Samos is beautiful. One of the greenest islands in Greece. Especially this really in the season. The drive was somewhat crazy, we screamed a few times as ...
A Day at the Beach
... off out of Kusudasi towards the National Park. But first to get out of Kusudasi - the place goes on forever. The centre of town is quite nice - there's an old caravanserai now done up as a luxury hotel, the port area which has been nicely enhanced and ...
Its all Greek to me!
... Islands. Ah, how beautiful it was. And then we landed. I could almost stop there, seriously. All my fantasies about Athens and Greece were shattered at that moment. On the way to our hostel the taxi driver decided to tell us that the area our hostel was ...
Last Day On Samos
... for the bus greek style as it should have been there an hour before it actually turned up but managed to get into samos town again with no accomodation booked I was slightly worried as everywhere that we had seen on the internet had been really expensive ...
SAMOS CAPITAL
VATHI It is 5.00 pm and we decide to drive to Vathi or Samos. It is the capital of the island since 1832. We arrange to meet a friend of ours and in the meantime we have a stroll in the sea front and the shopping area. The old mansions bear ...
SAMOS - Our 8 Day Trip
... 8 DAYS IN SAMOS Our flight with the Aegean Airlines and it is early in the morning. Flying time 7.30 am and we landed at Samos airport at 8.10. A Chevrolet Matis is waiting for us at the airport, and the trip starts here. We want to see as much as ...
ZOODOCHO PIGI MONASTERY IN SAMOS
The Monastery of Zoodochos Pigi or Kotsika. This monastery took its name in rememberance of the vision of a monk from New Ephesus who around 1730 saw in his sleep an con of the Virgin Mary at the roots of a cedar tree (in the local dialect the cedar is ...
PSILI AMMOS BEACH - Thasos island Greece
PSILI AMMOS - (FINE SAND) It is one of the most popular beaches on Samos. Most of the beaches on the island are covered with pebbles, as sand is a rarity on the island. This beach is ideal for children and even a single pebble cannot be found here. ...
Santorini, Paros and Samos
... . It was an earthquake! On our second day, we took the local bus to Pythagoria, a very touristy town on the coast. The Samos Museum had a great collection of artifacts from the Herion, an ancient temple dedicated to Hera. The ...
Samos, Greece
... as it is just so 'un Greece like', in the sense that no where is anywhere like any other island we have been to in Greece. Since we arrived here (07th September) - on the wrong ferry (one day early) we have done all the exploring of the island ...
Samos
... a wall after supper and we went back to the hotel for a sleep. We had to get up to catch the 4am ferry to Samos. Again I was very surprised how well I slept considering we slept of the floor in the dining area. (Aren't you glad you decided ...
Samos stopover
A few hours were spent around the nice port harbour town of Vathi (Samos) having a few cafe drinks and some very ordinary local cuisine (tourist trap restaurant again) before taking a flight from Pythagorio (yes, home of Pythagoras) to Athens. ...
Turkey to Greece
Kusadasi to Samos and Greece May 16 DENNIS: We got on the ferry to Samos, a Greek island, about an hour and a half away. At customs in Kusadasi, at eight am, there was a man in the lineup with a beer in his hand. I'm not sure what nationality he was ...
Zoolander and pies
... Selah sleep most of the way, the rest of us catch what we can and I get none and we arrive at Samos at 4 am. Disembark, stow our luggage, wander around till I find a park bench. I lie down and fall promptly asleep while ...
Birding Day 2
... Isabelline wheatear Marsh harrier Cetti's warbler Bridge at Mili junction 5 x Roller Ireon – Bridge area at the edge of town Little bittern Little ringed plover Grey heron Great reed warbler Psili Amos (Track to Paleokastron) Long legged buzzard 2 x ...
Map pin for Samos
We spent Saturday night on Samos Island. Very quiet area. We were told that it has the lowest crime rate of all of Greece. Yes we felt safe! This will be a map pin ...
The start of Greece
After a 1:30 trip on a little ferry we land in Samos, one of the many Greel islands. We walk up a hill to hotel cleomenis, a 2 story hotel with a beautiful view of the mediterranean sea. We rented a car and drove around Somas visting the Potami Falls, ...
So close to Turkey you can see it
... exorbitant for a one day visit. If I had time to travel up to Ephesus I think I may have considered it. Since I chose to stay in Greece I picked the Island of Patmos to go to due to its' history and the fact that it was a sail of about 2 hours or just a ...
Boat Ride to Samos
... us off down by the port. We took a boat to Mykonos (2 hours) where we had lunch and then hopped another boat to Samos (5 hours). Thankfully we were able to snag a seat by the one power outlet we could find so we could watch movies on our lap ...
Island of Greeks, Ouzo and Goat Tracks
... . We set off the next day to explore the island, it was very picturesque with lots of mountains, pine trees and beautiful bays. Samos is a rather large Greek island and there is lots of villages there also. Well I can say that Darren's driving skills had ...
Ag. Zoni to Zoodoochou Pigis
Day 7, 13-May-10 Sunny, changed to light rain, ~27°C Walk from Ag. Zoni to Zoodoochou Pigis 3 x Eleonora's falcon Black eared wheatear Chaffinch, Blackbirds (in the Pine trees) ...
A day in Samos
... for half the cost. Even the wine was home made and a bargain at 1 euro for a small glass. We then drove back to Samos town and took a quick stroll down to the main square to take in the night life. The children were all out running, biking ...
Samos
... he didn't want one. So he was little sheepish when I can back with my 1.60 euro toasted cheese sandwich. When we got to Samos we organised our ferry ticket to Kusadasi for the next afternoon straight away so we could have sleep in the next day. When ...
Birding Day 1
... to get onto the road to Kamara. We stuck to the road on the return but managed to scramble down to head back through Vathy in a different location. Samos-Kamara-Paleokastron, late morning Sardinian warbler Eleonora’s falcon ...
a Day in Samos
... Psili Ammos, had a swim, had some lunch, snoozed for a couple of hours. Moved on to the North of the Island, passing Samos' second port of Karlovasi, a desolate and run-down place open to the elements, and stopped for another swim at Lemonaki beach before ...
Potami
Day 8, 14-May-10 Sunny, ~28°C Potami – Meg. Seitano Serin (pair) 2 x Raven Coal tit Woodchat shrike Spotted ...
When in Greece............
... to mythology, the goddess Hera being born there. Some of the best scientists and philosophers in ancient Greece originate from Samos including Pythagoras of Pythagora's theorem, Aristarchus the first person to conclude that the earth revolved around ...
Psili Amos
Day 5, 11-May-10 Sunny, breezy ~28°C Psili Amos Little owl 5 x Wood sandpiper Black winged stilt Ruddy Shelduck – approx. 20 with young 2 x Little egret Garganey (m) Fan tailed ...
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