Samos Town, Greece Travel Blogs

The first ferry!
Jul 12, 2008

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A Day at the Beach
Sep 20, 2007

... 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 a ...

Last Day On Samos
Sep 21, 2009 (2 photos)

... 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 ...

Santorini, Paros and Samos
May 22, 2009 (37 photos)

... ; 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 giant ...

8 DAYS IN SAMOS
Jul 24, 2009 (25 photos)

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 ...

SAMOS CAPITAL
Jul 24, 2009 (12 photos)

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 witness to the ...

PSILI AMMOS BEACH
Jul 30, 2009 (16 photos)

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. ...

ZOODOCHO PIGI MONASTERY
Jul 28, 2009 (10 photos)

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 ...

Samos, Greece
Sep 11, 2007 (5 photos)

... 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
Jul 9, 2007

... 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 not ...

Turkey to Greece
May 16, 2007 (1 photos)

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 ...

Map pin for Samos
Sep 17, 2006 (1 photos)

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 only

a Day in Samos
Sep 14, 2005

... , 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 heading up ...