Serifos
Travel Blogs from Serifos, Greece
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3 Nights in Kythnos
21 Oct - After the storm during the night, he day dawns beautiful, fine and dead calm! Unfortunately its not forecast to last and while today is expected to be great, the next 2 days are going to bring more gale force winds, this time from the south. ...
Serifos and the end of the crusing life!
The island of Serifos is located on the western part of the island cluster, making it a vista of other Cyclades islands. Today was out last day on a Greek island and was unfortunately my least favorite island that we visited. But l still enjoyed my ...
Serifos
pop 1100 once rich in iron and copper mines Chora topped by ruins from 15th century Venetian Kastro Livadaki Beach where I lost ...
Serifos
... envied when you are on the back of a yacht drinking wine - even when you aren't!! We all had a good laugh about that! Serifos is an interesting island, there's not much near the marina - everythings on top of a 400m mountain. Tom & Marilyn decided ...
We are SO over this meltemi!
... to keep moving north and west to get away from the meltemi. Went to a large bay on the south side of Serifos and anchored off a magnificent golden beach. Abandoned copper mines stood out on the hillsides and possibly gave the water a beautiful turquoise ...
Just a quick update
Having trouble updating today. I wanted to add some more entries from earlier in the week but this dodgy Internet Cafe won't allow me to upload my typed up entries and my photos. It is also siesta time here so I'm just biding some time before the shops ...
Me, Myself and I on a Greek Island
... buy a phone card (asking in Greek). I was feeling a lot more confident with the basic Greek phrases after my first week in Greece. I then spent some time by myself relaxing on the Lividakia Beach, reading and relaxing in the sun. It was so nice. I found ...
Backpacking
Packed two backpacks with a few shirts and shorts each, bathers and beach towels and a camera bag and headed for the port of Livadi to catch the Agios Georgios ferry to Milos which took about 3 hours to arrive at. This was the first time I have travelled ...
Made it to Serifos
We made it to Serifos after a stop off ot Kythnos Port at about 11.30am. I got my first glimpse of white washed buildings. I instantly fell in love with the island scenery as we passed by on the ferry. Con and Nia collected us and our bags from the port ...
More beach going
After a nap (still getting used to siestas) we went to find a private beach called ??? but it had been built in. Michael wanted to get to it so we trekked through the side of the mountain trough scrub but were not successful and all I got for my ...
Made it to Greece
We landed in Athens totally exhausted but sop glad to get the Greece. It was funny, there was no security checks in Greece airport. Big signs everywhere saying "Customs, declare goods" but no one working the gates. SO we walked straight through and ...
Monastery of Taxiarchon, Mega Livadi & Island Tour
We drove around the whole island on Friday. We drove in the little orange car and I don't thnk we got out of 3rd gear and we spent most of the drive in 1st. The mountians are so steep here with shear drop offs and very narrow 2 way roads and no ...
First swim in the Aegean Sea
At about 3pm on day one on Serifos I experienced my first swim in the Again Sea, at a little beach called Avlomino. It was cold but I didn’t really notice due to the spectacular view of the port of Livadi. The water was clear and aqua and you could ...
Dinner by the Aegean Sea
In the evening on day one we walked back down to the Livadi Port and had dinner at a restaurant by the water’s edge and by this I mean on the beach with our feet able to touch the water, chair and table all at the water’s edge. We had ...
Kythnos
This is a 43 nautical mile jump into the Aegean, leaving Poros at 0700 while still dark we negotiate our way our through the east channel and with Catherine on the helm we set a course for Kythnos. Once again under grey skies and rain clouds we manage to ...
Arrived Serifos Marina
We arrived in the isalnd of Serifos in the Cyclades Islands in Greece after a long haul including night sailing and navigation of the Corinth Canal.The island has a beautiful old town at the top of a high peak overlooking the harbour and port. Nik and ...
Hot hot hot
... lovely mountain views, a nice stream, a massive canyon and stroll around the ski village at the top. Yes that’s right, Greece has mountains with snow! Wierd... We stayed at the marina at Diakofto, and then carried on toward Olympia the next day. ...
Monastery of Taxiarchon - longer visit
Went back to the Monastery of Taxiarchon to get a better look inside. WE once agin did the ritual of paying, lighting a candle, signing the cross. We got a much better look inside the church (were not allowed to take photos inside). It was amazingly ...
Psilio Amo Beach and Greek Food
... worked. He told us how much the island has changed and told us about some of the characters that used to live on Serifos. It was an entertaining breakfast. Thank goodness he could speak English so I was able to understand. We pottered around the house ...
A goat track
In the early morning the sun up at about 5.30am and after breakfast, we took a walk up a steep goat track behind the house in Ramos where you can overlook the whole Livadi Port and you can see the other islands of the Cyclades in the distance and ...
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