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Oct 01, 2012
Started walking at 6am this morning with the moon on the other side of the mountain so stars light the sky. The valley was due east so an hour after we started dawn began to break right in front of us. Everything was blue then red then full autumn colour. Kiki talked about her philosophy @. We walked fast and reached ... Before 9. We waited for a local who rally drove us back to the station just in time for the Kiki's ...
Sep 30, 2012
A slow breakfast in preparation for what would turn out to be a intense day. Walking a loose rocky path cut into a slope just a few degrees off vertical again raised the bar scary terrain. Just around the corner was the start of the summit climb. At this point I still thought that climb meant steep walkable path. I was so wrong. Kiki told me to leave my pack as we passed a DANGER sign and we began to rock climb with ...
Sep 29, 2012
... thousands of autum leaves falling at once. The scenery would change all of a sudden from tall parallel trees to gray boulders in thickets. But always beautiful. Reached the turnoff to Anathema. I took the wrong turnoff. 15 minutes of the path getting fainter and fainter and the drop getting stepper and stepper I turned around and went back. The map helped a little but not till I read it thoroughly. This brought my sprits down but the rose with the climb. I ...
Sep 28, 2012
A rough night on a bright, loud, cramped train but got off just before dawn. Thankfully worked out the connecting train. Got to Litohoro at dawn, met a greek climber who helped me get a lift with some soldiers in the back of an army truck! Got into town and realised that the hostel was in the other direction. Taxied back. Back to town for supermarket lunch. Now trying to get as much advice about the climb as possible. ...
Mamma Mia !
Awww I can talk talk and talk about Paralia. Although it's not a place with many tourists attractions, there is something what makes you want to come back there again and again. Many beach bars ( the best one is Cocus), discos (the best one is Omilos with open dancefloor-amaaaaaaaazing !) and small Greek restaurants ...