Patra

a few days before the ferrie to italy

After returning to the 'Pommie Ducati', we set off for Patra and found the ferry terminal with ease. We were going to purchase what is called "air" seats. They are seats the same as you find in an aeroplane; they recline to a limited degree so that you ...

... was about to begin. I paused amongst the five-story, white mortar, balconie'd buildings that steal the sun from Patra city. And I spectated. Now, the huge speakers on street-corners boomed better music: modern, progressive, mellow, rocking beats ...

This little town is just a transfer point, but I hung out for a while after my 15 hour ferry ride. The pic of the train is ...

... if I can crack a smile. Some of them eventually do, possibly because they think I'm retarded. It's funny. So I caught a train to Patra, the main port to get to Italy. I thought about spending some time here, and maybe heading down to Olympia. But I ...

We arrive in Patra and head off to Athens, there there is a man that keeps following us tellign us he has a cheap hotel, I finally take a flyier to get him to shut up, and it turns out there are double rooms (wich were actually verry nice) with shower and ...

... up our packs and heading back to the port, in time for the 12 o'clock from Bari to the Greek port town of Patra. Things were going our way once again. The last ferry experience from Spain to Morocco yielded a terribly unsettling B-grade horror vibe, ...

... we arrived the hotel looked very good. The room overlooks the car park but if you go to the pool and bar you can see the bridge at Patra and the deep blue sea between us and the Northern part of Greece. ( this is the view we want for our new home). In a ...

Arrived Patra mid-afternoon and eventually disembarked and found a map of the Peloponese before heading off down the west coast on a good road. Found that the map wasn't that accurate. Went past two good campsites and eventually found the one I was ...

... experience near my hotel was not intense and left me kind of absent-minded. This totally changed once I arrived in downtown Patra. Thousands of locals were awaiting or participating in a huge Easter procession around some of the main streets. I never was ...

... over the Gulf of Patra/Korinth up north. I wanted to visit the village of Nafpaktos in Etolia, a recommendation from a friend. The Patra bridge is Greece's symbos of the 21st century and it looks even more impressive once you are actually on it. However ...

... to do everything over the phone, but in the end I got a reservation for two nights at the Rio Casino and Hotel near Patra. Before reaching there, I discovered an excellent restaurant where I had a Greek salad. Xoriatiki. It was simply delicious and I was ...