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One Fateful Date

20 Feb 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Dale “Next Wednesday, after a hard day of work at a restaurant in San Jose, Bones and I bounce back into the Plough at seven p.m.. Dale is sitting at a table with Maggie and her child (a little girl, four years old) and two men. She comes to the b...

Greece - Around Athens - Palaio Faliro - Beaches: Mpati Beach.

3 Jul 2020 2 minute read 1 comment Publish7

Mpati Beach is a very nice, relatively long (about 800m), sandy beach. It is mainly visited by the locals from the village above this beach: Palaio Faliro (Παλαιό Φάληρο). During the week though it serves also many visitors, from other places around...

Greece - Around Athens - Agia Marina - Beaches: Akrotiri Lombardy.

27 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Publish7

'Akrotiri Lombardy' beach is a very cosy, sandy beach in the small village of Agia Marina, about 28 km. away from the city center of Athens (Syntagma square). This place is easy approachable as it is directly next to the main road, Sounio Avenue (Λ...

Greece - Around Athens – Vouliagmeni – Beaches: Ta Limanakia.

24 Jun 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Publish7

'Ta Limanaki' or 'The small ports' is actually not really one beach. It is more a cluster of small bays, on the rocks, that stretch from Vouliagmeni (Βουλιαγμένη) down to Varkiza (Βάρκιζα). The main reason why you will find a lot of people here is be...

Greece - Around Athens – Kavouri – Beaches: Megalo Kavouri Beach.

23 Jun 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Publish7

'Megalo Kavouri' is the Greek expression for 'Big Crab'. It is the 4th beach that you will find here in Kavouri (Vouliagmeni). It is actually not a 'single' beach but (more) a concatenation of small bays. These bays are easy accessible by car. Depen...

Why do I write about Greek beaches? Social Distancing!

22 Jun 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Publish7

With these posts I try to provide some kind of service for tourists that want to visit Greece. You know this year, with COVID-19, is a very strange year. Especially here in Greece. Greece is a country that runs mainly on tourism. Without tourists, b...

Greece - Around Athens – Voula – Beaches: Pikpa Beach.

21 Jun 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Publish7

Pikpa beach is the first beach you will find in Voula. It is a very nice, yet small, sandy beach. This place used to be an organised beach but due to (political) issues it got abandoned by the owners and so became public again. That's the way I like...

Greece - Around Athens – Vouliagmeni – Beaches: On the Rocks.

19 Jun 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Publish7

This beach is only for the real 'adventurous' people among us as it is not really a beach. I would rather call it a nice place to enter the sea and enjoy a refreshing bath as the waters are very 'bluish' and deep here. This place is rocky and is so...

Greece - Around Athens – Voula – Beaches: Galini Beach.

18 Jun 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Publish7

Galini Beach is also known by the locals as 'Dimarcheio Beach' as Dimarcheio is the Greek word for 'town hall' so this is the beach next to the town hall of Voula. It is the 5th and last beach that you will find here in Voula (coming from Athens cit...

Greece - Around Athens - Glyfada - Beaches: Star Beach.

16 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Publish7

The 3rd beach of Glyfada is a nice, relatively long (about 800m), sandy beach. During the weekends it can get quite crowded it here (even in 2020) as it is one of the first ‘nice’ beaches close to the city center of Athens. This beach is, by car, on...