Leaving Assos for Agrostili, the capital for one night before out flight home the next morning. The capital was virtually all destroyed in the 1953 earthquake where 100,00 island residents fled to live elsewhere. The rest stayed to rebuild their island. The capital is therefore very modern with very little of the huge buildings remaining. We head for the sea front in search of the turtles and were not disappointed and watched 4 feeding off the fisherman's scr...

I have to say driving over the middle of the island across to the west to Assos is just wonderful and looking down at the view point is just awesome! IT is just like you see online. The fortress at the top with a slim neck where most of the buildings of Assos are, leading back to the main island. This neck of land provides a sheltered bay lined with caves below the Venetian fortress. Accommodation - Vasilis Retreat 4 nights 288 euros - recently renovated these...

Driving back to Fiskardo for our boat trip was not a chore, so beautiful. First impressions were, 'oh' when we saw 'our' boat. Not one of the yachts or cruisers but an old looking wooden vessel! However, it was a super trip, really was. I have tried and tried to find out who it was but cannot and have forgotten. But if you ask down or check out on the boards for an Eco/Nature type trip then that's the one! Full boat with returning customers (must be good we tho...

Heading up into the hills from Agia Efimai gives splendid views of the small harbour village, the sea is a mill pond. We pull up along the way to take in and photograph the splendour. We stop off at a small village called Dafnoudi for breakfast & then head down to Fiskardo along the coast. We were going to stay here but glad that we chose Agia Effimia instead. Don't get me wrong, do visit but for us it was too pretentious. The small harbour front is lined wi...

Today we head south of Agia Efimia to Samos to visit some places on the map & where we had seen signs for earlier on in the week. There is such a lot to see on the islands we visit but rarely see others visiting these free place and sites. This was another example. Passing through Sami towards Anti-Sami in the middle of the peninsular are signs for monestres, here we followed the deserted roads up into the hills to find an ancient site. On the map it is 'M...