When I arrived on Chalki one of the first things I did was to join the Chalki Visitors Facebook group. I had hoped to find out what I can see and do in my short 3 nights here. I’m so glad I did because one of the first posts I saw was promoting the day…
It is still pitch black when I disembark. Just a handful of us departed from the ferry and about a dozen boarded. It feels like the season will soon be drawing to an end. I thumbed the Atlantis apartments into Google maps and it was like Pigadia all over again! Up what felt like hundreds…
Today is our last day and night staying in Pefkos before heading back to Rhodes town in the morning. My lovely tour guide friend Julie had given me some information on Rhodes and today we are going to drive North and inland to Epta Piges (Seven Springs). When we arrive it is hard to identify…
After a hearty buffet breakfast we head off to Lindos. I had read that the village was beautiful and the Acropolis was spectacular. My first impressions weren’t great. It was heaving with tourists and looked a little grubby and run down. It may be a case of it being a bit of a shock to…
It is a very early start to catch the Blue star back to Rhodes. We reluctantly leave our little windmill before 5.00am to get our pre booked taxi down to the port. A small group of Brits are already there. A kind gentleman brings us over two plastic chairs and tells us to make ourselves…
I’m not going to lie – the ferries heading South towards Rhodes don’t half leave early in the morning. 7.40am from Nisyros was OK but our ferry to Symi today leaves at 5.50am. A bit of a killer! Anyway, it has to be the Blue Star Patmos because of my sister’s tendency to get seasick…
Today I decide to stay in Livadia whilst my compadres decide to hike up to one of the watchtowers on the hill above Livadia. My mission today is to try and find the little taverna that I visited with my partner 17 years ago. The owner was certainly a character and I was keen to…
The trusty Blue Star Patmos brings us into Tilos before 9am. From the deck I can already see that Livadia looks very different to how it was 17 years ago. At the time, work on the pier extension was in mid flow. We were surprised to see a man at the port holding a sign…
Breakfast was included at the Haritos and was served outside on a ground floor terrace. A set breakfast was brought to our table and although basic, was good enough to set us up for the day. Whilst we were eating breakfast we noticed a peculiar looking dog pacing up and down the street with its…
It is many years since I have been to Rhodes – probably 17 years during my last visit to Tilos and surrounding islands. To be honest, 17 years ago I was so eager to get off the island and onto the ferry, I didn’t really give Rhodes a chance. It could have been something to…
It has taken a long time for me to pick up from where I left off writing up about this trip. There are several reasons for that. I had travelled to Athens and then on to Patras with my daughter as we had just been accepted as volunteers – myself with FoodKind and my daughter…
The presence of the smugglers was even more apparent in the little factory, an old abandoned carpet manufacturing plant that seems to have been frozen in time. Lengths of carpet still hung suspended from the looms. It had the advantage of a rigged-up power supply ideal for charging phones, and it also had some semblance…
