2019 - Alonissos

Well another summer is nearly over for our 4th year on Alonissos. It has been busy some months, quiet-ish others but a great time all in all.  A brief summary of the year would be as follows:
Yet another funeral to attend in June so not a good start, then the dance festival followed by a wedding and a baptism in July

Pavlin, baby Konstantinos and Maria

Then a summer filled with days at the beach and eating and drinking far too much as usual. With another birthday at the end of August which was a mad, Mamma Mia themed do and we have a 70th party at the end of Sept. We need to come home now for a rest and to go on a major detox! So, bye bye Alonissos until next year when we'll do it all over again 😎😀

Leftos Gialos beach

Drinks with friends

Secluded bay on our boat trip

Just another quiet night out!

Bouganvilla

flowers of the old village

Bowie eyed cat

Dance festival

Our atmospheric platia in the Old Village

Konstantinos and proud Grandad, Kostas

Whew!

Old Village house

Kalamakia

Leftos Gialos

The biggest dog I have ever seen!

Zoe in her Doggles

2019 - Chios - Katarraktis

Well this our final destination on Chios and we are staying in a lovely little hotel in Katarraktis.  It has a pool and we have views over the sea.  Unfortunately it's rather cool so we are still in jeans!  On the up side we have found a taverna that serves bottles of Mastic at the end of the meal, although I'm not sure you are supposed to drink the whole thing (which Paul did the first time we went!!!). Unsurprisingly, on our next visit we were only given half a bottle 😍.

We went for a walk along the coast one day which got warmer as it went on. We found a lovely taverna on the beach and had the best prawn saganaki we have ever had. Decided to have a bit of a sprawl on the beach before walking back. This was some of the clearest water we had ever seen.

All in all we had a lovely time on this beautiful island and will definitely return one day. Hopefully there will be more tourists for them after the recent refugee crisis but it was nice having the place almost to ourselves!