- Greece 2022: Retrospective
- Day 86: Athens Flight to the UK
- Day 85: Sifnos to Athens (Koropi)
- Day 84: Sifnos Troulaki Monastery and Kamares
- Day 83: Sifnos Sightseeing
- Day 82: Mum and Dad Arrive on Sifnos
- Day 81: Piraeus to Sifnos
- Day 80: Athens Airport Meet Up by Metro and More Piraeus
- Day 79: Exploring Athens Part 2: Hadrian’s Library, Roman Agora & Ancient Agora
- Day 78: Exploring Athens Part 1: Acropolis, Parthenon, Museum and Temple of Zeus
- Day 77 Agistri to Piraeus
- Day 76 Agistri Part 2 – Megalochori and Dragonera
- Day 75: Agistri – Chalikiada, Megalochori, Dragonera, Livadakia and Aponisos
- Day 74: Aegina Temple of Apollo, Ferry to Agistri
- Day 73: Exploring Aegina – Aegina Town
- Day 72: Exploring Aegina – Nectarios, Aphaia, Agia Marina, Ancient Olive Grove, Marathonas and Perdkia
- Day 71: Crete to Aegina
- Days 67-70: Last Few Days in Stalis
- Day 66: Day Trip to Agios Nikolaos and Elounda
- Day 65: Gym in Malia, Sunbathe in Stalis
- Days 63 & 64: Malia and back to Stalis
- Days 59-62: More Malia
- Day 58: Malia, Gym and Jogging
- Day 57: Stalis to Malia
- Days 52-56: Stalis Life
- Day 51: First Day in Stalis
- Day 50: Ios to Crete
- Days 48 & 49: Last Two Days on Ios
- Day 47: Southern Ios – Tris Ekklisies, Magganari, Kalamos and Chora
- Days 45 & 46: Exploring Northern Ios
- Day 44: Ios Mylopotas Relaxation
- Day 43: Amorgos to Ios
- Days 42: Kos to Amorgos
- Days 37-41: Kos Town Downtime
- Day 36: Kos Paradise Beach, Kefalos and Zia
- Days 34-35: More Kos Town Relaxation
- Day 33: Kos Lido Water Park
- Days 31-32: Kos Town
- Day 30: Kos Paradise Beach
- Day 29: Kos Town Hotel Move
- Day 27-28: Astypalea to Kos and Kos Town First Day
- Day 24-26: An Unexpected Extension on Astypalea
- Day 23: Astypalea Part 2 – Vatses, Kaminakia, Marmari, Steno, Schinonta and Chrisi Ammos
- Day 22: Exploring Astypalea: Tzanakia, Agios Konstantinos, Livadi and Chora
- Reflections on Paros
- Day 21: Paros to Astypalea
- Day 20: My Last Day on Paros
- Day 19: Exploring Paros by Quad Bike (ATV)
- Day 18: Paros Revisiting Aliki
- Day 17: Parikia Again
- Day 16: Chilling out in Parikia
- Day 15: Antiparos Again
- Day 14: Paros Parkikia Sightseeing and Beach
- Day 13: Antiparos e-bike Experience
- Day 12: Paros Golden Beach
- Day 11: Paros Krios, Marcello and Naoussa
- Day 10: Paros Aliki Beach
- Day 9: Paros Logaras and Punda Beaches
- Day 8: Visiting Antiparos
- Day 7: Travelling to Paros
- Day 6: Back to Kalamata
- Day 5: Elafonisos
- Day 4: Monemvasia
- Day 3: Climbing Mount Taygetus
- Day 2: Mystras
- Day 1: Manchester to Kalamata
- It’s Almost Time… Kalamata Here I Come!
- 2022: Another Greek Summer Beckons
Wednesday 6th July 2022
Enjoying the Best Bits Again
With just a few days remaining on Paros before I head to my next island (spoiler alert… it’s a new one!), I wanted to revisit some of my favourite places that I’d seen over the past 10 days. The beach at Piso Aliki was one of the nicest that Caroline and I found when exploring the island last week, so it was at the top of my list to visit again.
After the now-usual budget breakfast in my hotel room, I walked across to the bus station and took the 8:40 bus to Aliki. I skipped the small main beach and walked straight around to Piso Aliki instead, as it’s easily the nicer of the two. I’d brought my drone this time and, despite the gusty wind, managed to get it airborne and capture some decent video clips and photos of the area.
The beach was nice and quiet as it was still quite early in the morning. I laid out on the sand for a while, reading my Kindle and enjoying the peaceful atmosphere. When I got warm enough to need a cooling dip, I grabbed my goggles and had a swim, but didn’t go as far across the bay as I had done last week.
The beach started to get a little busy later on (mainly due to a large group of kids), so I packed up at about 11:30 and walked back to the main village, getting another drone shot of Piso Aliki beach on the way.
Droning On
I contemplated walking all the way around to Agios Nikolaos beach to use my drone again but managed to find a spot just west of Aliki beach that was close enough to fly over to Agios Nikolaos, though I’d only brought 2 of the 3 batteries and neither had retained their full charge so I only had about 5 mins of flight time left.
It was enough to get the drone airborne and take a few photos of the beach and a short video before I had to fly back and land again.
Lunch
After packing the drone away, I returned to the same café that Caroline and I had snacked at on our previous visit (Ya Soumitsou). Armed with my laptop, I sat down to catch up on work and had a beer and club sandwich as a slightly early lunch.
Back to Parikia
I took the 12:30 bus back to Parikia. It went via the airport so took a bit longer than it had to get here. Once we had arrived in the capital, I went straight to the supermarket to stock up on protein shakes (I bought 6 while I had the chance!) and a couple of bottles of water plus some more yoghurts. I decided to go back to the hotel for a few hours to do more work. Went to the gym for 6 pm, had a decent back/triceps workout, and left at about 7:15 pm.
A New Dinner Spot
Unsure of where I wanted to eat tonight, I walked to Filoxenia restaurant along the beach road but looked at the menu and didn’t fancy anything. I then backtracked to Daniele Italian which was closer to the hotel but also didn’t fancy anything (and it’s quite expensive) so went to Cuore Russo pizza restaurant instead. This turned out to be a great decision, as the food was excellent. I had a pizza (obviously) and 0.5ltr red wine plus the chocolate salami dessert. All very tasty.
