{"id":2114,"date":"2010-08-28T07:43:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T07:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2011-04-12T16:41:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T16:41:54","slug":"evening-excursion-to-alonissos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/?p=2114","title":{"rendered":"Evening Excursion to Alonissos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Advertising exhibition of paintings and ceramics by Ingrid Pintgen and opening night piano recital by David Lane<\/p><\/div>\n

Originally planned for Monday evening, the 23rd, an excursion on The Glass Bottom Boat “Sporades Queen I” to the neighbouring island of Alonissos was postponed until Thursday, the 26th, due to high winds.\u00a0 Of course, on Monday I was still staying in Damouhari on The Pelion.\u00a0 The reason for the excursion was to attend the opening night of an exhibition of paintings and ceramics by Ingrid Pintgen, a Dutch lady and piano recital by David Lane who is English, at The Alonissos (Pirate) Museum in Patitiri.\u00a0 The lovely Sophie who owns the accommodation where I am staying here on Skopelos, asked me if I would like to go with her and Stasi, a lady from Poland who has been living here for four years and works for Sophie.\u00a0 As the cost for the boat trip was only 10 Euro, I decided it would be a great opportunity to see something of Alonissos and also, it would make a change from the usual things one does when visiting the Greek Islands.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In perfect weather, we set off from Skopelos town, where cafes and restaurants, mulberry\u00a0and plane trees line the harbour.\u00a0\u00a0Departure 1830 hours, arriving at Patitiri just 35 minutes later.\u00a0 Not a particularly charming settlement and\u00a0I can only assume, that following the 1965 earthquake in which the island suffered heavy damage,\u00a0new housing was hastily constructed with very little thought being given to character\u00a0or image.\u00a0 The one exception being\u00a0The Alonissos (Pirate) Museum, founded\u00a0in 2000 by Kostas and Angela Mavrikis, it is the largest privately owned museum on any Greek island.\u00a0 A four-storey building displaying the cultural inheritance of the island, the museum also focuses on weapons and objects used in the early days by the pirates of the Aegean Sea.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

With a cup of wine in hand, there was\u00a0plenty\u00a0of time to look at all the museum exhibits and to view Ingrid’s exhibition of paintings and ceramics, before David’s piano recital began.\u00a0 With limited seating on the balcony where he played, many of us chose to sit out in the Cafe on the balcony above and look down on what was happening below, the only drawback to this being, when he played quieter pieces, it was a little difficult to hear.\u00a0 I kept company with Michael who lives on\u00a0Skopelos and a relative of his –\u00a0Amy, a\u00a0delightful 17 year old who travelled alone for the first time to spend two weeks on Skopelos.\u00a0 The magic of a red moon rising up from the Aegean Sea as we sat there on the balcony\u00a0– a perfect compliment to the evening.\u00a0 I promised to email\u00a0Amy my photographs of this as she had never seen anything like it before.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

With 30 minutes to spare before returning to Skopelos at 2230 hours, I joined Ingrid, David and his wife Penny and a few others for a beer at a harbour front cafe then returned to my same seat on the top deck of the boat, meeting up once again with Sophie and Stasi.\u00a0 With a warm wind blowing, our journey back to Skopelos allowed time for quiet reflection on what had been, a pleasant diversion.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In need of a good walk (walkers will understand how it becomes an addiction) yesterday I set off to find the old back road to Stafilos beach, some four kilometres from Skopelos town.\u00a0 A little overcast and a light breeze made for perfect walking conditions as a soldiered on along the dirt road with olive groves all around me and no distractions.\u00a0 Passed two small churches and strange looking sheep, I believe sheep herds on the island belong to a distinctive group called a “Skopelos Sheep” breed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The beach itself I would rate average.\u00a0\u00a0Typically infested with sunbeds and umbrellas costing 7 Euro for two persons, after a dip in the sea,\u00a0I\u00a0found a comfortable log to sit on\u00a0in the sun for half an hour, before a second dip and my return to\u00a0Skopelos town.\u00a0 Fortunately, for me it was more about the walk than finding a nice beach – if I want the beach, I have it directly across the road from my apartment and there is also the swimming pool here which I have still to check out.\u00a0 Maybe sometime later after\u00a0I have relocated to my Studio room.\u00a0 The weather today – well, it must have been made in heaven!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally planned for Monday evening, the 23rd, an excursion on The Glass Bottom Boat “Sporades Queen I” to the neighbouring island of Alonissos was postponed until Thursday, the 26th, due to high winds.\u00a0 Of course, on Monday I was still staying in Damouhari on The Pelion.\u00a0 The reason for the excursion was to attend the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2595,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}