{"id":2199,"date":"2010-09-06T11:17:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T11:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2011-04-12T16:37:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T16:37:27","slug":"farewell-skyros-yiasou-limni-on-evia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/?p=2199","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Skyros – Yiasou Limni on Evia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Limni - Evia (Euboea)<\/p><\/div>\n

Dining with Janet and Dimitris for the last time\u00a0on Saturday night\u00a0was a real treat.\u00a0 If you are thinking that fish would be in abundance and cheap here, I can tell you it is neither.\u00a0 However, a friend of Dimitris’ had given him a bag full of small freshly caught\u00a0fish which Janet had beheaded and cleaned, then floured and fried – what I call “food to die for” – and what we did not manage to finish, well,\u00a0the cats were waiting.\u00a0 Then, not long after we began eating, Dimitris received a telephone call from his friend to say\u00a0he had\u00a0more fish\u00a0to collect, which he did\u00a0and they smelt like pure sea!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Before taking the 1215 hours bus yesterday to the port of Linaria, Janet served our last Greek coffee together in the courtyard then walked with me to the bus stop and waited until I was on my way.\u00a0 The same ferry “Achilleas” which had brought me to Skyros a mere five days’ earlier would take me the one hour 40 minute ride to Kymi, Evia (Euboea)\u00a0and from there, a bus to Chalkida on the western side and another\u00a0north to Limni.\u00a0 When we arrived in Kymi it was raining, two Athens bound coaches were filling up with passengers and\u00a0I was told by the driver to get on the first one.\u00a0 There seemed to be much confusion but especially for me when a little way into the journey, I was told I must get off and wait to get on the other bus which would stop for me in Chalkida.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Evia (Euboea) is the second largest Greek island in population and area after Crete.\u00a0 During the last decade, they have suffered from the\u00a0extremes of severe snowstorms and devastating forest fires. \u00a0Unlike Northern Evia (Euboea) the Southern region is quite barren, uninteresting and unexciting, at least as much as I\u00a0saw of it yesterday.\u00a0 I had been to Chalkida many years’ ago and had remembered how close it is to the mainland.\u00a0 Since 411 BC there has been a bridge here across the Euripus Strait, where an extraordinary tide can change direction many times a day – a current like river in one direction that\u00a0then changes to the other and no one really understands why.\u00a0 Nowadays, there is also a modern suspension bridge further south. \u00a0I was in Chalkida for just 15 minutes before catching my fourth bus of the day, to Limni in\u00a0Northern Evia.\u00a0 I was told approximately two hours journey and\u00a0when I could see the sea, I would know we had arrived.\u00a0 The route\u00a0there travels inland through forested\u00a0mountains, interspersed with plateaus where cotton, grapes and vegetables grow.\u00a0 There are grasslands and freshly cut hay and\u00a0everywhere you look, you see beehives.\u00a0 In many places\u00a0in between\u00a0villages there are also large roadside\u00a0tavernas.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Limni is a beautiful village sitting on a mountain slope overlooking the sea.\u00a0 From Skyros I had emailed two places regarding a room and heard nothing, however, I had remembered the name “Eviali Apartments” www.eviali.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 In the town I asked for directions and eventually with those “Greek” directions I found my way here, where I have a nice apartment, 200 metres from the sea.\u00a0\u00a0By this time it was 2000 hours and I was hungry so\u00a0decided to go look for the super market – it was closed – ended up sitting at a\u00a0seaside taverna for a meal.\u00a0 Walking back later and my\u00a0mobile rang – it was Maddi (from Sydney) and Stathis at\u00a0Eviali Apartments inviting me to join them for dinner, the shame was I had already eaten.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Somewhere on Evia, the British composer – Sir John Tavener, spends a great deal of his time.\u00a0 His composition “Song for Athene” was performed at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I came here\u00a0hoping to spend a couple of days relaxing on the beach in sunshine\u00a0before I head back to Spetses – bad luck kid,\u00a0today it has been\u00a0raining!\u00a0 For now, the rain has stopped, however, there remains an overcast sky and it is the coolest day I have experienced for a very long time. \u00a0My fingers are crossed in the hope that it will\u00a0clear later in the day or at least by tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dining with Janet and Dimitris for the last time\u00a0on Saturday night\u00a0was a real treat.\u00a0 If you are thinking that fish would be in abundance and cheap here, I can tell you it is neither.\u00a0 However, a friend of Dimitris’ had given him a bag full of small freshly caught\u00a0fish which Janet had beheaded and cleaned, […]<\/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-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","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=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2591,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/2591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}