The second week of my summer holidays I went to Pelion. Going there was my friend Angela's idea, who was willing to drive us. We took the late boat back to Athens slept for a couple of hours and early next morning my sister and I went to the train station to meet Charles (Angela's boyfriend) who had just flown in from London. We got the train to Lianokladi, piled into Angela's car (not the mini, fortunately, but the car they have given her from work) and drove all the way up to Volos and then Pelion.
I mentioned visiting Pelion earlier this year. But this time we saw much more.
As you understood, Pelion is not an island, it's a peninsula in central Greece, just next to Volos. It's a lovely green mountainous peninsula well know for it's picturesque mountain villages and beautiful beaches. I had only visited the villages high in the mountains during winter (and had on one memorable occasion got snowed in), so this was a great chance to see the talked about beaches for myself. Pelion is big and has many beaches. We only visited the northern part on the Aegean sea side, but the beaches where gorgeous. The one thing that certainly differentiates Pelion from the islands of the Cyclades are the trees. Pelion is so amazingly green!
We rented a house near Damouchari beach and spent most of our time walking to visit beaches, swimming and eating. Typical holidays in other words.
A nearly hidden beach near Damouchari
Damouchari beach
Fakistra beach
Horeuro beach
Mylopotamos beach
Papa Nero beach (check out how pasty Charles looks compared with my sister and Angela!)Pelion is beautiful, but like most of Greece crowded in August. Unfortunately you need a car to get around unless you plan on staying in just one place. Also it's rather family and couples orientated and there's only one camping that is packed. If we were a larger group of people and booked enough in advance to find a big cheap house to rent it would be fun to go again. To the southern part this time.
Coming next my final week.
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