{"id":9681,"date":"2013-04-04T17:49:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T16:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=9681"},"modified":"2021-06-24T09:56:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T08:56:20","slug":"bathed-in-greek-sunshine-kalogria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/bathed-in-greek-sunshine-kalogria\/","title":{"rendered":"Bathed in Greek Sunshine, Kalogria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave the motorhome is in Greece! For our first night&#8217;s acclimatisation to the warmth, we&#8217;ve nipped\u00a0south from the new port of Patras for 40 minutes into a car park by the sea (complete with no\u00a0camping sign and four other motorhomes, N38.15615 E21.36778). All along the sea-bound horizon are the outlines of\u00a0mountainous Greek islands and mainland. The sun&#8217;s bouncing from the sea and making it hard to see\u00a0the screen and type this out, it&#8217;s marvellous.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9686\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9686\" class=\"wp-image-9686\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00020.jpg\" alt=\"My feet in the sun!\" width=\"620\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00020.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00020-300x117.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My feet in the sun!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The ferry journey from Italy last night was as close to perfect as it gets. We ventured from our\u00a0little corner of the open car deck to wave goodbye to Italy from the passenger decks above us,\u00a0encountering the only slight hiccup, our magnetic cards weren&#8217;t encoded to allow us back in. A\u00a0company-issued red-tunic sporting fellow called Christopherosus (we think) at reception rather formally\u00a0but energetically ensured this was quickly sorted, accompanying us back to the car deck to test the\u00a0cards. When he heard we had a dog with us, he explained there is a sand-filled tray area on our deck\u00a0for him to do his business. We didn&#8217;t explain that while our dog has some cat-like tendencies\u00a0(licking his paws clean, being afraid of cats), using a litter tray wasn&#8217;t one of them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9687\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09908.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9687\" class=\"wp-image-9687\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09908.jpg\" alt=\"This little boat harried the ferry as it left the dock until a chap jumped from ferry to boat, and then it peeled off, weird.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09908.jpg 750w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09908-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This little boat harried the ferry as it left the dock until a chap jumped from ferry to boat, and then it peeled off, weird.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Parked in front of us on the deck were Barry, Frances and their two children, also camping on board in their caravan. After they&#8217;d eaten upstairs, Ju invited them round for a drink, so we got to quiz them about their 20 years of experience living in Greece. Among\u00a0their anecdotes were stories of folks standing counting wads of notes in the street outside cash\u00a0machines (they consider the country exceptionally safe), people who used to run their own little\u00a0shops recently having to turn back to agriculture or working in a supermarket (yep, the recession&#8217;s biting hard) and an\u00a0insight into the Greek mindset. Barry told me there is a wee Greek story which goes something like\u00a0this: a Greek man is jealous of his\u00a0neighbour&#8217;s\u00a0prize goat. One day a saint appears and offers the\u00a0man to fulfil a wish. The man, gleeful, asks that his neighbour&#8217;s goat die. It seems Greek folks\u00a0would rather see their neighbours fail than they themselves be successful.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9689\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09930.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9689\" class=\"wp-image-9689\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09930.jpg\" alt=\"The ferry's Greek flag. I read somewhere the colours are inherited from those of the Bayern (Bavarian) flag of southern Germany as those guys, along with almost every invading race ever, owned some part of Greece for a while.\" width=\"620\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09930.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09930-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09930-620x264.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ferry&#8217;s Greek flag. I read somewhere the colours are inherited from those of the Bayern (Bavarian) flag of southern Germany as those guys, along with almost every invading race ever, owned some part of Greece for a while.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Barry and family were on their way back home to Greece, they&#8217;ve decided to split their time between\u00a0the two countries for the time being, home-schooling the kids. They take 2 or 3 weeks to make the\u00a0journey each way, so get to see a huge chunk of Europe while they&#8217;re &#8216;commuting&#8217;. It was fascinating\u00a0to chat with them, and we now know how to pronounce &#8216;thankyou&#8217; in Greek!<\/p>\n<p>Camping on Board worked perfectly for us. It meant we could sleep in our own bed, didn&#8217;t have to put\u00a0Charlie in kennels or pay \u20ac50 for him to go in a cabin, we could eat our own grub (if not cook, as\u00a0using gas isn&#8217;t allowed and we have no electric hotplate) and once the morning came we could look out of the\u00a0window at an incredible sea-scape. Despite being woken at 5am by the ship docking at Igoumenitsa\u00a0and almost all the lorries piling off, and a patch of rolling sea which had Dave&#8217;s suspension\u00a0creaking like a sea organ, come 8am we were both well rested. To top it off, we indulged in a long\u00a0old hot power shower apiece and our\u00a0leisure\u00a0battery is charged to the max from the on-board power.\u00a0Obviously, we&#8217;d recommend Camping on Board to anyone from the experience we had &#8211; it&#8217;s available on\u00a0Italy-Greece routes from 1 April to 31 October.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9690\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09945.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9690\" class=\"wp-image-9690\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09945.jpg\" alt=\"Camping on Board: Awesome.\" width=\"620\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09945.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09945-300x117.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camping on Board: Awesome.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With an almost empty deck, Charlie got to play ball, being whistled over and stroked by a couple of\u00a0the sailors. One of the few remaining vehicles was a Greek-registered van, it&#8217;s back doors were left\u00a0open during the voyage and half the contents of boxes of small brown, quietly chattering birds were\u00a0stacked up along the wall. They&#8217;d each got water available and looked in good health, to me at\u00a0least. The deck smelled of bird, even though it was open to the fresh sea air.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9688\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09924.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9688\" class=\"wp-image-9688\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09924.jpg\" alt=\"As we hoofed the ball about Ju looked up to see half the passengers on the boat idly watching us from the boat-width windows above.\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09924.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09924-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09924-174x131.jpg 174w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09924-70x53.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">As we hoofed the ball about Ju looked up to see half the passengers on the boat idly watching us from the boat-width windows above.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Come 1pm (bang on time), the ferry docked, we unhooked ourselves from the power and drove off. No\u00a0formalities, straight out from the new Patras port and into a huge expanse of Greek concrete,\u00a0fortunately with fellow travellers to follow out the dock.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9691\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09949.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9691\" class=\"wp-image-9691\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09949.jpg\" alt=\"Greek boat at Patras. Wish us luck with the Greek alphabet folks.\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09949.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09949-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09949-174x131.jpg 174w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09949-70x53.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greek boat at Patras. Wish us luck with the Greek alphabet folks.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Prior to this we&#8217;d discovered while trying to work out which floating island was which that our European TomTom maps don&#8217;t include Greece. Ju, the navigator, is thus reduced back to the good old paper map, 1:700,000 and we soon sussed about 80% of the places on the signs aren&#8217;t on the map. Barry had suggested that as long as we head right, not towards Athens, we&#8217;d be good to go. After a wander along the coastal road eye-balling and smiling at one-handed on-the-phone helmet-less moped riders and the cost of diesel (\u20ac1:30 a litre at the cheapest place) we found the national road and cruised off. When I say &#8216;cruised off&#8217; it was a bit more white knuckled-off, as the single carriageway route had been extended into a four-lane road by everyone using the hard shoulder. When in Rome; we cruised the hard shoulder too, the experience of driving in Tunisia and Italy has prepared us reasonably well, we hope.<\/p>\n<p>Patras is at the north end of the Peloponnese, a peninsula which has been effectively an island since 1893 when the Corinth Canal chopped the land mass from the rest of mainland Greece, but no-one treats it as one. Although we&#8217;ve both been to the Greek Islands on package tours, this is our first time as\u00a0independent\u00a0tourists, and our first time on the mainland. What do we think of it so far? Smashing. Ju navigated us here past a moped-riding shepherd, a wayward tortoise in the road, a few dead dogs, a lego-load of low quality port town development and another parking spot up the coast. We initially thought we were in the right place until we climbed a high dune at one end of the beach to spot all the camper-vanners here, took a walk to reccy this spot, and shifted over for some company. The beach here isn&#8217;t snorkelable, but is quite beautiful and another wonder that we can stay here and enjoy it for free.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09960.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9693\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09960.jpg\" alt=\"DSC09960\" width=\"620\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09960.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09960-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9685\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00019.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00019\" width=\"620\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00019.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00019-300x117.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9684\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00018.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00018\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00018.jpg 750w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00018-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9683\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00017.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00017\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00017.jpg 750w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00017-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9682\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00010.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00010\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00010.jpg 750w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC00010-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09974.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9695\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09974.jpg\" alt=\"DSC09974\" width=\"620\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09974.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09974-300x117.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09987.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9696\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09987.jpg\" alt=\"DSC09987\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09987.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09987-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09987-174x131.jpg 174w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSC09987-70x53.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The map&#8217;s out now for some planning, but first time for another dog walk on the beach as the sun sets behind an unknown Greek hill in the distant sea (possibly Kefalonia).<\/p>\n<p>Cheers, Jay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave the motorhome is in Greece! For our first night&#8217;s acclimatisation to the warmth, we&#8217;ve nipped\u00a0south from the new port of Patras for 40 minutes into a car park by the sea (complete with no\u00a0camping sign and four other motorhomes, N38.15615 E21.36778). All along the sea-bound horizon are the outlines of\u00a0mountainous Greek islands and mainland. 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