Travelling in the past: Mission complete
Google search for “greek islands with no cars”, “..no tourists”, “..no noise”, etc, gave few results, I guess because people who are aware of such places don’ t wish to share the secret, which is perfectly logical since time and again we’ ve witnessed the invasion of tourists ruin hidden, beautiful and virgin places. So after a week’ s intense search we finally found the perfect destination.
- The port
Oinousses (Οινούσσες) is a collection of small greek islands near Chios island. Although the largest one, Aignoussa (Αιγνούσσα), is very much known, mainly as the birthplace of famous shipowners, people find it too desolated for a vacation destination, chosing to visit it with boats from Chios island for one day trips rather than staying there, which was obvious by the number of accommodations, which were about five or so.
- The Oinoussian Mermaid
For literally last-minute planners, we were very lucky finding convenient plane tickets to Chios and booking the last room available. Arriving there we were pleasantly surprised to see that everything was so much better than expected. We found the deserted oasis that we were looking for, enjoying beautiful beaches all by ourselves, taking walks around beautiful vacant houses, enjoying the difficulties of a place where people have no care at all for the visitors and regaining peace of mind after a series of stressful months.
Seeing pictures of the island from the 1900′ s at the local “Oinoussian Maritime Museum” we noticed that the island hasn’ t really changed throughout all these years. After recently thinking about time machines and travelling in the past, it occurred to me that I finally had a kind of back-in-time experience.
PICTURE DIARY
- “Pateronisso”. One can reach it by swimming. I actually did.
- “Agios Ioannis beach”. To reach it we had to follow the goats’ pathways and climb, since there is no road that can lead you there.
- “Demis”, the wall climbing dog
- In the back, Fra in his cave reading his book about zombies
- “Chatzali beach”. One more “private” beach.
- Walking to the beach through the pines we saw rabbits go by
- There were a lot of fig trees on the island
- “Kathisma” beach.
- There were also a lot of bees. Fra got stung by one
- We stayed at the beach till the sun went down
- Local people dancing..
- ..and falling in love
- “Chara”, the stray pekingese of the island
- The statue of the “Oinoussian mother” waving goodbye. The men of the island are mainly sailors.
- Fishing boats
- ΕΠΙΦΑΝΩΝ ΝΑΥΤΩΝ ΠΑΣΑ ΘΑΛΑΣΣΑ ΤΑΦΟΣ
- Having breakfast at the marine club
- This cat thought he was our pet, sneaking into the house and asking for food
- He also brought his miniature friend
- If you are to make some tortellini pasta in a pan (with chillie con carne sauce) be sure to be hungry enough to eat it
- Interesting luggage
