Blogs from Naxos, South Aegean, Greece, Europe - page 3

Geo: 37.11, 25.38 GÜN 12 PAZARTESİ: Naxos bize ilaç gibi geldi , insan hay huy arasında farketmiyor ama bayağı yoruluyor.. Sabah harika bir güne uyandık. Turhan erkenci, motorla limana kadar gidip biraz kahvaltılık almış .. Balkona sofrayı kurduk Bir güzel kahvaltı oldu,anlatamam.. Sonra Turhan hoca 'dan motorunu alıp limana gitmek sırası bana geldi. Liman bizim bulunduğumuz koyun hemen dibi... 3-4 dakika sonra limana varıyorsun.. Banka bulmam gerek … Bankamı buldum..motor olunca park sıkıntısı yok.. Paramı bozdum daha doğrusu büyük parayı küçük kupürler haline getirdim. Liman civarında başıboş dolaşırken, sahildeki cafeler "gel bir kahve iç"diye davetiye çıkardılar..ikiletmedim.. Bir tarafta masmavi denize dalarak, öte yanda bitmemiş tapınaklara bakarak kahvenin keyfine varıp düşünüyorum… Biz... read more

Well we arrived on Naxos today, and are enjoying having some time to relax and continue our beach bum lives. We're staying at a lovely family run establishment called Soula Hotel that is a few meters away from the beach. We've become good friends with one of our roommates Allira, who's from Melbourne but going to study in London. We also have a 4th roommate from London. An almost 50yr old woman who is quite the character. Waking up every morning at about 5-5:30am, banging around the room, walking around naked, talking to herself, playing games on her phone, turning on the main light...makes it hard to get back to sleep in the morning! On the day of our boat trip, she woke me up at 5 with her loudness and I couldn't get back to ... read more

July 8-10 We thoroughly enjoyed our 3 days on the island of Naxos. It was our first island stop in Greece and it was just what we were looking for. Our ferry left the port at 7:15 am and thankful it was pretty large so I didn't get seasick and was actually able to sleep for the first 3 hours or so. Then we made a stop to let people off in Paros and I woke up and we went upstairs and outside to be able to watch until we arrived in Naxos. There were some pretty great views and some that were very typically Greek with the white building and blue roofs, just what we were hoping for. We had forgotten to notify the hotel of our arrival time, but when we called from the ... read more

Saturday 28th May 2011 We went down to breakfast and had the same as yesterday. Back to the room and packing our bags again. We moved our stuff round to reception to leave until later, paid the bill and then headed off into Thira town. We wandered around and went into the Archaeological museum, entrance €3 each near to the cable car station and the place was not only pretty useless but uninviting and not up to much. We then headed back slowly and had a quick drink in Ladokola's on the way back. We arrived about 1.45 and our transport was due at 2.20 so we did a little surfing the net while waiting in the reception area. The guy at the hotel has been really hospitable, for example yesterday when we were using Wifi ... read more

Friday 24th September 2010 The wind had dropped during the night and the weather forecast was that the winds would abate even more during the day. As it was about a 3/4 run for most of the way to Naxos, the next island about 25 Nautical Miles (Nm) away, we left just after 7.30am, having breakfast as we sailed. Rags was given the helm, ok for a short time but with the wind steady he set the auto-helm making for a smoother trip. About 10Nm off Naxos a pod of dolphins, the first we have seen, joined us, jumping and bow-surfing around the boat. These dolphins were much smaller than the ones normally seen at home, the largest only about 1.5m long. The Naxos harbour was just as we remembered when we were here in 2002, ... read more