Fourni The last days!

Well, that’s just about it! Our fantastic Greek Adventure is nearly over for 2011!!

We have spent our last few days relaxing and mentally preparing for our return!!

We hired a scooter for a day and headed along the spine of the island 16k to the working fishing village of Chrysomillia. A beautiful bay with several small fishing cottages right on the water, relatively poor but with a beautiful outlook. Only a few tourists here and only for the day like ourselves.  It's a Greek fishing village that hasn’t changed over the decades... amazing.  We had a wonderful meal on the waterfront, salad, calamari and fries. Nothing could be better. We checked out the other three or four other beautiful beaches along the island and that’s about all there is to Fourni. It’s only about 30k long and about 2k wide.

As we said earlier Fourni town has everything you need in the one place, a great beach, tavernas on the waterfront, a picturesque town square, other beaches including Kampi nearby and the most wonderful, friendly locals. A totally relaxing and fantastic place to spend your days and get into the Greek way of life!

We have had some great food here including one of their specialties, shrimps and spaghetti (they also do lobster and spaghetti) and some of the best souvlaki and charcoal cooked chicken we’ve eaten. We don’t want to go!!!!

So, five trips and some 32 islands later the Greek Odyssey is over for the short term. We are on our way to Athens for a couple of days where we will meet Don and Val Megget and have our first look at their campervan “Lefty”.


We hope you have enjoyed our blog and it has given you some insight into this amazing country and it’s generous, gentle people.


We love it and we will definately be back!


            Yasas!


            Watch this space for more adventures in 2012!

Fourni Island



 Arriving at port of Fourni (Kampos)

Fourni

Leaving Chios we decided it would be nice to find a perfect place and remain there for the last two weeks to unwind after such a hectic holiday haha.  It needed to have a domatia with a nice view, a beach and access to a supermaret and tavernas (we don’t ask for much).  We decided on the Island of Ikaria and took the five hour  ferry to the port of Agios Kirykos.  Arriving at 6pm we had a look around and although it was a pleasant enough port we thought we could do better.   We hired a car and took a 46k drive along the coastline and into the high mountains with striking sea views to the other side of the island and Evdilos, the islands second port.  No joy there either so onward to Kambos and other beaches north.  Nothing grabbed us so we decided to overnight in Evdilos, return to Agios Kirykos and catch the 7am ferry to Fourni Island (twenty minutes away).

What a great decision that turned out to be as we have come to the perfect place!!

Fourni is a small working fishing  village in a calm, secluded bay that has allowed itself to cater to tourists just enough without spoiling it’s charm.  Half the waterfront has the small fishing boats, the tavernas and cafes and the other half is dedicated to the sandy beach.
 

There is a narrow treelined  street heading inland containing supermarkets,  bakeries,  fruitshops and more tavernas.

 It ticks all our boxes and then some! 

 
We have a beautiful room with the brown balcony right above the beach and a view to die for.

We sleep with the sound of the waves lapping,  it’s unbelievable! 

Our view!!

It is still suprisingly quiet for this time of year (as we have found everywhere) and we are only paying 25 euros per night.  

Still no sign of the meltemi winds which normally blow at this time of year,  it is calm and hot.  The beach only gets about a dozen people per day and at night there are enough people around to make it interesting. We wonder if the trouble in Athens is keeping people away or the recession or have we just found quiet islands this year?  We have spent a couple of days reading and swimming so tomorrow we will hire a scooter and explore the island.