Off the beaten track. Samos revisited – Greece

Potami Beach

If one manages to rouse oneself from the beaches and main towns of Samos Island a world of crumbling villages, deserted monasterys, hidden coves, mountain streams and verdant forests awaits.

Kokari Beach

Paleo Harbour – coffee shop with no roof

Sunset view from the island road

Remote beach overlooking Turkey

Village house ready and waiting from regentrification

Down on the beach – amazing what one comes across

Beach bumming

Village back lane

Little kitten

Secret beach

Flora

Beachscape. Does anyone think this looks like a mother nursing a baby?

View from a friends house

Fertile wine growing areas

Arid seascapes

My love for this island grows the longer I stay away from it

22 thoughts on “Off the beaten track. Samos revisited – Greece”

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blowingoffsteamandmore on July 1, 2013 at 2:20 pm said:

Absolutely stunning. I am Greek but have never been to Greece. It’s on my bucket list and I made my husband promise me that we would find a way to get there in this lifetime!

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elkemurphy on March 10, 2013 at 8:34 pm said:

Stunning photos of this Greek Island! Brings back good memories for me of Crete, the Greek Island I fell in love with many years ago and have visited often. I miss it so much! But right now, traveling is not in the future…
Thanks for stopping by my blog.

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leiflife on February 23, 2013 at 7:48 pm said:

Glorious photographs! Made me want to go there. Thanks for visiting and liking my blog post: Ode To A Benevolent Camelia.

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mrsmalliou on February 22, 2013 at 9:08 pm said:

Great photographs! I can’t wait to explore more of Greece…

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gustavop on January 10, 2013 at 12:57 pm said:

That´s the kind of pictures I wish I could take.
Congratulations for all your nice pictures.
Thank you for coming by my site.

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- skinnywench on January 10, 2013 at 10:23 pm said:
  
  thank you gustavop keep posting and i will be visiting
  
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cbholganza on November 28, 2012 at 11:35 pm said:

beautiful pics! am learning much from you.

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ioanna aggelidaki on November 18, 2012 at 9:57 am said:

Very beautiful shots! 🙂 🙂 🙂

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bruceczopek on September 9, 2012 at 3:43 pm said:

Great light! Seems so crisp. Thanks.

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abradbury413 on August 25, 2012 at 2:53 pm said:

I’m glad you enjoyed my post, A Visit to the Norman Bird Sanctuary.

Your photographs are beautiful and your stories hilarous! I don’t think I could ever get tired of looking at travel photos like these. You’ve traveled to so many beautiful and interesting places, do you have a favorite? I just graduated college and am hoping to make a trip to Australia or perhaps Germany soon.

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- skinnywench on August 26, 2012 at 5:33 am said:
  
  Thank you – my fav place so far has to be the philipinnes but I have a lot more places to got yet!
  
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bigsurkate on August 5, 2012 at 5:43 am said:

I fell in love with Santorini. Beautiful places throughout the region. Crete has a completely different feel.

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sophiamariamilan on July 28, 2012 at 6:14 pm said:

Thanks for this post 🙂 I’m a big fan of Greece and your shots just bring out the beauty of the place.

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jessicajorgensen on July 20, 2012 at 5:38 pm said:

I want to visit Greece someday. I am graduating college soon and when I have saved enough money that’s where I want to go. Do you have any travel tips?

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- skinnywench on July 21, 2012 at 1:39 am said:
  
  Greece is a bit of a hot spot at the the economy is shot and everything is either v expensive or cheap depending on where you end up. The islands are stunning and there are still places that are not full of tourists – the mainland is also stunning but I’ve only ever been to Athens. 🙂
  
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  - jessicajorgensen on July 21, 2012 at 1:41 am said:
    
    Did you have much trouble with the language?
merewoman on July 1, 2012 at 1:12 pm said:

Thank you for visiting my blog. 🙂

We had some wonderful holidays on Samos many years ago, and have lovely memories of the green island. Our favourite beach was Tsamadou, but it was sometimes very difficult to get there by bus, because many of the bus drivers refused to stop there because it was a naturist beach. We often had to buy our tickets – what an adventure that was, never knowing whether a particular bus driver sold them on the bus, or whether they had to be purchased from the bus ticket office – pretending that we were going further on the island, and then asking the driver to let us off at Tsamadou which they would begrudgingly do. And on the return journey often the bus would sweep past us in a cloud of dust, leaving us to walk to the nearest village. 🙂 Your “secret beach” photo looked quite familiar, I wonder if that is where we used to go?

And on our final day, when we went to the bus station (behind the church car park), it was no longer a bus station! The buses had been evicted due to non-payment of rent to the church, and nobody knew where they were! After traipsing around for about half an hour we found them tucked away down a small back road, and joined the jostle of locals, chickens and goats for our last journey to Tsamadou.

Lovely photos, and I look forward to reading more of your travels.

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- skinnywench on July 2, 2012 at 8:30 am said:
  
  That’s so funny and so like Samians – The SB is a place called micro Santini – I remember the nudist beach well and it still is in existence.
  
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Linda on May 2, 2012 at 2:19 pm said:

You have an eye for beauty.

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Sue Hipkiss on April 22, 2012 at 7:12 pm said:

Love it! Can’t wait to find that secret beach

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