Campsites,Greece #2of2

Métsovo is one of our favorite Greek towns. Our free camping site was in the main parking lot, or market place, in the center of town, along with several other campers, and a bunch of very large tourist busses. We were up with the sun the next morning. No way to sleep after a couple of the busses decided to warm their noisy diesel engines.

At Skárfia the campsite was located near the water, a long drive off the road, and was named Camping Venezuela. The owner, whose name is Dukakis, said the country of Venezuela is the place to make money in the winter, and Greece is the place to live from May to September, each summer.

We got off the main road near Pori, and found another camper parked near the beach, so we did too. The only problem was the noise until midnight (they thought it was music), from a restaurant a block away, then a heavy rain for an hour or two.

We told the campground owner in Kavala that his campground is the best we have visited in Greece. There are campgrounds this nice or nicer in northern Europe, but we have found none this pleasant, south of Switzerland. There was grass, and hedges, and the facilities were excellent.

There is a nice sandy beach at Agia Triada, and the facilities are not too bad. Had to retrace our drive of yesterday, back to Thessaloniki, then drove around that city some more.

Near Agios Nikolaos there are olive groves and miles of stone fences, or perhaps they are just long piles of stone, they don’t seem to divide or protect anything. A lot of tiny Greek churches all over the countryside, some look like they would be crowded with a congregation of maybe a dozen people.

The campsite at Kalívia was located high on a cliff over looking the water. As expected, there were a lot of Germans in RVs in this campsite. In nearby Árta there is an old bridge over the Arahthos, built in the 1600’s. There are several arches, but the Árta bridge is in bad shape and not in use.

The campsite near Vravróna was on a beach with a couple of campers and plenty of beach visitors during the daytime. We spent the night with one other camper, from East Berlin, and a small truck that was stuck on the beach. At 2:00 AM a noisy crowd with a large truck, pulled it out of the sand.