2 Quakes Rattle Greek Island No Major Damage Reported

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New houses have recently started to mushroom from the hillsides; bulldozers leave a red clay marker of their daily, inexorable progress. A splendid new highway swoops up to a mountain-top ski resort - which by September is populated only by a couple of hoary shepherds attending obstreperous goat Driving up the mountain roads, taxi service Volos greece it's impossible to miss the evidence of development.

'Sometimes I find things I didn't know I needed until I discover them on a shelf.' 'I bring my shopping list of essentials, but having not been to a store in over three months always leaves me wandering up and down every aisle to search for things I might've forgotten to write down,' she wrote.

The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), which revised down an initial reading of 5.7 magnitude, said the quake struck 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) below the surface in the gulf separating mainland Greece from the Peloponnese peninsula, 16 kilometres from the town of Itea.

that had roughly the same epicenter, some 58 kilometers (36 miles) northeast of the Greek capital. The stronger of the two, at magnitude 5.0, occurred at 10:06 p.m.
in southeastern Evia, according to the Athens Geodynamic Institute. It was preceded by a magnitude 4.8 quake at 6:32 a.m.

Even the Pelion won't stay safely in the past for ever 'But the landscape is wild and the roads are kind of scary, so the tourists haven't really taken to it. Still, if you're looking for a place that hasn't been "discovered", hurry up!





I didn't even know where the Pelion was. My friend pointed it out to me on the map: a long, sharp-toed boot of land jutting into the Aegean between Salonika and Athens, its heel almost touching the island taxi from Volos port to acropolis of Skiatho

I've never encountered roads more tortuous in their twists, or more lacking in barriers to protect the unwary driver from a drop into the void. But it's easy to get accustomed to dicing with death when you're on the road to heaven, and by the end of my visit my driving was almost nonchalan



It's easy, nevertheless, to be distracted from their beauty by your first encounter with a sullen cafekeeper, ready to charge you €30 for a salad and a glass of win The villages, each with a breathtaking view of cloud-capped peaks, are the secret glory of the Pelion.



I looked up at the handsome walls of the archontiko to its prettily arched casement windows. Unwillingly, I registered the broken shutters, the absence of guttering or pipes, taxi Volos greece the last remaining fragment of a graceful balcony that must once have stretched the length of the front facad

Up a second flight of shiny chestnut-wood stairs is the glory of these sturdy hilltop palaces: a suite of arched and richly decorated summer rooms, their windows with long wooden balconies looking out across the terracotta tiles of village roofs to a fairytale panorama of hills, woods, and faraway glimpses of islands, taxi in greece beyond blue se Visiting one of the archontiko at Vizitza, an hour's drive south from private taxi Volos greece, taxi online Volos greece I was enchanted by its combination of strict practicality and sheer beauty.
Animals were housed on the ground floor, Volos greece taxi fare to airport the warmth of their bodies helping to heat the small, cosy winter rooms of the family above. Often converted these days for taxi price Volos to airport use as hotels, these wonderful old stone houses were originally built by Greeks who made their fortunes in egypt and Volos guided tours returned to make a show of their success, back in the Pelion.



Sadly, the line had just shut down at the end of the summer when I arrived, and I never had the chance to peek from the train's windows at the mythic mountain cave of chiron the centaur, tutor to Hercules and Achille From here, the midway point, travellers could take a spectacular trip down to Volos on a narrow-gauge rail track built more than a century ago by the father of the surrealist painter Giorgio de chirico.

it was the terror of disappointment. Back then, part-owner of a pretty villa on a Corfu hilltop, I'd lived as if in another era, in a village untouched by tourist Twenty years had slipped away since my last visit to Greece.





And the region possesses some glorious churches, hidden away within its mountain stronghold The Pelion is only a few hours' drive from one of Greece's most astonishing treasures: the monasteries of the Meteora, perched on sheer spikes of rock that rise from a desolate plain. They're worth it for the sake of the beauties that lie hidden away in the churches and taxi service in greece monasteries of these remote villages.





Until, that is, I overheard a friend talking about the Pelion Peninsul All that I heard in the interim years convinced me that the old-fashioned Greece I'd known was for ever lost. Since then, I've never dared to return.



At twilight, we moved along to the next beach, Milopotamos, for sunset cocktails at a hillside bar overlooking the vast serenity of the sea at dusk. 'We Waiting the Night for Drinks', somebody had scribbled on the back of the menu. It might have been a complaint but in a setting like this, waiting felt like true luxur