My Step Into Close Up Nature Photography Macro and close-up nature photography have interested me since getting into photography. When I'm out walking I'm always drawn to the finer details in nature. From beautiful butterflies, flitting from plant to plant to the tiny bugs congregated on ... [ Read More ]
Wildflowers On Zakynthos In February
Spring Comes Early On Zakynthos Back along I shared a photo post of our walk around Lagadakia in February. It was a very pretty walk with plenty of wildflowers en route. Having taken and shared more than enough photos from our walk in that post I thought the wildflowers of Zakynthos deserved a ... [ Read More ]
A Walk Through The Olive Groves – Lagadakia In February
A Walk Through The Olive Groves Lagadakia In February Not all the hikes we do on Zakynthos are difficult. There are plenty of shorter, less challenging routes for people who want to enjoy an easier walk. One such walk we did was around Lagadakia in February. The group met in the village of ... [ Read More ]
A Hike Up Skopos On Zakynthos
A Hike Up Skopos: Argassi To Kalamaki And A Very Steep Climb Through My Lens Zakynthos is an island and one of the problems of hiking on an island is that you soon run out of places to hike. Luckily our hiking group don't see it as a problem, we see it as a challenge. A challenge to find new ... [ Read More ]
Kampi To Keri Coastal Hike – Part Two
Kampi To Keri Coastal Hike Through My Lens Last week I shared part one of our Kampi to Keri Coastal hike. It was an amazing 25km hike that we had been toying with for a while, but had to be fit enough as a group before stepping up to this challenge. The other part of the challenge was ... [ Read More ]
Kampi To Keri 25km Coastal Hike, Zakynthos
Kampi To Keri 25km Coastal Hike Through My Lens Oh my! I think I may just have forgotten how to blog! It's been an age, well, three months (to be precise) since I wrote my last post and I've finally put the cr*p behind me that was dragging me down and draining my mojo. Negative people are ... [ Read More ]
The Carnival Weekend 19km Challenge
The Carnival Weekend Hiking Challenge Here in Greece the start of Lent is preceded by ten days of carnival festivities, starting with 'Smokey Thursday' and ending with a big carnival weekend. Clean Monday is the equivalent of Pancake day, but a little different and a big holiday. Not being ... [ Read More ]
14km Hike To The Cliffs At Kiliomenos
14km Hike To The Cliffs At Kiliomenos The beauty of Zakynthos just never seems to end. Last Sunday the Carry On Walking group extended a previous hike to the cliffs at Kiliomenos to 14km. Kiliomenos is an area of Zakynthos we have explored many times, but I think this was probably my favourite ... [ Read More ]
A Blustery Hike To The St Andreas Monastery Ruins, Zakynthos
A Blustery Hike To The Ruins Of St Andreas Monastery Ruins, Zakynthos Through My Lens Last Sundays hike was a very blustery one to find the ruins of the St Andreas monastery on Zakynthos. It is a hike we've done before, but we wanted to approach it from a different angle just to make it ... [ Read More ]
The Group Carry On Walking: Agalas to Keri Round Walk
The Group Carry On Walking Last week the Zakynthos Walking Group was we know it came to an end. After years of planning Sunday walks, Derek our half man, half mountain goat has had to step down and it was very sad indeed. The future of the walking group stood in the balance as there were big ... [ Read More ]
Hiking In The Peloponnese Part 3 & A Trip To Nafplio
Hiking In The Peloponnese The funniest thing happened... This post initially went out unfinished, due to scatterbrain here scheduling it and not having time to finish it. All sorted now though. This is the third and final part of my hiking in the Peloponnese posts... "Yay!" I hear you cry. "How ... [ Read More ]
Our Hiking Weekend In The Peloponnese Part 2
Hiking Weekend In The Peloponnese Last week I shared a post covering the first two days of our hiking weekend in the Peloponnese with Greece On Foot. This week I'm sharing part two. Yay! Last year I never got around to writing any subsequent posts to the first, so this year I'm determined to share ... [ Read More ]
A Weekend Of Hiking In The Peloponnese
A Weekend Of Hiking In The Peloponnese Last year a few of us from the Zakynthos Walking Group spent a weekend of hiking in the Peloponnese with Greece On Foot, staying in the quaint coastal village of Tyros. It was such a good weekend we decided it would be criminal not to do it again, so last ... [ Read More ]
Path Clearing Mission At Elies, Zakynthos
Path Clearing Mission At Elies Oh my! I never thought I'd get this post started let alone finished! Last Thursday a small group of us went on a path clearing mission at Elies, which is at the top end of Zakynthos. Despite my initial concern that I really didn't have the time to spare, it was just ... [ Read More ]
Walking The Cape Skinari Coastal Trail
Walking The Cape Skinari Coastal Trail Zakynthos measures roughly 40km by 20km at it's longest and widest points, to be honest, I think it's slightly over 40km long, but we won't split hairs. The drive from where we live up to Skinari takes fifty minutes (ish) depending on driving conditions and ... [ Read More ]
A Trek Up Marathia, Zakynthos
A Trek Up Marathia, Zakynthos If you ever head to Zakynthos for a holiday and prefer a more active getaway, I can highly recommend packing your walking boots. The island isn't just sun, sea and sand, it's quite rugged and wild too. Recently, the Zakynthos Walking Group took a trek up Marathia, it's ... [ Read More ]
Scaling The Heights Of Zakynthos On The Last Day Of The Year
Scaling The Heights Of Zakynthos On The Last Day Of The Year When Derek posted the New Years Eve Sunday Walk for the Zakynthos Walking Group my first thoughts were "No! How could he do this to us?". He'd only gone and chosen Skopos, from the Argassi side, which was hardly the nice gentle stroll I ... [ Read More ]
A Fun Hike At Orthonies, Zakynthos
A Fun Hike At Orthonies, Zakynthos A couple of years ago we did this same hike at Orthonies on Clean Monday. It was probably the best Clean Monday celebrations I can remember and the hike was so much fun. Probably due to the fact, there were people dressed in all their finery traipsing through the ... [ Read More ]
Our Walk From Argassi To Vrontonero, Zakynthos
Our Walk From Argassi To Vrontonero Last Sunday the Zakynthos Walking Group headed to Argassi, to walk from Argassi to Vrontonero. It's a walk that Derek, our walk leader described as a relatively easy walk of around 8km with a few steep inclines *hysterical laughter*, but well worth it for the ... [ Read More ]
Our Walk From Porto Roxa To Kampi And Back
Our Walk From Porto Roxa To Kampi And Back In the space of a few days, the weather has gone from being gloriously summerlike to positively wintery. Don't you hate it when it does that? Last Sunday the Zakynthos Walking Group headed to Porto Roxa for the start of a 9km Sunday walk from Porto Roxa to ... [ Read More ]
A Walk From Ano Volimes To Micro Nisi, Zakynthos
A Walk From Ano Volimes To Micro Nisi Last Sunday's walk with the Zakynthos Walking Group was a 9km hike from Ano Volimes to Micro Nisi. It wasn't a particularly difficult walk, but the rough terrain made it a bit hard underfoot. Sometimes I think that walking uphill is actually easier than ... [ Read More ]