Ampelos To Stemiris: Hiking The Hills Above Keri Lakes, Zakynthos Living on a Greek island and being part of a local hiking group can make finding new hikes a bit of a challenge. Our little walking group has pretty much covered the length and breadth of Zakynthos. Last year we hiked half the ... [ Read More ]
16km Sunday Hike Near Agalas, Zakynthos
Sunday Hike Near Agalas - Through My Lens We are in strange and unsettling times indeed. The whole world is taking a step back and life is standing still. All a little surreal! Our group walks have been cancelled until further notice and I don't expect us to walk together again this side of ... [ Read More ]
A Hike From Volimes To The Church In The Cave, Orthonies
A Hike From Volimes To Orthonies - Through My Lens Since becoming our unintentional hiking group leader, my husband has been coming up with some fantastic hikes. Living on an island and having hiked so much of it already it really is a difficult task to come up with new and interesting walks. ... [ 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 ]
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 ]
Intrepid Down! Intrepid Down!
Intrepid Down! Who says island life isn't exciting? No one?... Okay. Well, in case you did imagine that living on an island was quiet and unexciting, I'm going to share with you an image that may rock your world... Or it may not. I'm part of a small, but a fun group that we named The Intrepid ... [ Read More ]
True Blue
True Blue I've been sat here for I don't know how long trying to come up with a suitable title for this photo. Sometimes titles just come to mind in a flash and at others they just elude. Or is that just me? Last Sunday the Zakynthos Walking Group met up for the last walk of the 'winter'. It was ... [ 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 ]
Going, Going, Gone…
Going, Going, Gone... Could well be in reference to my sanity, but it's not. Childhood and all that in between stuff is one of those phases that it's not until you are older you realise just how quickly it passes by. I know that when you are in the midst of it it feels like it goes on forever ... [ 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 ]
Top Of The Island
Top Of The Island A couple of weeks ago the Zakynthos Walking Group did the 13km Cape Skinari coastal trail walk at the top of the island. Luckily it was one of the better weather days in January. It's been a funny old week in general, one where behind the scene website issues seem to have taken ... [ Read More ]
Newly Born Goat
So New, So Vulnerable Last Sunday, on our Sunday walk we were lucky enough to see this precious moment. A newly born goat still attached by the umbilical cord to its mum. We didn't actually witness the birth, but the baby goat couldn't have been long in this world. Mum was on her own in the ... [ 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 ]
White Christmas In Greece
White Christmas In Greece Not many people realise that Greece gets snow. I mean proper snow. Enough snow to warrant having ski resorts. Most people think sun, sea, sand and ouzo when thinking about holidaying in Greece. Forget that skiing in the Alps piffle, head for the Peloponnese! Despite ... [ 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 ]