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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Monday’s Supermoon
Monday's Supermoon As many of us saw, last Monday's moon was a supermoon. The moon's orbit of the earth is on an elliptical path, meaning that every now and again it passes closer to the earth than usual, giving us a full moon that is bigger and brighter than normal. I have to be honest and say ... [ Read More ]