So, this walk we went on, on Tuesday, where was it to? (Reaches for the maps…) It took us up Ag Paraskevi, then down an old river bed and broken calderimi under Ag Fanouris to the back of Yialos behind the Grace Hotel.
It started, as most of our walks do, from home, so if you want to follow it, start from the village square and walk towards Ilemonitisa church along the road that winds out of the square. Follow that all the way around until you can see the back of Yialos on your right. Stop and take a look and a photo.
Now carry on past the cats in the bins on your left and the hut on your right. (And the sheep on a balcony to your left. What? I know, welcome to Greece.)
Then… Well, now it gets tricky, but head to Lambos supermarket (you may need to ask directions but at the end of the road, keep going into the path and when you have to go right or left, go left, up, and then 2nd right, and then straight on). Pass the supermarket ‘Pandapoleon’ on your left and go up, then right and up to Ag Stavros, the church on your left. Then turn right past that, straight through the little square at the end of that path, then up a small lane on the left and follow that, and, apart from a couple of wiggles which are obvious, just keep going up until you start on an old track out of the village.
Stop beyond the bedpost-come-gate to take photos:
Say hello to the pony that may or may not be there and follow the sign to Xissos. If that’s not there, then keep straight on using the lower path; the one that heads up takes you up to the main road, and we are not doing main roads today. Now you stay on this path until you find a church to your left, Ag. Pareskevi. But, if you are here in early season, it’s worth looking down to the terracing you can see from this path. You can clearly see the difference between dry un-terraced land and terrace land; the clue is in the colour, even in April.
Okay, enough walking for today. You rest up there and admire the view, and I will be back avrio for path two. I mean part two.
