Thursday, October 08, 2009

Cycling to sarakina


Over fifteen years had flown by since I last cycled up to Sarakina, a pretty village 11km north of Paleohora, and some 400m higher. That, and the need for some strenuous cardio-vascular exercise after an easy summer (and too many Amstels), was a good enough reason to ride there again in late September.



The first three kilometres on the Voutas road, through the Panorama 'estate' are steep, but from the col, at 200m, there's a view many visitors to Paleohora never see - an impressive steep-sided valley with rocky mountains on either side, and you would never imagine the sea is so close.

The rest of this article can be read on Bob's Blog at The Paleochora Site

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