Some of my personal impressions from 8 days in May 2010 in the lovely village of Pythagorio on Samos island in Greece.
Take your time for an approx. 20 minutes long experience.
Special thanks to my friend Jiannis Loulourgas!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Samos waves music!
The greek singer, guitar player and entertainer Dimos Kassapidis last year (2009) performed several songs on different beaches on Samos island. Here are some of the videoclips from Balos beach in the south and Mikró Seitáni beach in the northwest of the island :
Monday, May 3, 2010
Invitation to visit Samos island in 2010!
The season 2010 is starting, already some charter flights from the Netherlands came and the first charter flights from Germany are coming today to Samos!
Last year I asked my friend, the musician Dimos Kassapidis, to help me to record sort of a promotional videoclip for Samos island. Dimos is a singer who has been playing on Samos during the summer season for many years already and who knows the island and most of its landscapes, beaches and good taverns very well.
We went to almost empty Balos beach on a beautiful sunny and warm day in October and had lots of fun swimming and sunbathing and exploring some hidden coves. Later in the afternoon we did the recording for this clip.
Dimos is sending his invitation message in three languages to the internet world !
I do hope that you will like the videoclip with scenes from Balos beach, accompanied by the sound of the waves and the music of Dimos ...
Visit Dimos on his myspace site
More information and photos about Balos beach you can find here:
Monday, April 19, 2010
Special promotion for Samos as holiday destination
O.k., it looks like a lot of fun!
But, do young people of Samos think about what impression they leave on tourists who intend to come to Samos for a holiday, when they post videos like these on YouTube? Many people are now searching the internet for information on their vacation destinations, and when looking in YouTube or googling for "Samos", they might get this first hand information about the island! ;-)
Is this sort of abuse of nature and new roads (financed by the EU) mainly found in the Marathókampos area?
fireworks and shells for easter celebration 2007
Pasxa 2009 Marathokampos SAMOS ( GREECE )
MARATHOKAMPOS SAMOS PASXA 2010-THE CHAMPIONS-PROFHTHS HLIAS
5-MARATHOKAMPOS SAMOS ΠΡΟΦΗΤΗΣ ΗΛΙΑΣ ΠΑΣΧΑ 2010
ae86 samos
TOYOTA COROLLA AE86 DRFTING SAMOS!!!
But, do young people of Samos think about what impression they leave on tourists who intend to come to Samos for a holiday, when they post videos like these on YouTube? Many people are now searching the internet for information on their vacation destinations, and when looking in YouTube or googling for "Samos", they might get this first hand information about the island! ;-)
Is this sort of abuse of nature and new roads (financed by the EU) mainly found in the Marathókampos area?
fireworks and shells for easter celebration 2007
Pasxa 2009 Marathokampos SAMOS ( GREECE )
MARATHOKAMPOS SAMOS PASXA 2010-THE CHAMPIONS-PROFHTHS HLIAS
5-MARATHOKAMPOS SAMOS ΠΡΟΦΗΤΗΣ ΗΛΙΑΣ ΠΑΣΧΑ 2010
ae86 samos
TOYOTA COROLLA AE86 DRFTING SAMOS!!!
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Greece on the ITB 2010 in Berlin
The ITB in Berlin, this year lasting from March 10th to 14th, is the worlds largest tourism and travel trade show.
11.127 exhibitors from 187 countries all over the world in 25 halls and approx. 180.000 visitors during the 5 days.
Some photographic impressions of the stand of Greece in hall 2.2. on the ITB 2010 in Berlin, Germany.
11.127 exhibitors from 187 countries all over the world in 25 halls and approx. 180.000 visitors during the 5 days.
Some photographic impressions of the stand of Greece in hall 2.2. on the ITB 2010 in Berlin, Germany.
The stand of the prefectures of Lesbos and Chios, offering some nice red wine from Limnos.
Late Sunday afternoon, nobody anymore on the stand of Mykonos. Sunny islands inside the hall, while it is snowing heavily outside in Berlin!
If you wonder why there are no photos of the stand of the prefecture Samos-Ikaria-Fourni ......, well to my great disappointment I have to say that this year they didn't show up, they had no stand on the ITB. As I learned "...due to technical reasons". Let's hope that until next year those problems will be solved.
Nevertheless, most of the other greek exhibitors/prefectures from last year were there again with their stands. So, no need to worry! Though my impression was, that on the public days there were signifcant less visitors on the greek stand as compared to last year.
If you intend to come to Greece this year and you are the typical young and smart tourist (from this year on - according to new marketing strategy - you will be called "guest" instead), don't forget to take your Laptop to the beach then !
No more home computing, beach computing in Greece will become trendy;-)
No more home computing, beach computing in Greece will become trendy;-)
Interview with Pavlos Geroulanos, Minister of Culture and Tourism of Greece on the ITB 2010 Berlin by Reuters.
More photographic impressions from stands of other countries like Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia, Spain in other halls of the ITB 2010 in Berlin I will publish within the next weeks in a special set on flickr.
Some videos can be found in my video channel on YouTube:
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Stories of Ireon at night (part 2) / MyWorld
Part 2: the good and delicious food
Over the years I came to know a couple of taverns on Samos I really like to go to and spend some time there with friends. The musician Dimos first took me to this place in Ireon two or three years ago. Since then I like to go there again everytime I'm on Samos: the fish tavern "Captain Miltos"! Fresh grilled fish at its best!
And I especially like the sword fish fillet and the calamari, together with the rosé wine!
Imho it's not a spectacular tavern, rather a place at a dark corner which many tourists won't even take notice of when passing by.
This year I was lucky to be there twice, here are some of my photographic memories of the visits to this tavern:
"Our" swordfish fillets on the grill. "Lecker" as we germans say!
Well this here is our table, my "farewell to Samos table" on that evening on October 12th, filled with many delicious things.
Dimos ordered all of these via cellular phone when we were on our "race" from Balos beach to Ireon:
Swordfish fillet
Squid (Calamari, Kalamares)
Greek Salad (χωριάτικη σαλάτα)
Fried Eggplants (Melitzanes, Aubergines)
Rosé wine
Swordfish portion for two people (on that other visit):
After we had finished our meal, captain Miltos showed us what he fished out of the sea, e.g. a big tuna fish, weighing approx. 20 kg. And a swordfish.
Not so easy for him to hold up this big tuna fish for a while to allow me to take a good photo! (Maybe that's why he doesn't smile here anymore!)
Of course, Dimos wanted to act as a fisherman too, so here he poses in his Superman outfit ;-):
All good things come to an end, so they say ... it's time to say goodbye: The "Blue(s) Brothers" ;-), Captain Miltos together with Dimos.
I get the blues ;-) Bye till next year!
We enter the car and hurry back to Pythagorio. Dimos has only little time left to be in time for starting his music show in a hotel. And I walk slowly - and a bit tipsy I must confess - down the main street of Pythagorio and then up a side street to my studio to take a rest to get rid of some alcohol.
2 hours relaxing time and a warm shower before I will head down to the harbour. At 10:30 p.m. I will meet with Mike in the harbour in another nice place, Manolis' ouzeri called "Karafaki". For some special photographers conversation enhanced by greek "Mythos"! :-)
MyWorld Tuesday
Over the years I came to know a couple of taverns on Samos I really like to go to and spend some time there with friends. The musician Dimos first took me to this place in Ireon two or three years ago. Since then I like to go there again everytime I'm on Samos: the fish tavern "Captain Miltos"! Fresh grilled fish at its best!
And I especially like the sword fish fillet and the calamari, together with the rosé wine!
Imho it's not a spectacular tavern, rather a place at a dark corner which many tourists won't even take notice of when passing by.
This year I was lucky to be there twice, here are some of my photographic memories of the visits to this tavern:
"Our" swordfish fillets on the grill. "Lecker" as we germans say!
Well this here is our table, my "farewell to Samos table" on that evening on October 12th, filled with many delicious things.
Dimos ordered all of these via cellular phone when we were on our "race" from Balos beach to Ireon:
Swordfish fillet
Squid (Calamari, Kalamares)
Greek Salad (χωριάτικη σαλάτα)
Fried Eggplants (Melitzanes, Aubergines)
Rosé wine
Swordfish portion for two people (on that other visit):
After we had finished our meal, captain Miltos showed us what he fished out of the sea, e.g. a big tuna fish, weighing approx. 20 kg. And a swordfish.
Not so easy for him to hold up this big tuna fish for a while to allow me to take a good photo! (Maybe that's why he doesn't smile here anymore!)
Of course, Dimos wanted to act as a fisherman too, so here he poses in his Superman outfit ;-):
All good things come to an end, so they say ... it's time to say goodbye: The "Blue(s) Brothers" ;-), Captain Miltos together with Dimos.
I get the blues ;-) Bye till next year!
We enter the car and hurry back to Pythagorio. Dimos has only little time left to be in time for starting his music show in a hotel. And I walk slowly - and a bit tipsy I must confess - down the main street of Pythagorio and then up a side street to my studio to take a rest to get rid of some alcohol.
2 hours relaxing time and a warm shower before I will head down to the harbour. At 10:30 p.m. I will meet with Mike in the harbour in another nice place, Manolis' ouzeri called "Karafaki". For some special photographers conversation enhanced by greek "Mythos"! :-)
MyWorld Tuesday
Friday, November 6, 2009
Stories of Ireon at night (part 1)
Part 1: the drinkable ingredients
Well, more bottles of samian wine ..... , Dryoussa, Psilés Korfés, Golden Samena, Samaina sec, Fokianos, ....
..... and some hard drinks. Don't forget to try the local Souma and Ouzo! ;-)
And more stories to be told ....
You ask, where is this place? The full story will be revealed in part 2 together with photos of the delicious food there! :-)
You wanna guess? Here is some hint!
Curious about the wines of Samos? If you are interested in these wines, either dry or sweet, red, rosé or white, and where you can get them in your country, please pay a visit to the website of the Union of Vinicultural Cooperatives of Samos (EOSS).
Of course, in many taverns, you will find that local wines are served too as house wines.
Here a short excursion to the history of samian wines can be found .
Well, more bottles of samian wine ..... , Dryoussa, Psilés Korfés, Golden Samena, Samaina sec, Fokianos, ....
..... and some hard drinks. Don't forget to try the local Souma and Ouzo! ;-)
And more stories to be told ....
You ask, where is this place? The full story will be revealed in part 2 together with photos of the delicious food there! :-)
You wanna guess? Here is some hint!
Curious about the wines of Samos? If you are interested in these wines, either dry or sweet, red, rosé or white, and where you can get them in your country, please pay a visit to the website of the Union of Vinicultural Cooperatives of Samos (EOSS).
Of course, in many taverns, you will find that local wines are served too as house wines.
Here a short excursion to the history of samian wines can be found .
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