30 seconds Samos

I have started a small series on YouTube called: "30 seconds Samos".
As examples, here are two clips:





Some more clips will follow, siga, siga!

Unter dem Titel "30 seconds Samos" habe ich eine kleine Reihe bei YouTube gestartet. Die Videoclips sind hier zu finden.
Es werden noch einige dazukommen, siga, siga!

The mega yacht "Al Mirqab" coming to Pythagorio

One of the largest private motor yachts in the world, the 133 meter long mega yacht "Al Mirqab" - owned by the emir of Qatar - came to Pythagorio for a short visit (approx. 4 hours) in the evening on Monday, June 14th, 2010.

I had heard about this event a day in advance. But when the yacht finally approached Pythagorio early in the evening (coming along all the south coast of Samos from Votsalakia), I just came out of the bathroom after having taken a shower. So, with the towel wrapped around me, I stood on the balcony and filmed the yacht "Al Mirqab" slowly gliding towards Pythagorio.
Then I decided to drive on top of the hill above Pythagorio to take some footage from there.



Most of the photos included in the video by kind permission of Sofoklis Arelis who went down to the harbour to take shots from a closer distance.
Music by Lothar Kosse, a german guitarist and singer.

Kalimera! Welcome to Pythagorio!

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!

Kalimera! Welcome to Pythagorio! from Peter Molz on Vimeo.

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 :

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:

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!!!

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.

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;-)

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: