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Karfas is located 7 Km south of the town of Chios and is among the most well-known and loveliest beaches of Chios, with a fine sand suitable for beach games and relaxing sunbathing. Being a tourist center, Karfas has hotels, appartments, studios, restaurants, taverns offering fresh seafood as well as some bars. Lithi is a bay at the SW part of the island, with a fine sand suitable for beach games and relaxing sunbathing. The area has studios, restaurants and taverns offering fresh ...

how is was normal in the very first evening when you go to a new place is difficult to find the best place to eat or to have fun. we let our lugage at the hotel, we arrived about 6 pm and went to a walk on the beach to look for taverns... we chosed one with pizza and beer..... was not a very inspired location but for the first night was ok. we ordered a couple of beers and 2 pizzas and took them in our room. we drunk the beer and eat a slice of pizza and enjoyed the wedding from the hotel...

The most interesting island of Greece. Typical and traditional Island with a great nature and friendly people. The island of the mastic and her beautifull villages, like Pyrgi, Mesta, Olymbi and Vessa. I visit Chios now for seven years and have many friends on the island. Take a look at the pictures and i'm sure i will see you on Chios. But please don't come at the same time, because now you can still hear the silence.

Another day, another sleep in.  We had good intentions about getting out of bed early and going for a run – but it wasn’t to be.  When we did get out of bed we decided to jump straight on the scooter and head south, in search of the mastic villages and a black rock beach many people had told us all about.  The ride was quite a long one and through landscapes which were a lot greener than the areas we’d ridden through the day before.  Being Easter Sunday, we passed ...

I am riding my motorbike from London, UK to home, Adelaide, Australia. I will be heading south to Sicily, Italy and then making way across towards Turkey. Then head down through Iran, Pakistan and India. From there I will try to make it into South East Asia. Hope to put motorbike on a ship from Dili, East Timor to Darwin. Departure Date 4th August 2008.

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