Greek mainland
We departed very late from the camping in Refina today at 13:00. Away from Athens and up north. The landscape was stunningly beautiful today, very nice mountains and nice tracks cutting through it. The inland of Greece is marvellous.
Unfortunately we got stuck a lot in the traffic today because of police checkpoints, as it appeared to us. It looked like they were looking for someone. We drove most of the day and were surprised about the beauty of the Greek inland. It’s magnificent green and lush vegetation. We were wondering why only the greek island are so popular, because we’ve been on many islands of Greece but this was so much more beautiful in our opinion. The greek inland seems to be undiscovered by tourist, they all go to one of the islands. In the evening we were looking around for a hotel. We were in a small village which looked very creepy. There were a lot of empty houses and villas. It look kind of deserted to us. We drove around but didn’t see anything here, a place where we would be able to sleep. At a certain point we saw a house on the hill so we went to this place. I parked the car and walked around. It was a kind of hotel, at least it looked like it. Melissa and I walked in to the place and suddenly it felt silent.
“Yes, indeed, customers..” I answered him in my thoughts. There were some old people sitting there, chatting with each other, like they probably did every evening the last 20 years. The owner was friendly but didn’t understand any other language than greek.
We managed to make clear we wanted to stay for the night. He seemed to have a room available. We walked to the room which was reachable from outside, a kind of motel so to speak. When he opened the door we were looking at a very tidy room, it only smelled like it wasn’t used for a long time, it was pretty humid too. Alltogether it was clean, which was most important. We arranged a price and paid for the room directly, this way we could leave whenever we wanted.
There was no hot water, so that will be freezing cold shower tomorrow. We cooked ourselves a great dinner and gave the stray dog outside a bit too.