Mount Olympus

Over breakfast we decided to stay a second night at Camping Sylvia and go for a hike on Mount Olympus. However, we needed to drive to get to the start of a walk. So we packed up, unhitched the bikes and bikerack from the van, left everything with the table and chairs on our pitch and drove up to the Mount Olympus Information Centre.

They advised us to drive up to the Old Holy Monastery of Saint Dionysios of Olympus, then walk about 5k up the E4 footpath and back.

It was a really nice walk, mainly thru cool, shady wooded areas. We went past the Enipeas Waterfall, continually catching glimpses of the mountains thru the trees. The walk ended at the Prionia Resturant which, despite being busy with coach parties (!), still had some vacant outside tables. Ignoring the sandwiches that we had brought with us, we had a lovely lunch of aubergine with garlic and feta, cheese and tomato bake, and fries. (We fried the sandwiches for tea later so nothing was wasted).

It was a steep climb to get up there but fairly quick to get down again. On the drive home we went via an "outdoors" shop that claimed to sell CampingGaz. It was shut :-(. However, when we asked in the small supermarket across the road, they had some (well, the Greek equivalent) so all was good.

We also called in at Lidl, and therefore ticked off another country on the Lidl app! We bought shorts for Sara and cushions for our camping chairs from the middle isle. Result!

We finished off a lovely day with a short walk along the beach.Read more