Kos 2023, Greece

May 2023

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- May 18, 2023, 6:01pm
- ☁️ 16 °C
- Altitude: 41 m
- Germany Schleswig-Holstein Wentorf bei Hamburg 53.501534, 10.23674953°30’6” N 10°14’12” E
The postcard is ready!
May 18, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Ha! The postcard is ready, tomorrow I need to pass by the copy shop to print out some of them. So vacation mode is on now 😜❤️
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- May 22, 2023, 10:40am
- ☁️ 23 °C
- Altitude: 20 m
- Germany Hamburg Tonndorf 53.581615, 10.10630553°34’54” N 10°6’23” E
Tea for the holidays
May 22, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Last time I forgot to take some tea with me - but not this time 😜.

So I went to my favorite tea trader to buy some. My favorite tea at the moment: milky oolong ❤️.

So tomorrow I will be out 🏝️
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- May 23, 2023, 6:00am
- ☁️ 14 °C
- Altitude: 36 m
- Germany Hamburg Alsterberg Hamburg Airport 53.628333, 10.00333353°37’42” N 10°0’12” E
Day 1
Hamburg Airport
May 23, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Bye bye rain ☔, bye bye clouds ☁️.
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- May 23, 2023, 12:58pm
- ⛅ 19 °C
- Altitude: 5 m
- Greece South Aegean Kos Mastichárion Ákra Mastichári 36.848333, 27.07536°50’54” N 27°4’30” E
Day 1
Arrived!
May 23, 2023 in Greece ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Ocean 🌊, sun ☀️, sand 🏝️.

And a really cool apartment, in the middle of the dunes, 50m from the beach and 800m from the beach bars. Near enough to stagger home 🤣 far enough to feel completely alone in the dunes.

I will show you some pictures later on - first I will drink my iced espresso ☕ and eat my sole fish 🐟.Read more
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- May 23, 2023, 4:15pm
- ☁️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 9 m
- Greece South Aegean Kos Mastichárion Vathýs Potamós 36.841599, 27.07200236°50’30” N 27°4’19” E
Day 1
Nancies castle is our home
May 23, 2023 in Greece ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
We live at Nancies place on the top floor 🏘️.

Nancy is wonderful and lives here with two of her four adult children. She lives downstairs and we stay on the upper floor with a view over the huge natural property 🌴🌲🌳 until the ocean 🌊.

The apartment is almost entirely made of wood inside with 2 large roof terraces. From the outside, the upper part is covered with natural stones. The garden is full of flowers 🌸🌺🌼 and birds 🐦🕊️🦅 - hard to believe it's only 200m to the sea 🌊.

We just went shopping with Nancy, now the fridge is full and we're looking forward to some cozy summer evenings 🌒🌙 - we definitely have 4 boxes 🎶🎵🎼 with us and ice cubes & ouzo in the freezer 😋.Read more
Traveler Sieht nach einem super tollen Platz aus 🥰
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Traveler ja voll!!! ❤️
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- May 24, 2023, 3:28pm
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 5 m
- Greece South Aegean Kos Mastichárion Vathýs Potamós 36.837667, 27.06033836°50’16” N 27°3’37” E
Day 2
What a lazy day 😊
May 24, 2023 in Greece ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Today we first slept for a really long time 🛌🛌🛌 and then ate all the delicious things we bought yesterday for brunch 😋.

After that we went down to swim 🏊 in the sea (it's much warmer than I thought) and sat around watching the waves 🌊🌊🌊.

Since we only explored one direction yesterday, we walked the other way along the coast today and stumbled across a nicely located restaurant. Glad we were hungry 🤣!

So now we're enjoying a shady ouzo on our roof terrace, watching the leaves swaying in the wind and listening to the birds. In the background you can hear the continuous surging of the waves.
This is soooooooo relaxing ❤️.Read more
Traveler So muss es sein!!!
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- May 24, 2023, 7:44pm
- ⛅ 20 °C
- Altitude: 11 m
- Greece South Aegean Kos Mastichárion Ákra Mastichári 36.85, 27.07536°51’0” N 27°4’30” E
Day 2
Sunset beer 🍻
May 24, 2023 in Greece ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
What a funny everything.... unfortunately the story is too long to tell 🤣🤣🤣 but involves some rusty bikes and a blond Udo Lindenberg...
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- May 25, 2023, 2:16pm
- ☀️ 22 °C
- Altitude: 8 m
- Greece South Aegean Kos Marmári Evriós Réma 36.857384, 27.1068536°51’27” N 27°6’25” E
Day 3
Tam Tam
May 25, 2023 in Greece ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
We landed here on one of our bike rides 🚲 along the coast direction Kos. At some point we decided to go for a drink and took a small road to the ocean following the sign "Tam Tam".

In short: too many people, too many tourists, too ready made, too perfect, too money optimized, too boring.Read more
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- May 25, 2023, 4:48pm
- ☀️ 22 °C
- Altitude: 9 m
- Greece South Aegean Kos Mastichárion Vathýs Potamós 36.841797, 27.07180236°50’30” N 27°4’18” E
Day 3
Living in an oasis
May 25, 2023 in Greece ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Did I already tell you that I live in an oasis? 🌴🐦🌺

Nancy has lived here since 1979 and when she bought this land it consisted of sand dunes ⛱️ and little undergrowth. Gradually, over many years, she planted trees 🌴🌲🌳 and later, when there was more shade, many shrubs 🪴🌿☘️ and flowers 🌸🌺🌼.

This has made this place an oasis in the dunes, a haven for countless birds 🐦🐣🦅🕊️.

I'm so lucky to live here with my binoculars 🥸 high up in the trees.Read more
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- May 26, 2023, 12:21pm
- ☀️ 22 °C
- Altitude: 12 m
- Greece South Aegean Kos Defterdar mosque 36.893333, 27.28833336°53’36” N 27°17’18” E
Day 4
Kos city
May 26, 2023 in Greece ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Today we took the bus 🚌 to Kos town.

This takes about 35 minutes ⌚ from Mastchari and costs 3.20 💵. The bus 🚍 does not run very often, 6 times a day on weekdays and 3 times on Sundays.

Kos town 🏟️ is not very big and the old town can be explored in no time. There is archaeological stuff 🏛️ to see everywhere, but nothing really stands out. Ferries ⛴️ go over from Kos to Bodrum/Turkey 🇹🇷 and all sorts of Greek islands 🏝️.

Actually, we had planned to take the bus back at 4:30 p.m., but since the city couldn't really conquer our rush, we took the bus back at 2:30 p.m. 🤪.

Our "private beach" 🏖️ around the corner, our oasis 🌴 at Nancies, our roof terraces 🏡 and the Light Blue 🐟🍷 in Mastichari on the beach 🌊 within walking distance cannot be beaten by far.Read more
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