Summary & Pictures Sporades-Sailing

Volos is an interesting base to sail to the Sporades :

- Good accessibility : more & more flights to Volos-Airport (eg. Ryanair),
for every flight there’s a bus from/to Volos-city (5 Euro pp one-way).

- For provissions there’s a wide choice of supermarkets.

- We had a very good experience with MixIt yachtcharter.

- Gulf of Volos and the Sporades are not overly tourist,
so it’s much calmer and more authentic than a lot of other destinations in Greece.


Concerning the crisis ;

Volos is a long way from Athens, so there aren’t any riots or demonstrations in this surroundings, nor did we notice any strikes.
Everywhere we came the people & personnel of taverna’s or shops where extremely friendly and helpfull.
We had the impression they we’re even more friendly than other years !

The general prices (shops, tavernas,...) have not increased, most of the prices in the taverna’s are relatively cheap for a top quality !
(we never payed more than ca.17 € p.p. for a meal with starters, main course, wine, water, etc.... and always we got a treat from the house as desert !)

So don’t let the crisis discourage you to spent a holiday in Greece,
you will have a wonderfull time and the Greek people will welcome you with open arms !

This will certainly not have been the last time we sailed in this area.

NB
Underneath you find some pictures from our sailing-trip.

Grtz,

Koen