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Places to visit => Places to visit => Topic started by: Hilary on November 14, 2017, 06:37:14 AM
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We were on a bus trip to Epirus, northern Greece a couple of weeks ago. Although we have been to the area four times in the past, once in January and three times in November we really must make the effort to go in May when there are flowers to be seen
The road to Patras is perfect, the Suspension bridge over the Gulf of Corinth impressive and the new Ionian Road from Antirio to Ioannina finished except for the rest stops. On the way back we had lunch in Metsovo and were back in Corinth in time for the football fans of the group to be able to watch a special football match.
Here are a few of the autumn photos I took. Not a flower in sight
Elati village in the Zagorachoria, where we stayed
The view from our balcony
At Monodendri
A stone wall, a vertical wild garden.
Autumn colours while waiting for the bus
Oak and Fir tree
Sun on Oak leaves
One of the typical bridges of the area
A Plane tree in Metsovo
Articles about Epirus can be found in three issues of
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN
October 2008 number 54
A VISIT TO EPIRUS, NORTHERN GREECE By Jorun Tharaldsen
October 2015 number 82
EPIRUS – MGS TRIP MAY 2015 By John Joynes
January 2016 number 83
EPIRUS, THE NORTH, THE MOUNTAINS By Caroline Davies
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Just looking at that bridge makes me feel giddy - did you go over it? :-[
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No, I preferred watching some of the people in the group making their way slowly and carefully over the bridge. There are many of these bridges in Epirus and I believe there is even a kind of bridge collecting tourism. Here you can read about a few of them
https://www.about-ioannina.gr/Zagori_en/the_bridges.htm
Our group seemed to be collecting villages as in
" I have been to Aristi but not to Papingo"
" Oh, I have been to Papingo and Aristi but not Tsepelovo"