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When we booked our stay at Guesthouse Grandma Eugenia, in the pretty village of Vitsa, I felt such intimacy as if we were going to visit our grandmother Eugenia, the Zagori lady of Vitsa. Grandmother Evgenia would tell us stories, bake pies, carve the garden, show us old photos and accomodate us at...
A beautiful autumn evening, team alternatrips directed decisively towards the village Aristi, one of the most visited villages of Zagoria. We were expected by our hosts to Gamila Rocks, and since the sun was setting behind the mountains we hurried to take the last turn to the village and face the...
As an authos of Alternatrips.gr i have been offered with a lot of emotions! Travel, hostels, landscapes, people, tastes ... but my last expedition I will remember for a long time ... Returning from our lovely stay at the Pyrreion Guesthouse at Ano Pedina, we decided to try a new way, ie to cross...
As you reach to the threshold and you open the door, careful not to be enchanted, because everything is written and kneaded with love, rolled and dipped in the honey, with the caress of dawn and the star of life... Somewhat so begins the tale of our hosting at PiRRiON Sweet Hospitality from...
We arrived at Ano Pedina planning to visit the very special Monastery of the Annunciation, which at that day had a feast because of the celebration of 25 March. Another monastery on my list, I thought. I didn’t know the history lesson that were about to come next. When entering the small monastery...
You will fairly wonder who Orestis is, because even if you visit the Guesthouse you won’t be able to see him. You will certainly see Mrs. Eleni Pagratiou architect and vice consult of France, moving actively in the room or making flour pies or mpatsaries which you will taste at your breakfast or...
EASY ROUTES FOR EVERYONE Vradeto-Beloi One of the best routes because you are going to have the opportunity to admire the spectacular view of the deepest point of the Vikos Gorge, as soon as you arrive at Beloi. Distance: 2km Walking time: 1 hour Path: Z2 with good marking Period: Spring up to...
Zagorochoria is a unique phenomenon in Greece. 46 built stoned villages and 92 built stoned bridges built during 18-19th-century compose a complex of villages that are joined together with roads but also hiking mountain paths, torn in the middle by Vikos Gorge and are separated in East, Central and...
Once upon a time there was Paul, a man serious and capable, whose hands could convert silver to gold. He lived in the big city but he was always bored of it, although he had friends and acquaintances and loved ones but when it was feasible he abandoned them and went to the mountains. His favorite...
"Ioannina made of Glass" this is how M. Ganas characterizes them, a second home for me and many others, who have experienced the finest student years there. A city where anywhere you focus your gaze will wander in history and diversity, that she bequeathed by the three main community residents:...