Olympic Riviera. Outdoor trips of a family of sloths. About the nearest district
The Vorobeichikovs on the Olympic Shores : ))
We were already in these parts a year earlier, as documented in the story "No fur coat - come on Meteors! : ))"
Home, family, work, study. . . There comes a time when you want to quit everything, indulge in laziness and lie like a star on the beach. Forget about work stress, about watch in the home kitchen, about taking out the brain with school lessons! You give silence, tranquility, relaxation, restoration of nerve cells!! ! In-oh-from, for this there are (well, there were, until recently) hotels on the warm sea coasts with the All-Inclusive service. Oh, how I like such reservations, especially when leaving with a children's gang, and in my case, these are restless heterosexual weather of 9 and 8 years old.
Once a year, and sometimes a couple, we allow (allowed) such luxuries. But, as a rule, not at the peak of the holiday season for a number of reasons: there are fewer resting bodies like us, it’s not so hot, and the price tag for this pleasure becomes quite acceptable.
So for the first autumn holidays in October 2019, we went to be lazy in the most divine places - at the foot of Mount Olympus - the Olympic Riviera. Bomo Platamon Cronwell Resort 5* in the village of Platamonas is a very suitable option for bed-free lounging on the beach, with trips to a meal, spa visits for a change, etc. Read more in review here.
Although we are a lazy family, we can’t lie on the beach for a long time. Yep, it's annoying : ) Now a change of picture and a stretching of the buttocks are urgently required. Well, what a fickle human nature, then lie, then not lie... ))
The settlements within walking distance were surveyed. Neo Pori is a completely extinct resort village already at that time. There is not a single living soul at all. You walk, you hear voices somewhere, but you don’t see people.
You can walk from the hotel along the coast:
Or through garden plots. By the way, they are not even 6 acres, 3, maximum 4. Someone breeds chickens, and someone has a lawn. Someone grows vegetables, and someone grows mushrooms.
Platamonas village will be more fun:
Do not believe it, already on the third day of reclining, drinking and eating, we made a forced march from the hotel to Platamonas Fortress. Not very far, 5 kilometers and a little uphill : ))
This is the way back. From the hill : )
We will not delve into the history of the ancient Platamonas fortress, everything is on the Internet. The fortress looks quite dignified, menacing and thorough.
The inside is neat and tidy, but not very interesting for mere mortals. Excavations are being carried out, or maybe not very much. No, well, there are signs that were here.
But the views from the Platamon Heights are of great value for loitering holiday-makers:
Children walk through the ruins are not carried away. Now, if they let me jump freely, then yes. And so - what. Don't go there, don't climb here : )). But the meeting with the turtle, the extraction of wild pomegranates and the search for walnuts that had already fallen from the trees pleased them.
Yes, yes, and a photo session for lovely ladies, of course ))
Boys don't do that sort of thing. They do not want to shine their face once again. You have to catch it so that in about twenty years you yourself will show the degree of earedness : )
The only thing we did not know at the time of that walk was that there was a tunnel at the foot of the fortress rock. You can reach it along an abandoned railway, in fact, for which this tunnel was once created. And we turned off it.
Or, on the contrary, go down the path from the fortress (to the right of the entrance). This was later told to us by our vacation colleagues at the hotel. In general, an omission. But we will keep in mind.
Just like a year earlier, I couldn't find anything digestible on the Internet in terms of car rental. In the village, in rental offices, the price tag was not at all pleasing.
By some miracle, in Platamonas we stumbled upon the only working travel agency, in Leptokarya a year ago, I remember, they could not be found. Strangely, no booklet with prices has been preserved, usually I don’t throw away such things, at least until writing reports. In general, we used her services and. . .
But more on that in next part : )
