Khalkis to Karavos... Looks can be very deceiving

The 'Book' warned of the dreadful vision that greets you on arrival at Karavos. It does go on to say that it's a very nice, friendly place however...

The zinc smelter south of the harbour looks like a troubled space station on some far off planet in one of those old sci-fi movies. This photo above doesn't really cut it, trust me, it is the ultimate eyesore.

Then a couple of hundred meters from town is the abandoned coal power station... By now we were contemplating plan B.

As we neared the mole (Rock wall... not you ya mole!) it began to look acceptable, specially because we didn't really have a Plan B

We Med Moored. It was after 2:00pm and so siesta time. The place was utterly deserted, but once again a dozen tavernas along the quay, all with way too many tables sprawled across the promenade, all ready laid for dinner... Really quite eerie.

Wishful thinking on the taverna owner's part we thought as we made our way to a beach on the opposite side of town from the monstrosities.

We entered a building which, from the boat on approach, had looked abandoned and in need of a paint job.

We were headed for a beach further along, but to our amazement, the inside of this building was a very nicely furnished, well stocked beach bar/cafe' opening to a clean pebble beach, the water equaling the best we had seen anywhere.


Beach beds, thatched umbrellas and enough of the locals to give it all some life.

Now that the kids have done their introductory dive course, masks and snorkels are mandatory and in no time at all they were squealing inaudibly through the snorkels at the abundant sea life only meters off the beach.



Really not sure what they are doing here but at least you can see the water clarity. It's the only photo I have ok??

As we headed back to the boat at sunset, a smattering of human life began to emerge. By the time we'd got ourselves presentable to dine, it was difficult to find a table...

No idea where these people come from, the town just isn't big enough to accommodate them all and hey, aren't these guys supposed to be broke?