Steni Vala

Steni Vala

 

This little hamlet is popular with yachting people and is a nice place to have a long lazy lunch.  If you walk around the point on either side of the harbour, you'll find a couple of our favourite beaches....  Petros Beach and Glyfa Beach.  There's a map in Petros Cottage, and if you use it with our good beach guide, it's easy to find.  It's not a long journey (nothing on the island is too far!) and the drive there is very picturesque.  Click on these photos for a better look.

Sky Blue Pink

Walking around the village at sunset.

One thing we really like to do after a hot day on the beach is to take a walk around the village just as the sun is setting.  The colours are amazing.....  our family calls this colour sky-blue-pink, but it's probably more like a sky-blue-orange. These electricity poles are slightly eccentric, and I love the shapes they make against the evening sky, but what we really like is that the electricity in the village has recently had a big upgrade and is now much more reliable than when we first visited Alonissos. 

 

Once the sun has set, the night sky has more stars than I've ever seen anywhere, shame my little compact camera isn't good enough to record it to show you. We love spending time up on our balcony to sky-watch, both the sunset and night sky are spectacular from there.....

A sunset from our balcony.

 

Bourgainvillea

Colourful bourgainvillea in our lane in Chora....  one grows next door to Petros Cottage, the other is opposite.  Just gorgeous!