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With only 70kms to go today\u2026it was a relaxed start to the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Muesli in mugs (which Sophia had nicked from the next door restaurant\u2026to allows us to make ourselves tea and coffee!)\u2026and we were off down this spectacular coast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Soon up to 200m and down again\u2026300m and down again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meandered through the fantastically fertile market garden that is Leonidio, and stopped for coffee, just near where we stayed three years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before the big climb! It is unusual to see the top of an ascent\u2026before you start. So it was a bit daunting! But actually not that big (just shy of 700m)\u2026and at a good gradient (for the most part!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Up and up\u2026..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026just lovely! Sorry\u2026a lot of these are repeat photos from 2022! But you cannot tire of them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Or of stopping at places like this! For a well-earned Frappe\u2026at half the price of most places!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before the hurtle down to Fokiano\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026glorious!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And then\u2026that extraordinary road! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We rode this last visit..and I wrote about it then. But it needs to be written about again: simply one of the silliest EU-funded projects I have ever come across. (That dickhead Nigel Farage would have a field day!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A full 22km of ultra-high-standard two-lane road\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026\u2026carved (literally) out of the cliff-face\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026..monstrous scar on virgin marine countryside\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But here is the thing: it connects Fokiano, with a permanent population of about ten, and only accessible by that narrow, rocky, winding road pictured above\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026to Kyparissi\u2026with a permanent population of about 200\u2026and which is famously only accessible by one of the most terrifying roads in all of Greece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new road winds up and down\u2026to over 300m\u2026with swept corners so big that even the biggest trucks do not need to cross the centre line\u2026but no such trucks would have a hope in hell of ever reaching either end of this road! And given the straight-line distance\u2026it would be quicker by boat\u2026which the local community have been using to travel between the villages for ever and a day!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2026we passed just two cars! Both tourists! It was completed nearly ten years ago\u2026and so few people use it that it STILL does not register on Google maps\u2026.!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a complete nonsense! Bureaucratic vandalism at its worst! I need to investigate! A job for tomorrow\u2026!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\u2026by the way\u2026is 100m after the road ends, barely three metres wide\u2026! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And\u2026by the way\u2026the road out the other end..climbs up here!! In the photo. Can you find it? It is impossibly steep\u2026narrow\u2026and terrifying! (See photos in due course!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So Kyparissi\u2026certainly the jewel on this coast\u2026remains so unspoilt. Regarded by many as the prettiest village in Greece. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Favourite of Lady Diana (she was here just before her ill-fated trip to Paris)\u2026and many luminaries\u2026.there is actually no glitz here at all. Prices are low. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is simply beautiful! And beautifully unspoilt! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And you can tell so many people about it without that feeling that you want to keep it to yourself\u2026.because – for  most – it is simply all-but-impossible to get to!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So worth it though!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will not be my last visit either!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The perfect family taverna for beers and food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wonderful day!! (\u2026and it is getting warmer!!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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