On the 17th of April, the students from the 5th grade from the school Panagia Erithiani visited the very first leprosy hospital in Greece, which is located around 20 minutes south of Vrontados. Once arrived, we were welcomed by our guide for the day and walked down a little path […]
Places On Chios Island
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Last Sunday, some of us volunteers decided to use the sunny weather and walk to a close village in the North of the island, Lagkada, which is located around 10 kilometres north of Vrontados. We started after breakfast and enjoyed the nice view. Walking to Lagkada from Vrontados, you walk […]
On the 22nd of February one of our volunteers accompanied the first and second graders of the 3rd Primary School of Vrontados. The Excursion started at 8:30 am, when the children got picked up from the school by a bus. They then drove to the city of Chios, where the […]
Last sunday, we combined exploring Chios Island and getting water by making an excursion to a spring in the north of the island.
Chios Island is well known for one thing: the mastic. But did you know that it actually can only be produced in the south of our Island? This and many other things can be discovered in the Mastic Museum near the village Pyrgi.
Last Saturday, we had the chance to explore our island a little further. Our first stop was the abandoned village Anavatos.
Last Saturday, the volunteers of Vrontados had the chance to visit the biggest village in the north-west part of the island: Volissos. But it was not only the village, the whole way to go there was a big adventure.
The first of May is an international bank holiday, and we volunteers had the chance to spend the whole day in the south-west of Chios Island. Together with our mentors we visited different villages and heard more about the history of Chios.
Let’s go to Chios City! For us volunteers in the south of Chios this is a normal activity on Saturdays, and we like to go there from time to time. But on one Saturday at the beginning of February 2018 we started a new experiment: Would it be possible for […]
How not to take advantage of an almost spring day in Chios island to visit and discover some beautiful places set in time like the medieval villages of Mesta and Pyrgi, located in the south of the island. Mesta has an architecture dating back to the Byzantine era as we […]
Pyrgi is the largest medieval village of Chios island, located at a 25-kilometre-distance from Chios town. In general it is a very impressive and beautiful place with an interesting background. When we had the change to visit the village, the buildings facades were the first things that caught our attention. […]
One sunny Saturday morning in July we, the volunteers from Katarraktis, decided to discover our area a little more and visit the beach of Agia Fotini. We walked there alongside the coast over stones and sand. Next to a wide selection of restaurants and taverns Agia Fotini also offers many […]