Easter is one of the best times of the year to travel around Greece. As volunteers, we decided to spend our two weeks of holidays traveling through the Peloponnese. We started planning as soon as we came back from the Christmas vacation. The trip was originally made for four people, […]
Places Outside Chios Island
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After spending hours of hard work on the boat, taking the old stickers off, refreshing the paint of the hull and washing the sails, it was finally ready to be put in the sea again. We were all looking forward on sailing after the extended time it spent in the […]
Time flies by really quick. So the invitation for the Midterm-Training was a big surprise for all of us. The Midterm-Training is offered to all volunteers who do a project that is longer than 6 months by the National Agency of Greece, which basically means that the half of the […]
Every morning when we wake up we see the sun rising over Turkey. The turkish coast is only 30 km away from Chios island. So since Turkey is that close, we took the chance of the long weekend and booked a ferry for Saturday morning on the 26th of October. […]
As part of our European Solidarity Corps program we were invited to the On-Arrival Training from the national Agency of Greece in the beginning of October. Together with the other new volunteers from all the different projects around Greece we were accommodated in “The Ranch”. “The Ranch” is like the […]
From our hosting place on the east coast of Chios Island, you can see Turkey perfectly fine everyday, as there is only a distance of about 20 kilometers. The two countries are connected by ferries from Chios City to the Turkish coastal town Çeşme. It has been our dream for […]
As a group we decided we want to make use of our two weeks Easter holidays and therefore came up with the idea to travel around the Peloponnese. The planning process, which started weeks before we set off to Athens on the 20th of April, proved to be difficult and […]
As the 25th of March is a public holiday in Greece, we volunteers used the long weekend for a trip to Turkey. Our journey started with a ferry ride to Cesme, from where we went by bus to the airport in Izmir and further by plane to Istanbul. We spent […]
As we are approaching the middle of our project, we had the opportunity to go to the mid-term seminar from 1st until 5th December. The objectives of the seminar were of course to reflect and discuss about the different projects, but also to think about the future and possible ways […]
At the beginning of September we had the chance to participate in the On-Arrival-Training for EVS volunteers who recently started their project in Greece.
From 15th to 19th of April our team from Chios Island participated in a Evs mid-term evaluation seminar, held in Mpafi refuge on the mount Parnitha, just one hour away from the center of Athens, by the Hellenic National Agency. The attendees were thirty people currently working on their Evs […]
On the long weekend from 17th to 19th of February we volunteers had the opportunity to visit Turkey. First we went to Cesme by ferryboat and afterwards we took the bus to Izmir. It is an impressive city, located around a huge bay and surrounded by beautiful mountains. We got […]