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 The trip was originally made for four people, […]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 of 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 […]
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 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 […]
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.
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 […]
Even in October it is warm and sunny on Chios island, so still perfect weather for a sailing trip to our neighbor island Oinousses. Together with our organization all of us volunteers sailed to the beautiful place, that most of us hadn’t seen before. During the trip everybody could improve […]
In the beginning of June our sailing boat started into the summer season after a long winter break and we went on our first excursion. Together with the organization we went to the neighbor island Oinousses and spent one night at the port there. On the way there we got […]
May 1, the International Workers’ Day, fell on a Monday this year which is why we went to İzmir for the long weekend. To get there we just had to catch the ferry from Chios to Çeşme which takes around 40 minutes and then take a bus to İzmir. However, […]
A good reason to travel? A bank holiday of course. On February 27th 2017 the Greeks celebrated Clean Monday and we got the chance to go somewhere for three days. Well, we decided to pay Lesvos a visit, an island north of Chios. The idea and the planning was very […]
As we had exceptionally good weather this year in the end of November, we took the boat out for a final trip. We visited a group of islands not very far from Chios called Inousses. It took us around two hours to get there but we also had a little […]