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 The trip was originally made for four people, […]
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On sunday 6th of september 2020, we took the opportunity to discover a bit more about Chios island and went on a trip to Nea Moni. We arrived a bit early therefore leaving us the time to look around and stroll through the abandoned buildings that once were the servants quarters. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.