This week, I received such a lovely letter from Australia that I would like to share it with you. The letter says: Dear Mr. Van Weerde, I am writing to say how much I have enjoyed reading your book ‘Kythira, just a special island’. You brought these wonderful folk alive, with[…]
Our Wild Orchids Holiday in April this year was a great success. Botanist and orchid expert Alexander Kocyan showed our guests from Switzerland, the Netherlands and Estonia the way through fields and groves, searching for the island’s many species of wild orchids. The result was impressive: more than 35 species[…]
The Kythera Summer Edition 2023 has just been published!! This year’s title: Welcome to nature. Get a free copy at our office in Potamos or click on this link: KSE 2023.
In the former bank building in Potamos town square, there is a permanent and interesting exhibition about the world-famous Antikythera Mechanism. The Antikythera Mechanism is a unique artefact from the second century BC. It is the oldest known mechanical object with gears. It is actually an analog computer, designed to[…]
We proudly present two new activities for the 2023 season. Activities that seem to be so different at first sight but at the same time fit so well on beautiful and diverse Kythira. From April 3rd to 10th we organize our Kythira’s Wild Orchids Holiday. Together with an orchid specialist,[…]
This summer the ‘Agios Nikolaos’ is moored in Kapsali. The ship was built in 1947 at the famous Psarros wharf in Piraeus. It sailed for decades as a fishing boat all over the Mediterranean. Nowadays, there are only four of this special kind of ship left. Captain Dimitris Paraskevopoulos and[…]
The Kythira Summer Edition 2022 has just been published!! This year’s title: “Welcome to the sounds of silence”. It has a great article about our Kythira Trail Maintenance Week, written by Marianne Both, one of the participants in March 2022. Get a free copy at our office in Potamos click[…]
Due to the corona virus situation, the past two years were fairly quiet as far as bookings for our walking holidays were concerned. Fortunately however, the interest in hiking on Kythira has not disappeared. This is evident from the bookings we have already received for this season. Our first Kythira[…]
Recently, Terraineditions (www.terrainmaps.gr) published a new and detailed hiking map of Kythira (edition 346a / 1:25.000). On this map are 26 walking routes. Apart from the Kythera Trails’ routes, there are 7 walks from our walking guide ‘Kythira on foot’ and 5 favourite walks from islanders. From north to south,[…]
How great is this? One of our regular hiking guests works at Clarijs Covers in the Netherlands. During a walk, he talked enthusiastically about this traditional family business, founded in 1948. Starting out as a saddlery, over the years Claris focused on processing sail cloth and related products, like bicycle[…]