55. Volos

55. Tag: Volos, who knows Volos already? However, the city on the "Pagasitic Gulf", the gateway to Pelion and the Sporades (for ferry traffic) and is home to the largest port in Greece.

For us, Volos was only a bad weather program, because the low-pressure area, from the effects of which we successfully escaped the day before yesterday, has now caught up with us. But the city with its 130,000 inhabitants surprised us positively. It was full of young people. But that was probably because today was graduation day at the universities. The architecture studies in Volos also seem to be very popular with foreign students.

Not only in the immediate vicinity of the harbor, the place made a well-groomed impression. The beach also looks very tidy, and we searched in vain for vacant shops in the city center.

According to the names of the cafes and restaurants, there are also strong French influences here.

In the end, the weather was better than expected, and we confirmed to each other that this was a successful "outing".

In the afternoon we drive on to Leptokarya, at the foot of Mount Olympus. There we meet Daniela again and spend a nice evening in a beach restaurant while it is pouring outside. The food was very good again, you (Daniela) just have to know where to go.

We cannot reach the parking space that Daniela showed us before dinner because of flooded streets, so we stay at a parking lot on the beach promenade.