Pefkos Beaches

Central Beach

There are three beautiful sandy beaches in Pefkos, the longest being central beach. We were surprised by how warm the sea was in June, and enjoyed the swimming and paddling. Many rocks at the town end of the beach make paddling out to water deep enough to swim in rather difficult, but we soon found out that a little further down the beach there are far fewer rocks and the going is easy.

Philosophia Beach Restaurant

The Philosophia Beach Restaurant is up the steps from Central Beach. During one of our visits I made this short movie.

AG Thomas and Plakia Beaches

On the edge of town are the AG Thomas beach and, right next to it, Plakia beach. We got up before sunrise to take photos and shoot some video of the changing light on the boats and rocks. Well worth the effort, I think you'll agree, and a good excuse for a little siesta later in the day.

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A Medieval Moonlit Night in Lindos

One night in June 1400AD the grand master Jean Bonpar de Lastic arrived in Lindos with his wife, ostensibly to check the progress of maintenance work on the castle. But what he was more concerned about was protecting the island of Kastelorizo from the Egyptian fleet, and he was here to recruit!

On the evening of Sunday, 17 June 2012, the people of Lindos celebrated the knight's visit with street performances, live music, and free wine and ouzo. Most of the townsfolk seemed to be in costume, and a great time was had by all.

The taxi back to Pefkos cost us only €8.

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Pefkos to Lindos

Our last Sunday on the island of Rhodes (17th June 2012) and we didn't have our rental car any more, so we caught the local bus from Pefkos to Lindos. It takes less than 15 minutes.

Lindos Bay

During our previous visit we'd busied ourselves checking out the bars and shops in the narrow streets leading up to the Acropolis, as well as climbing up to the Acropolis itself, so we'd only seen the beaches from on high. They are a delight. The bay of Lindos is well sheltered, as you'll see in this video, and the views are fantastic.

Clean beaches, good food, happy people. What else could you ask for? Oh yeah, lashings of Mythos!

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Euclesia, South Rhodes

On the Road in Rhodes

En route to Asklipio we parked our little rental car in the square in Euclesia for a short break and to try to get our bearings. Genie spotted an interesting building and disappeared for a while with her camera while I smoked a cigarette and tried to figure out where we were. The road map didn't help so I walked around looking for road signs that might point us in the right direction. Then, growing impatient, I started to look for Genie.

I found her in an abandoned building, totally absorbed with her photography. No surprise there. I could see why she wanted to take these photos as it's a weird and wonderful place, but was also keen for us to carry on with our journey. I coaxed her back towards the car.

Euclesia, where's that?

I didn't know what to say about Euclesia. Writing these little articles about our travels in Rhodes in June 2012 I've been referring to the road map we bought in Pefkos. It didn't help in this case as Euclesia wasn't to be found on the map. In the end, both Genie and I searched on-line and nothing was to be found of any relevance. It was as if we'd gone off the map and found ourselves in some other dimension. Looking at the file names of these photos it's obvious that they were taken before the ones of Asklipio, so all I can say with any certainty is that Euclesia is somewhere inland on the road to Asklipio. If you know more, please let us know!

I wish I'd been more patient that day. Genie tells me that she was "just getting into it" when I interrupted her photography and that she could have spent another hour or more taking photos in this derelict building. I'm sorry about that.

If, like Genie, you're a keen photographer, you'll really want to check this place out. But you enter the building at your own risk!