The Ionian August 2011

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The art of road travel Dawn over Kastos

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Two boys on a boat Page 5

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Homer, herbs and health Page 4

The monastery of Rodia Page 10

Off the beaten track in the Ionian – dream or reality?

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Editorial

Escape!

It’s nearly August as I write this and it’s

been HOT, HOT, HOT in the Ionian. It takes a huge amount of effort to work in the middle of the day so many of us give in to the afternoon siesta culture to take a nap, swim or perhaps meet friends in a shady corner of a village as this month’s cover suggests.

Besides being hot, the Ionian in August can also get very crowded and so we have several suggestions on how to escape and to find your own peaceful corner in the shade.

Cathy King reveals the locations of her secret, secluded anchorages in Off the beaten track in the Ionian – dream or reality? Pssst, don’t tell anyone.

If you are on land, you can also escape the heat and the You can download The Ionian as a PDF document from crowds and perhaps even meditate a little. Where? Read, The our website: www.theionian.com.

Rodia Monastery by Yannis Kontopoulos to find out.

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Yet, another way is to do what Martin Stote did and writes ISSN 1792-4650. The Ionian is published monthly. about in Dawn over Kastos – wake up early to watch the Published on the last day before each month, approx. sun rise. It’s amazingly cool and quiet at that time of the day.

Publication is for informational purposes only. Although Perhaps you prefer to drive to get away from it all? Barbara The Ionian has made every effort to ensure the accuracy de Machula recounts her and her husband’s sometimes hairy of the information contained in this publication, the experiences of exploring the Ionian in an ancient Land Rover publisher cannot be held responsible for any errors or in The art of road travel. omissions it may contain. The opinions expressed by the And to begin, James Mills tells us about the joys of cruising contributors are not necessarily held by the publisher. life for children in Two boys in a boat and Vicky Iliopoulou acquaints us with the history and healing properties of some August Cover Photo: Ionian Village Scene; ©B. Molin. of the Greek herbs.

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News/Calendar

Race Calendar for Southern Ionian The Yacht Club of Lefkada/Nautical Omilo Lefkada (NOL) organizes races under IRC ratings with also a class for nonmeasured yachts, which use a PY (Portsmouth Yardstick) handicap. All yachts are welcome to participate in the races and the club welcomes new members.

July 31 - August 7 Ionian Rally Patras Yacht Club Races 1st race August 1 Patras- Kilini 2nd race August 3 Kilini- Vathi (Ithaca) 3rd race August 5 Vathi (Ithaca) – Vathi (Meganinsi) 4th race August 6 Triangle race in the Meganisi area July 31 welcome party Patras August 7 prize giving party Vathi (Meganisi) Ionian Regional Races - NOL September 23 - September 25 windward-leeward and course races - Lefkas area.

NOL Winter Series.

October 9 Lefkas-Preveza triangle race.

October 23 Lygia- Nikiana windward-leeward race.

November 5 Round the island race.

November 19 - 20 Lefkas- Meganisi. Meganisi-Lefkas races.

December 4 Lygia-Agios Nikolas race.

December 11 Lygia-Nikiana windward-leeward race.

For more information call Neil McRobert at: 693 271 6258.

Health and Beauty

Brush your hand over a pot of lemony basil, sniff a handful of

zesty mint, or just inhale the pungent aroma of a hillside of wild thyme, and it is easy to see how herbs have made such an impact on Greek religion, medicine, cookery, and folklore.

It is a love affair that dates back thousands of years. Ancient Greeks infused wine with honey and herbs during their Dionysian revels - Dionysius was often portrayed holding a stick of fennel. Homer described the herbs native to his country, and Odysseus outwitted Circe, a particularly unpleasant she-witch who could turn men into pigs, using the holy herb Moly. (The name may sound familiar from another context. "Holy Moly" was an exclamation of surprise used by the comic book superhero Captain Marvel.)

The doctors and physicians of Ancient Greece Vicky Iliopoulou treated their athletes and soldiers with herbs like hypericum, also known as St John’s wort, or chase-devil, said to be a cure for depression. They used plantago for insect bites, rashes and sores; arnica – part of the sunflower family - to heal bruising; and achillea to staunch the flow of blood from wounds. Balsam oil was used by Spartan soldiers for bruises and scratches, and even broken bones.

Hippophaes comes from the shrub known as sea-buckthorn, and is used in pharmaceutical products today. It is rich in vitamins and antioxidants. Its properties were discovered by the troops of Alexander the Great who noticed that when their horses grazed on it, their coats became beautifully shiny.

The warm, sun-kissed and well-drained hillsides of the Ionian islands provide the perfect environment for the herbs for which Greece and the wider Mediterranean are so well known today, and to which the characteristic flavours of Greek cooking owe so much.

Modern research also points to the Mediterranean diet, and its heavy reliance on olive oil, as being particularly healthy. Many of the herbs used in modern Greek cookery have traditional medicinal properties, and roots buried deep in mythology and folklore.

Oregano, which features widely in Greek cuisine, was known as the herb of happiness, and was used to make garlands for young engaged couples. Mint, used as a garnish for drinks, and delicious in salads and with yoghurt, is a traditional remedy for stomach upsets. Bay leaf, used in stocks soups and casseroles, and in bouquet garni with parsley and thyme, was used to treat sprains and bruises, and was the leaf woven into crowns of laurels for heroes and poets.

Parsley, which is full of iron, also used historically in garlands, is probably the best known herb in the world, and is used in a vast array of savoury foods. Thyme, known for its antiseptic and anti-bacterial qualities, is used in stuffings, roasts and casseroles.

Lemon balm is used in salads and stuffings. Many scholars think it is one of the plants which adorned the meadows around Calypso’s cave in The Odyssey. And there are records of people who drank it regularly who lived to be well over 100 years old.

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Vicky Iliopoulou and her husband Marios Fotiadis own a Herb Shop in Lefkada. Vicky has 20 years of experience in Aromatherapy and Aesthetics. She has also worked as a Spa Manager in Athens.

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Children’s Corner

Two boys on a boat James Mills

Hi, my name is James and I am going to tell you what it is

like to be a kid living on a boat. It is actually good fun. You can see all these different places and see different cultures and

wildlife. My brother and I have now been to nine different countries, which include Spain, France, Italy, Tunisia, Montenegro, Croatia, Greece, Turkey and England. As you can see that is a lot of countries.

I have also seen some amazing creatures, such as dolphins, sperm whales, turtles, sharks, sea slugs, seals and octopuses. That is a lot of animals. And we can move when we have bad neighbours.

But of course there are a few downsides. There is a very small amount of room on a boat, so we don’t have a lot of things. We have to maintain our friendships by e-mail. We have friends in Austria, England, Slovenia and Jamaica.

But on the bright side, my brother and I are home educated and don’t have to sit in a stuffy classroom, but instead we sit out in the sun and we probably know more than most kids our age and have experienced a lot more too. As soon as we have finished, we have a choice between sailing in my brother’s dinghy or going to play on the beach.

At the moment we are sailing around the Ionian, enjoying the tranquil sea and warm sun. I wouldn’t swap this life for anything.

James Mills (13) for the past eight years has been cruising with his family in Greece and Turkey on board their sailboat, “Coconut.”

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Ionian Life

The art of road travel Barbara de Machula Here in Greece, we meet our neighbours When we want to see our friends, we call and friends at the food counter, exchange to make an appointment. After a lot of the latest gossip and admire the newborn hassle with our busy diaries, we may year old Land Rover and discover new babies. The same thing happens on the finally find a blank spot three weeks on.

If roads. Sometimes we drive where there are road. We often see two cars in the middle we are lucky, this may include dinner. no roads at all. Sometimes we get stuck of the road, with the occupants exchanging In Holland you cannot visit your friends and a friendly farmer with a tractor pulls news and laughter, while the other traffic unexpectedly at dinner time.

It would be us out of a river bed or we free ourselves waits patiently for the chat to end. After a considered rude.

They are just as likely to by sheer hard work, while the local boys few minutes someone might sound their send you away from the door, saying, stand by and watch. Crazy foreigners! horn, but nobody bothers too much.

There is a road on the island of I love that. … at different places holes Lefkada that goes all the way up One day we drove through our the mountain in wild curves and appeared, which were so big that little village, and beside the road bends. In the heat of summer we there are several tavernas where the took this road, stealing figs from we thought we might get a men enjoy their coffees or ouzos. the trees at the roadside on the The Land Rover felt a bit awkward, subway train system as a bonus. way up. Finally the old Land she seemed to have a rumble in the Rover made it up the mountain, axle.

Suddenly we felt a jolt, and we where to our surprise we were welcomed saw one of our wheels overtake us. The by an old lady who had already set the “Come back later, we are having dinner wheel rolled all the way down the hill past table with wine, fresh water and some now.” I find this crazy. the tavernas where the old men looked on delicious home-made pastries.

Then there is the matter of queuing at the with puzzled faces, as first a wheel rolled She had seen us coming at the first bend, supermarket counter. In Holland we try to past, followed by a Land Rover with a and knew that in 20 minutes we would be be away from the counter as quickly as wheel missing. The wheel landed in front stranded at her little house, thirsty and possible. There is no way that someone hungry. We didn't speak Greek, but to our can be served before their turn. We watch of one of the tavernas, and we followed.

We picked the wheel up, threw it in the surprise we could talk with hand signals like hawks to see who is first, who is next, back and continued on our way. The Land and gesticulations and our conversation and when it is our turn, we hurry and Rover obviously needed some work, but about life lasted until sunset. rush. with three wheels she could still make it This is so different to the Dutch way.

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home. Nobody took much notice.

At some point, the town council decided that it was time to renew the sewerage system in our village. This was not an easy task, as most of the village houses have a cesspit. Engineers from the big cities were called in, and at different places holes appeared, which were so big that we thought we might get a subway train system as a bonus.

There seemed to be no rationale as to where the holes were being dug, and the village became like a complex maze.

Nobody knew which road would be open or closed the next day, and this lasted for at least two years, including the tourist season in summer. We joked that the maze was meant to keep the tourists in, so they could not escape and would have to spend all their money in the village.

Luckily we had a bank machine in the village, close to the restaurants and the shops. But to my great surprise even that disappeared. They construction. But it seems the money has run out – and so too has removed the bank machine. Now the roads are open (the holes the road. The highway ends in the middle of have been filled in) and to get some cash, we have to drive or nowhere. That really is a road to nowhere. walk all the way up the hill to the remaining bank machine at the Barbara de Machula is a writer and a painting other end of the village, as far away from where we want to teacher. For the past six years, she has been spend our money as possible. living with her husband, Peter on a farm near a At least our roads are improving. On the way to the first big monastery in Palairos. city from our village we pass a major highway which is under www.paintingholidaygreece.com

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Destination

Dawn over Kastos Martin Stote

Cornwall in Britain would have estate gates, and wire fences. agents reaching for the smelling salts and We sat at a table at one of the two he window of our bedroom in the harbourside tavernas. Around thirty flotilla the superlatives.

A man appeared from the shadows beside yachts had arrived since we landed on the old stone house faced east towards the the house, and went to a powder blue and island the day before.

Nothing stirred. mainland mountains. An intense dot of red white fishing boat in the inner harbour. He Some time before 6 am the lights around light throbbed on the horizon, like the arranged a few items on the boat, grasped the harbour flicked off in consort, pinpoint of heat you create when you hold the wooden oars, and sculled past the presumably on an automatic timer.

For a magnifying glass to the rays of the sun. It fibre-glass passenger cruiser that was twenty minutes we sat in reverential glowed fiercely, a harbinger of the moored in the entrance channel to dawn to come. A cockerel crowed Martin Stote and his wife Sue the inner harbour, nimbly giving once. It was less of a crow, more of a spent a night in an old stone one last thrust and shipping his stangulated shriek. Then a few birds, oars as he slid past it in the narrow startled into a false dawn chorus, piped house on Kastos as guests of channel. and twittered from the trees, before one of the villagers, but had to We didn't know if he was sculling falling eerily silent again. so as not to disturb his neighbours, We slipped down the stone steps and be up before dawn to catch a or to conserve fuel. It was just walked through the silent night towards lift on a power boat back to before 6 am. An outboard motor, the harbour half a mile below us. Even still concealed under its monk's the crickets, whose frenzied crescendo Lefkas. They watched the hood of a cover, sat mute on the filled the island's daylight hours, were transom. A few moments later harbour wake up... still. another man appeared. He made a far less subtle departure, revving Every now and then something large silence, enjoying having the dozing boats, up an outboard and motoring across the moved amongst the bushes either side of the reflections in the inky water, and the outer harbour, his figure silhouetted the track, followed moments later by the occasional cry of an owl all to ourselves. against the brightening sky. dull but reassuring clunk of a bell. The As dawn seeped over the horizon, a dark Then it was the turn of the shepherd. He island's goats and sheep were enjoying a wine-red stain that metamorphosed gently didn't look like a shepherd.

He was just a little nocturnal grazing. into a soft rose, the harbour stirred. A door Greek guy in jeans and short-sleeved, Soon we saw the crescent of street lights opened in the handsome old stone twoblack T-shirt. But he held a bundle of hay, that surrounded the harbour, surprisingly storey house that stood on the left of the and he was followed by twenty or so bright given its size. We picked our way waterfront, right on the thin shingle beach. sheep, their hooves clicking like knitting down past the slumbering houses around It was the sort of foursquare property needles along the stone quayside as they the waterfront, with their closed metal which, if transported to West Sussex or

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followed him into a field of about an acre beside our taverna, with olive trees dotted about it.

Next up, two octopus fishermen. The first was an old man with a baggy backside to his trousers, who appeared clutching a long pole, some twelve feet in length, with a mean little multi-pronged fork on the end. It looked like a giant's toasting fork. He sidled quietly around the quay, like some geriatric heron, peering intently into the water, but never once deploying his fork.

A loud, soggy thwack from some boulders beneath the quay announced that he had competition. A second fishermen, younger, and with a shock of thick silver hair, was rhythmically smacking an octopus onto one of the stones. It made a soggy, muffled retort, like beating a wet carpet. Whump. Whump. The octopus was about a foot long, its tentacles stretching out as far again. The man had removed its ink sack, which sat sadly, like a black purse, on a rock beside him. Then he spent fifteen minutes lathering the flaccid body against a rock, a milky residue seeping into the sea. He was tenderizing the flesh for the pot, he said.

Finally, the flotilla yachtsmen wandered around the quayside with their towels and toilet bags, heading for a shower, and their morning briefing. I couldn't help but feel slightly smug, thinking that they had missed such an intriguing part of the day. The previous year we had missed it too.

Martin Stote, a retired Daily Express staff journalist, has been sailing with his wife, sue in the Ionian for ten years. He is the Deputy Editor of The Ionian..

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History

The monastery of Rodia Yannis Kontopoulos scholars as early as the tenth century, the lagoon was also a valuable source of income and food. Even today the lagoon and the wider bay teem with wildlife - duck, fish of many varieties, oysters, shrimps, prawns, and eels.

One account has the monastery being established in 970 during the reign of the tanding in the grounds of Byzantine emperor Ioannis the Monastery of the Virgin Tsimiskis. During the next Mary of Rodia, gazing out 1000 years it could not always across the lagoon, it is still protect itself from the turbulent possible to imagine something history of the Ionian itself - the of the rich spiritual and eventual decline of Byzantine physical lives of the monks rule, the passage of the who once lived there.

Crusaders, domination of the The monastery, also known as islands by the Venetians, and the Panagia Rodia, stands at the incursions from the foot of the Black Mountains, on Ottoman empire. the edge of the Rodia Lagoon, In the 18th century, the which is tucked away in the monastery had two north western corner of the villages, Marati and Vigla Gulf of Amvrakia, (also called under its authority, a large Amvrakikos) just above amount of property and Preveza. It surveys a panorama fisheries, although some of of sea and salt marshes which the properties were glitter in the heat of a summer apparently later confiscated afternoon and in the evening

by Ottoman forces. are often bathed in the warm In the 19th century the glow of serene sunsets. monastery was also well But for the monks who first off, spending large settled there, according to some

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amounts of money to help maintain schools in Preveza and Arta.

In 1921 the monastery was annexed to another for administrative purposes; since then it has been declared an historical monument. In 2008 a monk’s cell was restored to give visitors some idea of the domestic austerity of the monastic lifestyle.

By contrast, the magnificent interior of the monastery church, or katholikon, is an artistic and religious kaleidoscope, decorated with a superb array of richly-coloured murals, which depict the history of the world from Adam

and Eve, the life and passion of Christ, and the Last Judgement.

They are painted in a naïve folk style using pigments and oxides mixed with glue, in breathtaking colours – gold, deep reds, purples and blues. This beautiful building is no longer used for regular parish worship, but is still used to celebrate the feast of the Holy Virgin four times a year and for special services on request.

If you wish to visit the Rodia Monastery and have a guided tour, you may contact Minerva Kontopoulou: tel: 26830 41219 or rodiacenter@gmail.com www.rodiawetlands.gr

On The Water

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he clincher for us was when

we sailed to Port Kastos for the night last August. With impeccably bad timing not one, not two, but three flotillas were converging on the harbour as we approached. To make things worse, Kastos harbour is tiny and the holding is poor.

The quay was already full on both sides, so we nosed our bow in until we ran out of depth, took a long line to a convenient lamp post ashore and chucked out the kedge anchor astern. Before long we had a raft going with several boats moored either side of us. I counted 75 boats in there that night. You could have walked ashore by stepping from one boat to another.

As partying went on all round us late into the night, we vowed next day to search for somewhere off the beaten track. But with high season definitely upon us and the Ionian as popular with yachties as ever, was there anywhere we could go to get away from the crowds?

In the morning we headed south towards the Dragonera islands. With the sea breeze filling our sails from behind, it didn't take long to reach our destination on the mainland.

There are fish farms on either side of the approach to Port Pandelimon. We were aiming for the double-headed inlet to the south. It looks like there's no way in as a fish farm straddles the entrance, but we found the narrow channel on the far side between the fish pens and the shore and motored in.

Once inside, we high-fived in triumph.

The anchorage was empty. No one else was there apart from a small fishing boat tied to a tree. And it stayed that way for

Off the beaten track in the Ionian – dream or reality?

Cathy King the rest of the day and all night. We had the place completely to ourselves - in August!

There's a price to be paid for such seclusion of course. There are absolutely no facilities ashore. The water was too murky to swim, there was a distinct whiff of fish in the air, and the security lights from the nearby ship-breaking yard spoiled the night sky. But we didn't mind any of that.

We'd found the peace and quiet we were looking for - and only a short sail away from the overcrowding of the night before.

Was our experience a one-off? Or does it give us a clue about where to go for a bit of peace and quiet? Well, there's no doubt that most of the charter boat skippers and flotilla captains love the islands. So heading for the mainland is a good bet. Here are a few of our favourite anchorages along the Ionian coast.

Starting at the top, Valtou Bay just north of Igoumenitsa is wonderfully sheltered and never gets too crowded. We take the dinghy out early in the morning and paddle across the wetlands for a spot of birdwatching. The gulf of Amvrakikos is one of our favourite places to sail as there's a reliable breeze with no swell. The delightful town of Vonitsa is on the flotilla circuit so it can get busy, but head further east into the gulf and there are plenty of safe anchorages on the north and

south sides depending on the direction of the wind. We spent a wonderful few days in Ormos Loutraki earlier in the year and we didn't see another yacht.

Just south of the Levkas canal is Ormos Variko, an open bay with crystal clear water and a good beach. Once the day trippers from Nidri have gone, it's a pleasant place for an overnight stay as long as the wind doesn't blow up from the south.

A few miles south of Port Pandelimon is Nisos Petalas. This large island shelters a wide expanse of shallow water under its east side. The anchorage area is much larger than the chart suggests - about the size of Vlicho bay. It's popular with visiting yachts but it never gets overcrowded and the surrounding scenery is magnificent.

It's unusual to find anything ashore in these places, although if you're lucky you may find a small taverna open. So it's a good idea to stock up on food and water before finding out to enjoy the peace and quiet of the Ionian in summer free from the crowds.

Off the beaten track in the Ionian can be a reality—even in August.

Cathy King, writer and deputy editor of The Ionian in 2010, spent the last two years cruising the Ionian with her husband Leighton onboard their Saltram 40, Makarma. Her debut novel, 'Paulina Annenkova', is published on Kindle at www.amazon.co.uk The Ionian welcomes your stories and photos. Contact the editor for more details.

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