If you want to see the sights of Ios, you will – unfortunately – have to exchange your hiking boots for a set of wheels I think we can all agree that walking is the perfect way of experiencing foreign destinations. The problem is that you do not always have the choice between good, better…
If you like Greek Orthodox churches and chapels, you would love the churches of Ios. Hiking (and driving) through Ios, you cannot miss the fact that there seem to be an awfully large number of churches and chapels around. No field or farm, no hill and certainly no mountain, no promontory and not even the…
Our walk into the glorious Mediterranean countryside to the lighthouse of Ios … a “prehistoric” Greek dance floor … … and the lizard, the wonderful lizard of I-Oz. To get to the lighthouse of Ios, all we have to do is follow the yellow stone wall … … and, to get to this wall in…
From Limani to Valmas and back to Chora – a perfect introduction to the charms of Ios Our first walk in Ios, and – of necessity – a short one. Such is the nature of the busy schedule that the municipality of Ios has prepared for us. In the morning, we were chauffeured around the…
Our first impressions of Ios small “Flower of the Aegean Sea Whenever we told somebody in Paros that we were planning to visit other islands of the Cyclades as part of our trip, he or she would invariably inform us that all islands were different, that they all had their unique character and that there…
