Sifnos

Start Andiparos Athen Folegandros Paros Santorini Schinoussa Sifnos

 

 

At Sifnos we decided to take a day off from sailing and rented four scooters to take a look around the island.

 

wpe5.jpg (48591 bytes) Here we are disembarking the scooters in the city of Kastro. The small city was actually the capitol of Sifnos until the mid 1800's. We came to Kastro during the siesta so everything was closed and we had to look real hard to find a place to get something to drink.

 

wpe3.jpg (32670 bytes) Here he is, Stefan, the kamikaze photographer. There is nothing that can stop him when he has spotted a good angle (no wonder that we had to call him Costau).

 

wpe4.jpg (18057 bytes) Lunch in Platis Yialos. We actually had lunch half a meter from the water, incredible.

 

wpe6.jpg (39370 bytes) This is the stairs down to a small bay with cliffs that are ideal for swimming. We never realized why the small chapel is built down there, maybe some fisherman drowned there a long time ago?

 

wpe7.jpg (37891 bytes) Oh, yeah, there it is again, the chapel. Beautiful isn't it?

 

wpe8.jpg (37789 bytes) Hmm, some rockclimbing going on here.

 

wpe9.jpg (49082 bytes) After dusty roads and some walking in the ancient city comes, finally, the swimming part. It's rather hard to see but it is actually Jocke swimming around there and Bella that is looking at him.

 

wpe2.jpg (24351 bytes) This is an unidentified opening in one of the walls in Kastro. The person in the opening is definitely identified as Kerstin.

 

wpeA.jpg (31787 bytes) This is a somewhat typical view for the Cyclades, rather steep hills, brown soil, white houses and churches and chapels with very blue roofs.

 

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wpeD.jpg (14874 bytes) A beautiful sunset over Kamares and the western part of Sifnos.

 

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I don't know how he's doing it, but he sure gets beautiful sunsets on film (Photos by Stefan Berg).