Lefkada - Final Days

Right now time is not on our side so we'll post a few remaining pictures of Lefkada and of our way back to Athens. Here we go one final time!

Pictures: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 & 9 Aris

4, 7 & 8 Isabella

Rockwave 2013

Being spontaneous last evening we drove a few km away from Athens to the third and last day of Rockwave festival. Headliners were Dead Can Dance, which automatically means that the crowd would be a small one, since while they're good they're not that famous.

Other than them there was a wide variety of music styles, from extreme metal (septic flesh) to funk/soul (monophonic), and from brit pop (Greg Walker) to some sort of melodic metal-opera (chaostar), there were also a couple of other bands but we went to the venue a bit later so we're clueless.

Chaostar - A greek band a la nightwish, but not as metal. We also found out, just now, that some of the members plays in Septic Flesh as well. They were good by the way!

Greg Walker - Ex brit pop "star", known from Archive. He had a great attitude and made sure that everyone else around him felt at ease... (not). His irish humour though made the first negative impression subside. Very talkative too, couldn't stop himself calling everyone a bitch haha.

Monophonics - All da way from california, sort of the black card really, very energetic and dancey, the singer had a very James Brownish voice.

A random spraying-everyone-and-don't-care-stilt walker

Part of festival area

Septic "we are highly influenced by dead can dance" Flesh - Another greek band, no comments from Aris (not my cup of tea). And many comments from Isabella (scary as hell, it felt like they wanted to murder me when they sang, it's the devils music whaaaa!), no but really, huuu.

Dead Can Dance - Aris comment (my cup of tea!). Isabellas comments (hai!) <--- inside humour don't bother...

ΠΟΡΤΟ ΚΑΤΣΙΚΙ

As the post title says we went to Porto Katsiki which is one of the most famous beaches in the island. No need to write a lot about it actually, only that once again (like Egremni), you drive through hell to get there... and now that we talk about it, a tip for fellow drivers, be sure you have a full tank of gas in your car, you never know haha. We didn't, and on our trip back to our hotel as it got darker we had so little gas left that we thought we were going to have to spend the night on the mountains...

Pictures: 1 & 2 Isabella

3 & 4 Aris

p.s. To be continued...

Like it or not :P (Aris' comment, Isabella doesn't agree)

5th day

We started of this day by going to Sivota, a small village with an equally small, but cute, gulf and enjoyed some very nice food at a tavern next to the water. Later on we went to the waterfalls in Nidri and after a really nice "adventurous" walk we reached the waterfall. There we were brave enough to have a dip in the ice cold water as well, so refreshing and energy filling, really something to remember! If you ever find yourselves there don't hesitate. Finally we headed back to Lefkada city and attended a music school orchestra doing covers from "modern" songs, like PSY - Gangnam style haha and Queen. Of course the ABBA intermission couldn't be missing the whole summery mood haha.

1. In Sivota, as mentioned above.

2. The waterfall.

3.Same as the previous, they are located in a forest by the way.

4. The "concert"

Pictures: 1 Isabella

2, 3 & 4 "Cool" Aris

p.s. To be continued...

(is this really interesting to anyone reading? eh? eh?)

4th day in Lefkada

We decided to go to Egremni beach (or as Isabella prefers "paradise beach"). So you go by your car to what feels like the highest point of the mountain, then start climbing it down and finally when you're there, you park, and you realise that there are still 350 "stairs to heaven" that take you down to this wonderful spot. If you are still alive when reaching the goal, you are lucky, phew!

No need for further explanation here!

Pictures: 1 & 3 Aris 

2 & 4 Isabella

p.s. To be continued...