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Post by amy114 on Sept 11, 2015 18:57:08 GMT
I went online and booked a flight to Skiathos leaving on Friday 18th for a week! I've been trawling the internet since looking for accommodation around Aghia Paraskevi since. Ive found a couple of places that had availability - Dream House and Paris Apartments - and wonder if anyone can recommend? Write-ups state the latter is just down the side of bus-stop 16 but cannot quite locate the former. I don't want to be walking down long badly lit lanes at night so would prefer somewhere close to the main road.
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Post by kenbrenda2 on Sept 11, 2015 20:22:30 GMT
Dream house is up the lane at the side of Platanios restaurant, then past Maestrali and Pegasus you will find the small Dream House on the right and side. I have not stayed in the accommodation but have eaten in the very simple courtyard 'eatery'. The lane is not very well lit but has very light traffic and is level walking. No more than a ten minute slow walk from Ag. Pariskevi beach.
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Post by amy114 on Sept 11, 2015 21:07:42 GMT
Thanks kenbrenda2 that's really helpful. How was the food?
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windy
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Posts: 53
Visits to Skiathos: More than 10
Accommodation Stayed At: Skiathos Palace, Morfia Troulos, Paris Studios AP, Villa Maraki AP,
The Marina Kolios. Yadim Kolios,
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Post by windy on Sept 11, 2015 22:22:24 GMT
Hi Amy, we have stayed in Paris Studios but was back on 2008, they were very nice & in a good position right next to Bus Stop 16 and directly behind Mesostrato Taverna, both owned by the same family. Although on main road they are set far enough back so noise not a problem. Wouldn't hesitate to stay there, hope you get fixed up & have a great holiday.
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Post by amy114 on Sept 12, 2015 7:16:05 GMT
Thanks Windy just need to make a decision now and hope that there is still availability!
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Post by kelso on Sept 12, 2015 7:51:20 GMT
Well done Amy. It's good to be impulsive. Have a great holiday, but watch your ankles this time!!! ? Bob
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Post by kelso on Sept 12, 2015 7:53:58 GMT
Dennis, great to hear from you. I was watching your approach on Flightradar and the flipping thing showed your plane landing in the sea just east of the runway! Isn't technology wonderful.
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Post by kenbrenda2 on Sept 12, 2015 8:09:59 GMT
Amy114, food at Dream House is very simple, Very fresh, very tasty and extremely inexpensive (example 2 half kilos of rose, 4 beers, 1coke, 1 very large Greek salad, tatsziki, olives, cheese pie, 3 x three skewer chicken slouvaki plates, 1 x pork chop, 2 x meatball plates, 2 x chicken in cream sauce = €59........incredible). Owner is retired local police officer who does the cooking and you can see him loading and basting every skewer with great care, a bit of entertainment really. As I said, basic but very Greek, just the thing for a break after many evenings of the richer food.
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Post by amy114 on Sept 12, 2015 8:35:36 GMT
Wow, that is great value, I'm salivating at the thought! You may have swayed me kenbrenda2!
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Post by amy114 on Sept 12, 2015 8:53:14 GMT
Thanks Bob, I aim to! I will be very careful around holes this trip but will be taking my ankle supports just in case :-)
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Post by kevb on Sept 14, 2015 12:55:38 GMT
Great stuff, took a (small) leaf from your book this time and had a night on Skopelos as part of my week in Skiathos. Had goat stew at one of the harbour restaurants.
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Post by amy114 on Sept 14, 2015 18:53:42 GMT
Kevb do tell me what it tastes like please. My brother said it was similar to lamb and Dennis said it tasted like meat (so funny), what did you think? Also, what did you think of your one night in Skopelos?
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Post by dennisn on Sept 14, 2015 19:19:18 GMT
Amy, if you ever saw Crocodile Dundee, he described the taste of something different. It's a cross between that and strawberry fool. Or in other words, middling tasty. It is certainly not strong or gamey or any of what you might dislike. Most gyros are made with it I believe.
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Post by amy114 on Sept 14, 2015 19:31:32 GMT
Oh that gives me something to think about on this trip!
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Post by kevb on Sept 15, 2015 16:06:37 GMT
Actually the goat itself was a bit bland tbh and it wasn't really a stew in the British sense but they cooked it in a very tasty tomato based sauce with herbs so it was a decent meal all in all. I only tried it as it was billed as 'local speciality', maybe I'm just a sucker tourist ;-) I had a good day and a half on Skopelos, in the afternoon that I arrived (came in around 12:30) I pottered round town and found a place I'd been to for a beer at the end of the harbour when I did a Skopelos/Alonissos boat trip in 2012. At least it confirmed to me that we made port in Skopelos town itself and not Glossa as I thought at one time (they didn't tell us!)I also found an interesting little snack bar type place on the end of the old castle area high up on the outskirts of town (north east corner). Great view but a mythos plus yoghurt with honey and fruit set me back 10 euros! nice though and there was enough to call it lunch. Next morning I walked up to one of the monasteries in the hills out the south east end of skopelos town (very hot day, nearly killed me)then walked back into town just in time to catch a bus to Panormos where I had lunch looking out to a shimmering sea at a beachside tavern. Bus back to town for a final hour and a beer before catching the 4:30 ferry back to Skiathos. I just stayed in a basic block of typical Greek rooms (though it had air con at no extra cost)about 15min walk from the town centre. It was mostly fields around the accommodation so quite rural feel to it and only 22 euros for the night. I think I was the only person staying there that day and though I didn't say which ferry I was coming in on the owner came down to the harbor to give me a lift back to the room which was decent of him.
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