This time we head to North Mani, visiting a cute fishing village, drive the mountain
roads and stop for a bit of a strange lunch with stunning views. Plus lots more so stay tuned!
Heading north of our base in Lemini we drove the winding elevated roads until we arrived at the
cute fishing village of Agios Nicolaos about 30 kilometers from Kalamata. It's known as Ag Nik
by british tourists.
It's a popular place to stay for holiday makers.
There are some really nice airbnbs and traditional guest houses in the area.
The village is still an active fishing harbour and fish markets happen early most days.
As a result the local tavernas have the freshest catch on the menu every lunchtime and evening.
So I think this is where they bring the fish in from the sea and they lay it out on these slabs
and then weigh it up, price it up, and it goes to the restaurants
just in the town here. Really nice!
Whilst it's rocky in the harbour area, for those looking for a sandy beach
there is one about a 10 minute walk south of the village.
This area of Mani has some great windy mountain roads to raise you up over the peninsula.
Tthe terrain is pretty good so if you have a car we highly recommend
taking a few hours out around the mountains to take in the views.
We've been tipped off about a local taverna that has incredible views
so we decided to take a stop off for a drink and a lunch snack. Doesn't look very open!
So the owners popped out and left us with some of the other people having a drink and there's not
a lot of English going on. The guy is quite good but they've gone to get us two beers,
but i'm glad we came up here because there's a really good view. I mean it's
quite a winding road to get up here but yeah he's popped off to get us two alphas
so even though the owners popped out we're gonna get served, so that's good.
Got your Alpha, cheers, Yamas!
That's nice i like the alpha yeah good brew! I mean it's probably just like Greek fosters but it's nice.
This just shows how amenable the Greeks are, friends of the owner just having a drink and
enjoying the view managed to rustle up a chicken and chips lunch for us.
Not what's normally on the menu but the best we could communicate between us.
I guess they know british tourists well, something with chips always works.
Will fed most of his lunch to the begging cats around our feet which i think he enjoyed.
Overall it was pretty good, if a little expensive at 20 euros but the views made up for it.
Rather than head back the same way we carried on with our mountain drive with no
real clue where we were heading but sometimes that's just part of the fun of a road trip.
This small cove should have been included in our Caves of Diros
video a few episodes back as it's the Diros beach.
Check out that video if you missed our adventures in the flooded underground caves.
So we made it to the beach, come down quite a steep windy road just a single track
and then there's parking all the way along the front of the beach. The beach itself is really
pebbly, it's quite difficult to walk on but we've just been for a swim and once you step into the
water a couple of meters, the rocks give way to really soft sand and the water we reckon probably
around 22 maybe a little bit more degrees warm. So it's a small shock when you get in but really
it's fine and you can float around in there no worries about being cold, and of course there's
no clouds in the sky it's beautifully warm yeah lovely. {Simon} apart from the clouds behind you?
Well they're like puffy ones but above us there is nothing.
Next time we'll walk around the cobbled streets of the ancient town of Areopoli and have dinner at
one of the outdoor tavernas. It's a very pretty place, so don't miss this video! Thanks for
watching, remember to subscribe so you don't miss anything. Happy travels from the Memoryseekers