{"id":17794,"date":"2015-10-07T07:28:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T20:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=17794"},"modified":"2019-05-17T07:34:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T21:34:33","slug":"melissa-beach-greece-2015-%f0%9f%87%ac%f0%9f%87%b7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=17794","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Beach, Greece. 2015 \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Travelled: 51 kilometres from Katakolo to Melissa Beach (Kastro), the Peloponnese.<\/strong>
Visited: Lazed on the beach.<\/strong>
Stayed: Melissa Beach, free with tap and toilet (unbelievable as it may seem), taverna nearby. N37.88937, E21.11149<\/a> (2 nights).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Obviously there will be lots of tourists in Olympia today.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Katakolo is the port a few kilometres from Pyrgos (free of mountains of rubbish thankfully).  Pyrgos is a large town, Katakolo is really a village.  While Katakolo may have developed as a regional port, it’s apparently a cruise ship stopover for tourist to visit Olympia.  In fact there’s a very fancy little motor-rail running from Katakolo to Olympia.  Why all this trivia, we go to sleep parked next to three other motorhomes and wake up to a large cruise ship docking just behind us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Free camping in Katakolo.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

While we are technically parked on the beach, it’s a fine hard-packed sand almost like powder and being a port you would not swim here. To us Katakolo was a quiet spot to spend the night and little more. A quick coffee and fruit before we say goodbye to our Austrian neighbours and head north looking for a proper beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An hour later we found a lovely beach and some neighbors at Melissa Beach. It’s only an hour from Patra so we’ll stay here until our ferry on Thursday afternoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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There is also a very impressive looking castle at Kastro, about 3 kilometres back. So we may have a look at that whilst where here.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Our Dutch neighbor offers me a lesson on his paddle board.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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As it turned out I didn’t need one.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Michael and Pam<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Travelled: 51 kilometres from Katakolo to Melissa Beach (Kastro), the Peloponnese.Visited: Lazed on the beach.Stayed: Melissa Beach, free with tap and toilet (unbelievable as it may seem), taverna nearby. N37.88937, E21.11149 (2 nights). Katakolo is the port a few kilometres from Pyrgos (free of mountains of rubbish thankfully).  Pyrgos is a large town, Katakolo is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[79],"class_list":{"0":"post-17794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-greece","8":"tag-greek-villages","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17796,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17794\/revisions\/17796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}