Kalimera! Welcome to Pythagorio!

Some of my impressions from 8 days in May 2010 in the lovely village of Pythagorio on Samos island in Greece.
Take your time for an approx. 20 minutes long experience.

Special thanks to my friend Jiannis Loulourgas!

Kalimera! Welcome to Pythagorio! from Peter Molz on Vimeo.

Invitation to visit Samos island in 2010!

The season 2010 is starting, already some charter flights from the Netherlands came and the first charter flights from Germany are coming today to Samos!

Last year I asked my friend, the musician Dimos Kassapidis, to help me to record sort of a promotional videoclip for Samos island. Dimos is a singer who has been playing on Samos during the summer season for many years already and who knows the island and most of its landscapes, beaches and good taverns very well.

We went to almost empty Balos beach on a beautiful sunny and warm day in October and had lots of fun swimming and sunbathing and exploring some hidden coves. Later in the afternoon we did the recording for this clip.

Dimos is sending his invitation message in three languages to the internet world !
I do hope that you will like the videoclip with scenes from Balos beach, accompanied by the sound of the waves and the music of Dimos ...



Visit Dimos on his myspace site




More information and photos about Balos beach you can find here

MyWorld Tuesday

Sunrise timelapse

A SUnrise i took at the beach of Potokaki during September 2007.
For those of you who never enjoyed the early sunrise on Samos island ;-)

Greece on the ITB 2010 in Berlin

The ITB in Berlin, this year lasting from March 10th to 14th, is the worlds largest tourism and travel trade show. 11.127 exhibitors from 187 countries all over the world in 25 halls and approx. 180.000 visitors during the 5 days. Admission tickets were 28 Euros per day from Wednesday to Friday (professional visitors) and 14 Euros per day on the public days Saturday and Sunday.

Here are some of my photographic impressions of the stand of Greece in hall 2.2. on the ITB 2010 in Berlin, Germany.  

The stand of the prefectures of Lesbos and Chios, offering some nice red wine from Limnos.

Late Sunday afternoon, nobody anymore on the stand of Mykonos. Sunny islands inside the hall, while it is snowing heavily outside in Berlin!

If you might wonder why there are no photos of the stand of the prefecture Samos-Ikaria-Fourni ......, well to my disappointment I have to say that this year they didn't show up, they had no stand. As I learned "...due to technical reasons".

Nevertheless, most of the other greek exhibitors/prefectures from last year were there again with their stands, as can be seen on the map of exhibitors. So, no need to worry!

If you intend to come to Greece this year and you are the typical young and smart tourist (from this year on - according to new marketing strategy - you will be called "guest" instead), don't forget to take your Laptop to the beach then !

No more home computing, beach computing in Greece will become trendy;-)

Interview with Pavlos Geroulanos, Minister of Culture and Tourism of Greece on the ITB 2010 Berlin by Reuters.

More photographic impressions from stands of other countries like Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia, Spain in other halls of the ITB 2010 in Berlin I will publish within the next weeks in a special set on flickr.

Some videos can be found in my video channel on YouTube:

Rising Waters in Greece

Not only Samos island is facing problems with the rising water...

Video from 21. February 2010 in Samos town:

Carnival in Mainz

Maybe people on Samos are interested to see what is going on right now in the city in Germany where I live.

The bad news first: we are having a hard winter this year. It is cold, temperatures were below zero centigrade most of the time since the beginning of January! And we had lots of snow, unbelievable amounts of snow! It is still snowing from time to time, streets in the morning today were white again.

Now the good news: Life is extremely colourful (and loud) these days due to the hightime of carnival season! And the city of Mainz is one of the big centers for carnival (we in Mainz call it "Fassenacht") along the river Rhine.

Today, on Rose-Monday, despite the lousy cold temperatures, about fourhundred thousand people came to see and celebrate the parade in the city! The parade started in a quarter of the city called "Neustadt" at 11:11 and came to an end in another part of the city at about 16:30 in the afternoon. The parade itself had a lenght of approx. 7,5 km lasting almost 3 hours with approx. 10.000 active participants including many music groups (3.500 musicians!) and approx. 150 carnival floats.

With a couple of photos I will try to give you an idea of how colurful these days are now. Maybe the snow-white city and the pale skies acted as a perfect background to enhance all those vivid colours!
And we had lots of music everywhere with many marching bands. Not only today, but in the past days too we had many music groups playing live on a stage at Schiller square in the city, with thousands of colourfully dressed fools dancing to the music!!

Rose-Monday in the city of Mainz is a legal holiday, all shops and businesses are closed! Some even dare to say: "Mainz is a never-ending party throughout the year!"

If you want to see more photos, please visit my website about Mainz called: "Mainz-Images" with several reports on the carnival in Mainz!

Grey Heron - Graureiher

This Grey Heron is living at a Lake nearby the Hotel Dorissa Bay, Pythagorion.