The mega yacht "Al Mirqab" visiting Pythagorio

One of the largest private motor yachts in the world, the 133 meter long mega yacht "Al Mirqab" - owned by the emir of Qatar - came to Pythagorio for a short visit in the evening on Monday, June 14th, 2010.

I had heard about this event a day in advance. But when the yacht finally approached Pythagorio early in the evening (coming along all the south coast of Samos from Votsalakia), I just came out of the bathroom after having taken a shower. So, with the towel wrapped around me, I stood on the balcony and filmed the yacht "Al Mirqab" slowly gliding towards Pythagorio.
Then I decided to drive on top of the hill above Pythagorio to take some footage from there.

Most of the photos included in the video by kind permission of Sofoklis Arelis who went down to the harbour to take shots from a closer distance.
Music (song: "come holy fire") by Lothar Kosse, a german guitarist and singer.

Samos Summer Holiday 2010

We were having a good time in a fish tavern in Ireon. After eating delicious sea food we decided spontaneously to record a video of a song we changed the title a bit from "Summer Holiday" to "Samos Holiday"! ;-)
Besides the footage from Ireon, I included some scenes from other places on the island.

Samos summer holiday from Peter Molz on Vimeo.

Waterfall near the village of Ambelos

After hearing about it for many years already, this year I finally found my way to the waterfalls near the village of Ambelos high above the north coast of Samos. It is quite an adventureous small footpath leading up and down to the waterfall. The path starts from the last sharp bend of the road before it reaches the platia of the village. There, a sign is indicating the start of the path.
Some parts of the footpath are secured with ropes, making it easier to get along on the rocky ground. And the closer you get to the waterfall, the steeper, cooler and shadier it becomes!

Here are three videoclips showing the waterfall and part of the footpath.



Videoclip 2
Videoclip 3

There was not too much water coming down there on May 30th, 2010.
If you want to see how the waterfall looked like way back in February, watch the nice and entertaining videostory of Nick Tsoulontino on YouTube about Ambelos and this waterfall.

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: