Weekend to Volos-Pelion Part F (last)

Have a nice month friends!
I really can't believe we are already in June! This has been such a difficult and disappointing winter and spring and now we are in summer already?
Yesterday I started doing my tax papers and realised I have to pay so much on taxes that I really don't know where I will find the money to do so!
On the other hand I am so in love with my experiences in Volos and Pelion that I really don't want to write on anything else! Today is the last part though!
After that I will be silent for a couple of days as I will be at my summer house cleaning it and preparing it for summer and therefore I won't have Internet access and then I will come back to blog about lots and lots of things I haven't told you the last couple of months! That's a promise I hope I will keep.
There will be small blogposts daily all the first fortnight of June so that I manage to cover all the previous months and whatever has happened the last weeks and of course the rest of the Romania trip!
Now about Volos and Pelion.
After the train trip we arrived at Milies and started walking upwards towards the village square. It was so beautiful walking amidst a grren paradise where all houses were hidden in the shadows of the green bushes and trees.

 There were cherry trees too.

 And little streams everywhere.

 And beautiful houses.

When we arrived at the square we saw the church of Taxiarhes.

There was a christening there at the time and there was going to be a prty for the christened twins in the square.

 The decorations for the christening were really beautiful.

We had to wait till the christening was over to go inside the church. So we enjoyed some cold local fizzy drinks. Epsa lemonade is my favourite.

When the christening was over we were allowed to enter the church and we followed an old man who guided us to the secrets of this church which has excellent acoustics and an amazing gallery of fresco icon paintings on the walls. The roof from the outside looks flat but from the inside there are twelve semicircular vaults.

After the tour we had lunch at the square. One of the local dishes is spentzofai which is sausages with sweet peppers. Delicious!

Then we went to our bus to take us home.

On the way home we stopped at the seaside village of Agria for coffee.

 I am still not really sure if this was a real plant or not. I smellt it, I touched it, it looked so beautiful and I thought it was plastic, but the truth is that it was real,but I don't know what it was.

Unfortunately there was a promenade not a beach so I could not collect sea glass. That's the only thing missing from this lovely trip!
Thank you for travelling with me! I hope you enjoyed it!

Weekend to Volos-Pelion Part E

I can't believe we are in part E of this weekend trip! Hubby says I am posting too many photos but I do take lots of them and love sharing them!
Anyway, after a good night's sleep we started our second day to Volos.
After a hearty breakfast(included in the price) we waited at the sea front for everyone to get ready!

Isn't it idylic?

I ate some red and white berries while waiting!
Our bus took us to the Ano Lehonia train station.There we took the picturesque train to Milies.

The views from the train were fantastic! Lots of green with olive trees and lots of little villages and views of the sea!

 We passed the DeKiriko bridge. He was the father of the painter. A wonderful bridge! You can enjoy a bit of our trip with the little train of Pelion in this video!

 At Ano Gatzea we did a short stop to see the view and visit the Olive oil Museum there.I would say we needed more time there.

At the Olive Oil Museum you could see how oil is produced and soap from it. It was beautiful but the time was really very little.

 We passed from bridges and tunnels.

 Oooops I am dizzy!!!!

No really it was a magical tour!

The last picture is where we arrived at the Milies village station.

The view there was as if you were in a magic forest and you would meet the fairies. I wish my camera could capture that wonderful view. How the sunrays came through the tall dark trees and in the sunrays I could see flower seed flakes dancing!I have never seen something similar before. I could only hear water running and birds singing and I thought time had stopped!

Then time started running again!

I saw an old building half demolished by the current with its balcony hanging in the air and water flowing underneath.

We then watched the turning of the train engine at the roundabout and left to reach the village.

 Some of our group had to help too. What an experience to turn a whole train engine!