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Changes to Walking Routes
(4th Edition):
Violent storms during the winter of 2009-10 caused major coastal damage and radical changes to many beaches, which have continued since the 4th Edition went to press. Routes along beaches may be difficult if there is a combination of high water and on-shore winds.
As of July 2010, however, all walks can be completed as described, with the exception of Walk 14, Anaxos to Ambelia Beach, and Walk 22, Eftalou to Skala Sikaminias.
Walk 14, Anaxos to Ambelia Beach: The final 20 metres of boardwalk along Anaxos beach have been washed away and not yet replaced. Depending on the state of the wind and tide, it is necessary to paddle or wade along under a concrete wall to reach the path leading away from the sea at point 2.
Alternatively, stay on the road when it turns away from the sea, and follow it inland for 50 metres as far as Stratos' Supermarket. Go down the concrete ramp to the right of the store, and continue along the lane/stream-bed to a T-junction. Turn right here to join the alternative route at point a2.
Walk 22, Eftalou to Skala Sikaminias: The beach route through the bays (points 3 to a4) has suffered severe damage, and it is now impossible to get round several of the headlands dividing the bays without wading.
Changes to Walking Routes
(3rd Edition):
All revisions up to October 2009 are now in 'Update 2010' & 'Herziene Uitgave 2010'
and available to download from those pages.
Roads
Stipsi:
The new road at Stipsi is simply a much needed bypass running below and south of the
town (contrary to the local rumour mill that had it as an alternative route to Mitilene,
bypassing Kalloni, although a Kalloni by-pass is apparently still in the pipeline)
Major excavations at the end of October 2006 turn out to have been simply site
preparation for a large new warehouse.
Kalloni - Mitilene
Ten years after the widening and improvement of the first section of the main road
from Kalloni to Mitilene, work has started on a by-pass for Lambou Mili, the one remaining bottle-neck.
Meanwhile there has been a rethink of part of the Kalloni-Lambou Mili section through the forest, where the road has been widened and re-aligned*; and major work has now been completed on the section along the Gulf of Gera.
There is also a new spur on the approach to Mitilene by-passing the town and leading to the coast road near the power station.
And now (Spring 2010), work is going on along the stretch across the head of
the Gulf of Kalloni between the junctions to Agia Paraskevi and Polichnitos,
apparently with the intention of converting it to a dual-carriageway.
One day maybe it will all be finished.
*The new dirt road at the top of the hill at the Lambou Mili end of this section
runs north to the coast road near Nees Kydonies, and has been built to serve
the island's long-awaited (and 75% EU-financed) new rubbish disposal plant.
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