Limonas: Monemvasia, Greece 2010

Well, we are back from our 12 day break to the small cottage of Limonas, located about 7km south of Monemvasia in the Peloponese, Greece. It could have been warmer and the facilities could have been better, but all things considered it was great to get away for a bit and to see another part of the world.

Now comes the mammoth task of documenting it all for posterity.

I will endeavour to edit this post as I go and make this the first port of call for all the information about the holiday.

Photos are on my Flickr site and I will generate a separate post for each day of the holiday, with links here. Each post will be based on the journal I kept during the holiday.

Day	Date	Title (click on each title to go to that page)	Kms Driven
1	Monday 18th October 2010	Oxford to Monemvasia	339km
2	Tuesday 19th October 2010	Limonas discovered	90km
3	Wednesday 20th October 2010	Monemvasia	25km
4	Thursday 21st October 2010	Exploring Lakonia
5	Friday 22nd October 2010	A day around Limonas
6	Saturday 23rd October 2010	Mistras
7	Sunday 24th October 2010	Metamorfosi, Richea and Gerakas
8	Monday 25th October 2010	Pyrgos Gerakiou and Badron Gorge
9	Tuesday 26th October 2010	A day at the beach – Palea Monemvasia
10	Wednesday 27th October 2010	Gytheio, the Mani and Kelefa Castle
11	Thursday 28th October 2010	A day at the beach part 2 – Epidaurus Limera
12	Friday 29th October 2010	Monemvasia to Oxford	339km

 

The cottage should appear centered in the following
map

And I have created a Google Map of my own that shows the key places mentioned in these blog posts.

We found the Limonas cottage through the following website. Details of the cottage are here and here.

Edit 13/11/2010: We had the final receipt for the hir car through recently. Over the course of 12 days I drove 1829km. Google Maps reckons it is 339 km from Athens Airport to Limonas, so that accounts for 678km, leaving 1151km over 10 days.