My Holiday in Lesvos

At the end of May Jayne and I enjoyed a week's holiday on the Greek island of Lesvos (also known as Lesbos). I thought I'd tell you a little bit about it, and also share a few photographs.

It was the first time we had ever been to Lesvos, although regular readers will know that Jayne and I love Greece and go there as often as we can.

Lesvos is the third largest of the Greek islands, after Crete and Evia. It's in the north-eastern Aegean, very close to Turkey. We stayed in Anaxos, a quiet resort on the north of the island, at a place called the Anaxos Hotel (which I highly recommend, by the way). The nearest town to Anaxos is Petra, which we went to on the local bus one day.

It was sunny every day during our holiday, and it got steadily hotter. Consequently we didn't do anything too strenuous, though we did spend plenty of time swimming in the sea and in the hotel pool. The picture below was taken from the balcony of our room and shows the pool and the hotel entrance.


We spent a lot of time on the beach, making good use of the free sunbeds at a beach bar called Hippocampus ('Seahorse'), which quickly became our favourite. Here's Jayne taking it easy with a new friend...


As mentioned, one day we went to Petra on the local bus and enjoyed lunch at the Women's Co-operative, which we'd seen recommended on the Internet. Here's a photo of the outdoor dining terrace. As you'll see, we had the place pretty much to ourselves...


And here's the delicious mixed plate we shared that day. I can almost taste it now!


The sunsets at Anaxos were all beautiful, but the one on the last day was particularly stunning. Here's a photo I'm currently using as the desktop on my PC!


You can see more photographs I took, including some of the impressively preserved interior of an 18th century merchant's house in Petra, on this Picasaweb page.

We definitely plan to return to Anaxos before too long!