SIGRI Lesvos Greece - Hellas: Ιουλίου 2012

Κυριακή 15 Ιουλίου 2012

EFPT (European Freestyle Pro Tour) comes to Sigri!!! 10th-12th. August 2012

A trailer of the upcoming EFPT-Event 2012 in Sigri!
Plus that:

Τρίτη 3 Ιουλίου 2012

Kees and Joke, about Sigri...

It is with great pleasure that we write on this blog about our stay in Sigri during the last week of May 2012.

We had a very good time in a beautiful apartment of the Villa Anastasia.

Because it was our intention to walk in the environment, we followed some promenades of the North and South beaches. The views on Sigri and the surrounding mountains are spectacular because of the vastness of the landscape in which the sea and the rocks seem to struggle as well to embrace each other at the same time. Furthermore the flora of specific Mediterranean plants and parts of petrified trees, combined with animals, like small turtles and several species of birds (even an Owl) made us very happy to be there.

Every evening we went to Café Kentro to have access to internet and a chat with the owner Mr. Andonis Choitis and some other guests. Besides his conversations, we enjoyed very much his special teas, coffees and - not to forget- those delightful pastries. We could not stay long enough to taste all the different flavors of food and drinks that were offered.

We also enjoyed walking through the bright small streets of Sigri.

One of the nicest shops was that of local jeweller Mr. Chatziandeou, who stayed for several years in our country (the Netherlands) to expand his professional expertise. There we bought one of the many very small boats that decorate the walls of his beautiful shop. We consider these boats, besides the jewellery he makes, as real works of art, unique in the world. He collects in wintertime tiny pieces of driftwood at the beach and makes boats of it. The models have the original shape of the fisher boats of Lesvos.

It is one of our most special souvenirs we ever bought.

Completing our stay we visited the National History Museum that gives an impressive insight in the volcanic history of Lesvos and natural history in general. We were very surprised and pleased to see a school class of children practising excavations of petrified wood by a very good imitation of professional practices and - by doing so - were learning while playing and vice versa.

Besides Sigri, we visited three other places on Lesvos, but we did not met local people in a more personal way. May be the reason for this is that Sigri was less populated with tourists (as far as we could see).

In any case we like to think that ‘Sigrians’ are the most open and friendly people of all Lesvos.

As we look at the small boat on the wall in our living room, we will remember these people and of course their friendly town in its impressive surrounding landscapes.

Kees and Joke

Κυριακή 1 Ιουλίου 2012

Jolanta's beautiful aquarelas

Jolanta Uktverytėis from Lithuania. She is one of the muster students for “Sustainable Tourism”, who were in Sigri for two weeks.

And these are some aquarelas of her!

They are so nice!

Thank you Jolanta!

MESPOM 2012

Lesons and activities in Sigri, for Masters students,

studying “Sustainable Tourism” in Sigri...

With graduate students in Sigri ...

Successfully carried out this year's third Kentrovision Karaoke Song Contest, in the cafe "the center".

Attended graduate students from 16 countries who came to our village to work on alternative tourism and filled life!

This year was ... a "ballad year" !! Winning became Iceland, with Brigita, sweet singing with the ukulele.
In second place was Lithuania, singing a traditional song and third Albania - countries which have never won the Eurovision contest.
The quintet is completed by the partnership in Latin America (Nicaragua - Mexico - Costa Rica) and fifth the winner of ESC 2012, Sweden. Last on the list this year, Germany ...
The photos are typical for the atmosphere of this day ...