In this article, we shortly suggest some spots of Greece, South Peloponnese and Island of Evia, tested once again by our friend Crizyia. The article is accompanied by a lot of really convincing pictures of each spot.
Windsurf spot reviews: South Attica, Evia island, Vasilliki and Lefkada, South Peloponnese (Greece)
5-11 August 2013 - Attica
DATE: 05.08.2013
SPOT: Lavrio beach - South West Attica - COORDIN. GPS: N 37°43.257’ E 024°03.547’
Weather: Sunny
Wind: Meltemi
Sail: 4,0 mt
VOTE: ****
COMMENTS: beautiful spot with significant waves (one wave session, broken a 340 mast)
DATE: 05.08.2013
SPOT: Anavyssos beach - South East Attica - COORDIN. GPS: N 37°43.521’ E 023°56.043’
Weather: Sunny
Wind: Meltemi
Sail: 5,0 mt.
VOTE: **
COMMENTS: great flat spot, but with very gusty wind
DATE: 06.08.2013
SPOT: Anavyssos beach - South East Attica
Weather: Sunny
Wind: Meltemi
Sail: 4,4/4,0 mt.
VOTE: **
COMMENTS: flat, but it was impossible to try maneuvers with 45 knots gusts...
DATE: 07.08.2013
SPOT: Anavyssos beach - South East Attica
Weather: Sunny
Wind: Meltemi
Sail: 4,4/4,8 mt.
VOTE: ****
COMMENTS: Five hours in the water! less gusty, flat
DATE: 08.08.2013
SPOT: Anavyssos beach - South East Attica
Weather: Sunny
Wind: Meltemi
Sail: 4,0/4,8 mt.
VOTE: ***
COMMENTS: flat but very gusty
DATE: 09.08.2013
SPOT: Loutsa Nissakia beach - West Attica Ovest COORDIN. GPS: N 37°59.256’ E 024°01.031’
Weather: Sunny
Wind: Meltemi
Sails: 4,4/5,0 mt.
VOTE: ***
COMMENTS: beatiful spot, doble taste: wave e freeride
DATE: 10.08.2013
SPOT: Loutsa Nassikia beach - West Attica
Weather: Sunny
Wind: Meltemi
Sail: 4,0 mt.
VOTE: ****
COMMENTS: strong and constant wind, flat
DATE: 11.08.2013
SPOT: Loutsa East beach - West Attica COORDIN. GPS: N 37°59.506’ E 024°01.774’
Weather: Sunny
Wind: Meltemi
Sail: 4,4/5,0 mt.
VOTE: ***
COMMENTS: strong but costant
1st week of holiday in the spectacular Greece, where Giorgio soon feels at home... (unlike me !!)
The Meltemi, gusty wind, so different from the usual Garda wind, gives me some trouble .. (average 28/38 knots).
It blows every day throughout the day .. in short .. a feast !!
Let's see what's in store for the prox days ..
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12-18 August 2013 Attica, Evia island
DATE: 12.08.2013
SPOT: Loutsa East beach - West Attica
Weather: Sunny
Wind: Meltemi
Sail: 4,4 mt.
VOTE: ****
COMMENTS: beatiful ride on the east side. Wave session with a 77 liters board
DATE: 14.08.2013
SPOT: Marmari – Golden beach
Weather: Sunny
Wind: Meltemi
Sail: 4,4 mt.
VOTE: ****
COMMENTS: spectacular spot!! Never seen such a flat water with such a strong wind ...
When just arrived, anemometer already measures 36 knots.
DATE: 15.08.2013
SPOT: Marmari – Golden beach
Weather: Sunny
Wind: Fotonic Meltemi
Sail: 4,0 mt. in the morning and 3,5 in the afternoon
VOTE: ****
COMMENTS: wind for few riders, little waves that you could surf, less gusty than usual.
DATE: 16.08.2013
SPOT: Marmari – Golden beach
Weather: Sunny
Wind: Meltemi
Sail: 4,4 mt.
VOTE: ***
COMMENTS: again strong, gusty, but more forgiving!! in the afternoon, it goes up to 51 knots…
DATE: 17.08.2013
SPOT: Marmari – Golden beach
Weather: Sunny
Wind: Meltemi 50/58 knots
COMMENTS: impossible today to enter into water with boards, even fore more radikal surfers!!!
DATE: 18.08.2013
SPOT: Karystos – Kavos beach
Weather: Sunny
Wind: Meltemi
Sail: 4,0 mt.
VOTE: ***
COMMENTI: very gusty, but very flat. Only trouble: off shore wind that pushes out of the bay..
Second week of holiday and we decide to move to the island of Evia we had planned to reach travelling on land.
Marmari and Karystos remained in our heart like few ...
Here, the Meltemi has given the best ...
Aloha
19-25 August 2013 – Evia Island and Peloponnese, Ionian islands (Lefkada)
DATE: 19.08.2013
SPOT: Karystos – Ag. Paraskevi beach
Weather: Sunny
Wind: Meltemi
Sail: 4,4 mt.
VOTE: ***
COMMENTS: never surfed in a more beautiful place (with regards to landscape), gusty but very flat
DATE: 20.08.2013
SPOT: Loutsa Nassikia beach - West Attica
Weather: Sunny
Wind: Meltemi
Sail: 4,8/5,3 mt.
VOTE: ***
COMMENTS: very beatiful ride with friends. At evening, to see local riders with great sails going very very fast increases my self-confidence, so that I try to go off shore with them!!!!
DATE: 22.08.2013
SPOT: Vassiliki – Lefkada
Weather: Sunny
Wind: SW Thermal breeze
Sail: 5,0/5,4 mt.
VOTE: ***
COMMENTS: we follow the new friends and after the bad day of yesterday, wind finally arrives at around 16:30, and the bay is filled with sails !! Beautiful session even if the landscape is darker than the previous ones....
This spot is served by 4 well-equipped windsurfing centers (boards Fanatic, Starboard, JP and sails Tushingam, NS, Gaastra)!!
DATE: 23.08.2013
SPOT: Lefkada beach – Lefkada
Weather: Sunny
Wind: SW Thermal beach
Sail: 5,3/5,8 mt.
VOTE: *
COMMENTS: very beatiful beach, but wind is not good as we imagined
DATE: 25.08.2013
SPOT: Mavrovouni – South East Peloponnese
Weather: Sunny
Wind: West
Sails: 5,3 mt.
VOTE: ***
COMMENTS: after a travel by car almost of 7 hours, we arrive to Mavrovouni, where in the afternoon usually you have a thermal wind.
Nice session, and it's fascinating to admire local young freestylers training.....
For the third week of holiday, we decide to take a look around Marmari and we discover a paradise: Ag. Paraskevi in Karystos.
Convinced by new friends, as the forecasts for the Meltemi were not good, we follow them in Lefkada, then we continue in the South Peloponnese, where fortunately we still find wind .....
Evia island is now marked in our best itineraries !!
26-29 August 2013 – South Peloponnese del Sud
DATE: 26.08.2013
SPOT: Mani beach - Mavrovouni – South East Peloponnese
Weather: Sunny
Wind: South
Sail: 5,4 mt.
VOTE: **
COMMENTS: finally a session most suitable for me .....
and it's great to have my equipment already rigged!!!
DATE: 26.08.2013
SPOT: Mani beach - Mavrovouni – South East Peloponnese
Weather: Sunny
Wind: WEST
Sail: 5,0 mt.
VOTE: ***
COMMENTS: nice session with plenty of riders in the water!!
DATE: 27.08.2013
SPOT: Mani beach - Mavrovouni – South East Peloponnese
Weather: Sunny
Wind: South
Sail: 5,4 mt.
VOTE: *
COMMENTS: as the previous day.
DATE: 27.08.2013
SPOT: Mani beach - Mavrovouni – South East Peloponnese
Weather: Sunny
Wind: WEST
Sail: 5,0 mt.
VOTE: ***
COMMENTS: as the previous day.
DATA: 29.08.2013
SPOT: Founikounta beach – Messinia - South West Peloponnese
Weather: Sunny
Wind: South
Sail: 5,4 mt.
VOTE: **
COMMENTS: enough good session with not crowded beach!!
DATE: 29.08.2013 (the last day)
SPOT: Founikonta beach – Messinia - South West Peloponnese
Weather: Sunny
Wind: WEST
Sail: 5,0 mt.
VOTE: ***
COMMENTS: Fantastic afternoon enlivened by a close meeting with a sea turtle off shore.
How exciting ..
Accessed weather site that goes for more in Greece (www.meteo.gr), we decide to spend the last days in the southern Peloponnese.
Again we are lucky and aside one day, where instead we focused a little on culture, visiting the Palace of Nestor and the beach Omega at Methoni, wind rewards us again ...
Finally, we say good bye to the wonderful Greece, which leaves us a truly indelible mark ..
We hope to return sooner or later .. !!
How to reach the spots from Italy:
By Sea: from Venice, Ancona and Bari to Patras (from Ancona 18/19 hours of navigation, Anek Lines, Fast Ferries or Minoan Lines), then take the motorway towards Athens. For those with van / camper is highly recommended book by mid February!!
By Air: from Linate, Orio al Serio, Verona to Athens, then car rental on site.
Hotel, Studios or campsites. available.
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