6/08/10 - Arriving on Paros we headed down to Punda Beach Club on the basis that there was no wind and from the advise from our Greek friend Yanis. Many skantilly clad young ladies later we decided to head off to find our place to stay for the night for some reason. We headed to the North of the Island at a camp site at Santa Maria Beach. The site has many younger people and many people playing bat and ball on the beach, they seem to love it over here. The beach has a windsurf hire centre but as there was no wind only a few beginners were out practising.
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| Camp at Santa Maria |
7/08/10 - Headed over to Poundta on the SW of the island. Met up with 2 French fellow windsurfers Damien & Sebastian. I rigged the 7.5m +110L and sailed over to Antiparos just a short distance away.
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| Mat with French guys |
Later headed into Naousa on the North of the island and discovered that this was the main place to party here, finally heading back at 5am we had had enough for the night as it started to drain on the resources at 8euros a beer in a small club called Leonardos.
8/08/10 - Yet another no wind day, Mat arranged to give a lift to some school teachers we met all from a school in Essex. Not missing an opportunity to see how many school teachers can be fit into the back of Mat's van I took the below photo.
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| Poundta Beach |
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| Mat At Poundta Beach |
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| Antiparos in distance |
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| Sebastian |
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| Mat, Me, Natassa, Sebastian & Dino cooking on 'Son of Hibatchi' |
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| Wild Camping for the night at Poundta |
10/08/10 - Woke feeling a bit flu like the next morning maybe due the salt air or the start of an illness.
Finally got to rig the 91Litre +6m. I really liked the board and was surprised to find it comfortably took the 6m along with my weight, the conditions were strong enough to cater for this combination but later dropped off so changed to the comfort factor of the 110L being able to plane through the lulls in the channel. Went to Naousa for the night going for our usual Gyros Pita's in the lanes from our newly found Albanian waiter 'Nikoli' as we became such regulars here we would often be given free 'Alpha' beers here.
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| Mat and I at Poundta with me trying to get planing on new board |
Wild camped at a beach between Naousa and Santa maria.
11/08/10 - Due to us both feeling ill we decided to check into a hotel - Windmill for a night (80euros) I must admit a nice luxury.
no wind
12/08/10 - Checked into another hotel up the road 'Zefi' and was welcomed by the manager 'Dimitris' and used the pool etc here for the next few days.
13/08/2010 - Headed to Parikia to take the ferry to Naxos to pick up my repaired board due to making a promise to teach someone some windsurfing. Although this is not the ideal board to learn on I found if they were light enough and you could often get them up-hauling and on there way in no time.
15/08/10 - Headed to New Golden beach on East of the Island. Finally, a decent piece of wind had arrived 30knots, so I managed to fully test out the 91L with a 5.3m North Ice sail with a few piece of small chop and even saw a Sea turtle swimming alongside - what a great day. Later we headed into Naousa for a friend's 'Name Day' this is day in which the Greek's celebrate the saint from which their name comes from and tend's to have higher regard than their actual birthday.
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| New Golden Beach |
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| Mat at New Golden |
17/08/10-Found a serviced apartment for a reasonable price due to it going into the low season called Mitsi Studios just a short walk from Naousa town centre ran by a lovely lady called Maria and her family (check the link below for bookings), so checked in there and check out of Zefi. Out to Santa Maria beach party that evening.
www.mitsiparos.com
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