Monday, 9 February 2026

Winter By the Sea

 


Evening rowers at
Sunset 


The little stone chapel dedicated to St Sophia
Guarding Love Bay


This is a very small bay and in mid summer it's very popular.  There are lines of cars parked along the road above turning it into a one-way track.
Down on the beach there are 2 or 3 rows of sunbeds and half a dozen yachts anchored just off shore


There's one small canteen which does a roaring trade 
I've only ever been down there once.  The seabed is quaggy, squishy underfoot
    But the little bay and beach live up to it's name.
It's a very romantic little bay with St Sophia and her chapel keeping guard and the pine trees almost down to the water providing shade

St Sophia has her fiesta on 17 September.  The service here is always popular and in latter years the 'Women of Poros' have made sure there are piles of sweet Holy bread and other delights to be handed around after the liturgy

8 comments:

  1. Peaceful and calm - how beautiful.

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  2. Picture No 1 looks more like a Lake than the Sea; so calm. You certainly live in a beautiful spot.

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    1. It was so calm. I could hear the rowers quite clearly as their coach guided them

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  3. gorgeous bay - shame about squidgy underfoot (feet can be sensitive to texture - i just wonder what is living in the squidge😵‍💫

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    1. Yes, I don't know why it's so squidgy. There are a couple of beaches like that. Also I don't like the idea of those yachts tied up in the Bay. I hope they're not emptying any tanks

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