Traffic in Parga

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There are some main streets (red) which are to be driven by cars or big motorcycles and lie with those also primarily the countless villas and apartment buildings in which the travelers find her lodging .
The streets released for the traffic one-ways are after Greek relations, only to two-lane vehicles .

The Old Town (dark green) is only to walk, also the harbour promenade. Harbour promenade was flattened in spring 2005 and paved in laborious manual labor anew what will certainly please the vacationers, especially that who are not so well on foot .

If one strolls through the narrow lanes of the town lying on the hill, can barely imagine that here more active single-track motorized traffic rules. However, the inhabitants par proves the opposite. They go by her motorbikes up and down, carry with it even all possible ones. It is usual to make place to a motorcycle. In the meantime, to the motorcyclist risen count even on it !

1 The crossing

Left is the OTE, on the other side a big church and a scool. It is the main crossing in Parga. Straight away and you reach the post office.

Turn left and go up a piece the street, you comes to "green bakery". It is not only the oldest baker's of Parga , quite exclusively and in the high prize position, it´s a pleasure, during the rush hour (10 - 12 a.m. and 4p.m.??? ) subjoin there and to watch how in the actually single-track street coaches in oncoming delivery vans and busses.

4 Kanaris Konstantinos Kanaris (1790-1877) led at night from 6. on 7th June 1822 his ships against the Turkish fleet. When he reached the Turkish flagship, he beaconed it and met the ammunition space on which the ship exploded. As a result he still destroyed the rest of the Turkish fleet and was chose to the hero .

Parga built him this monument and named the place on which it stands after him. In addition, there is every year 15th August a big party in which the scene is adjusted . Behind the Marmor-Kanaris: culinary lusciousness, beside him the red train and the rattling motorbikes drive past, around him saunter the tourists. But all this does not interest him. He looks out at his sea as if he was always ready to jump, the Turkish fleet should appear again in the horizon .

3 The way to creep

In view of the construction work in May 2005, which allowed to become the Kanaris curve quite difficult for motorcyclists anyhow by sand edition the special check we search another way to drive from the federal highway in the southern part of the town and to come to our villa . We find it!. You follows the street (blue marked) at the foot of the mountain Litisas of the E55 coming after the football pitch the signs to hotel Rezi and keeps always on the right, you soon lands in the Kryoneri bay and in the Ag. Athanasiou. Pay attention ! Count on oncoming traffic!

4 The white dog

So or not much differently you experiences him before, between or in the diver accessories business between the Mini-Market tutti-frutti. He, the white dog, is 11 years old and we have never experienced that he moves faster than his fur grows. His indifference towards him what goes forward round him is quite proverbial in Parga. Exactly like the statue of the Kanaris is also he a benchmark in Parga .

5 The slip hole in the Old Town

If you go on on the right from "Rudi's restaurant", you reach the Old Town. Actually, it is only to walk, but single-track dash there happily around. But jump to the side if you hear approaching something motorized!

Here pulsates the life, here are the countless shops, bars and restaurants bundled up for the traveler. It is also worthwhile to branch off here and there in the quite small alleys - also there you discovers new over and over again (and is it a hidden cash dispenser!) .

6 The Ballistiker

Patatukos Dimoulitsas dealt with Balistik. Nevertheless, his pupils pressed not the school desk, but were on ships. From him they learned how one delivers specific shots if the planks sway under the feet. And, therefore, he got on the harbour promenade in Parga near the castle mountain a bust sedately. Like the old Kanaris he also looks out to the sea.

7 The castle ruins

Mostly you have them in the field of vision - the ruins on top of the hill, during the night lights up. Incredibly and indifferently, in that what happens to theirs "to feet", she crouches on top on the rock and awaits the tourists who come there.

Traffic in Greece

Speed limitations, double locking lines and stop signs are pure recommendations, as long as no policeman is nearby. Nevertheless, the announcements of radar are no gag. Also to Greece this tiresome device has already penetrated and it is really used.

Permanent strabismus is in the agenda - once on the roadway, her grooves, rockfall holes and ground waves as well as the crumbling, hanging banquets - on the other hand, on the bushes and meadows in the roadway edge where unattended nanny goats and wild dogs appear over and over again which also cross with pleasure the roadway. The fact that they not always make it living, you sees in many animal corpses which rot in the sun.

There is also the land tortoise (in Epirus several of it freely living) which we discovered in Parga one morning, it has not created on the other side of the street, just as the pretty fox and the countless cats on the E55.


A young, before a long time in Germany living Greek with a pretty Suzuki told to us that he needed 8 months to appear himself to the slippery roadways in Greece. Another recommended us to stop better with beginning rain, to drink a coffee in rest and the streets would be the most dangerous for the first rain.

ROAD BLOCKS

Beer boxes (variations or similar like palettes, red-white tapes, chairs etc.) = Greek warning signs in the traffic. Please, follow, respect it and then let it there. Also crosswise to the roadway standing vehicles can indicate a road block.