Perivolas
Worth visiting!
A review of this place: Did honeymoon at Perivolas... go! — 1 year ago
OK, in a nutshell….this is a very soulful place! You’ll remember it forever. We did our honey moon there a few years ago. I would recommend going from September 20 to October 20…somewhere in there, for no more than a week or ya might get bored. At that time, the weather is still good, but the season is winding down….less tourists. Definitely don’t go from end of October up until Spring!! Cold, cloudy, and CLOSED!
At Perivolas, don’t take your mother or your school buddy, if you’re a guy. Take your sweety. Romantic. Your little room is on a cliff and the door is basically a curtain where the wind blows off the Aegean…very very quiet and relaxing. Every room gives a panorama.
A story we tell: walk down the big stairway to the ocean from the town there (Oea is name of town) one early evening and there will be a family-owned Taverna. Pick your eye-balled fish and the smiling lady hands it to her brother (or husband or whatever) who prepares the fish at the edge of the pier and throws it onto the
BBQ. Turn on some music and they’ll dance… and you’ll dance… hardly anyone there…they love visitors…
Heaven…
Perivolas is top-notch and fairly expensive place…but clean and simple..it’s the real estate you’re paying for… a small swimming pool that seems to blend into the sea, though very high above it… they had a dog there named Murray… bound to be dead and gone by now…who would follow you to town and back…
don’t buy drinks at Perivolas…bring your own booze, I say… a mixed drink was 10 to 12 dollars… geez…
oh I hate to say this, but bring YOUR own mosquito spray… all they have in Greece is those crazy citronella things and they don’t work… a mild OFF bug spray with a bit of DEAT (DEET?) sp?
will keep them off you, but, it’s not that bad…don’t worry about it.. GO!
Oh another ABSOLUTE MUST on the Island is (and there ain’t much to do so listen up!)
Akrotiri… archealogical ruins…unbelievable! Thought to be the basis for mythical Atlantis. Being slowly and painstankingly excavated. And I would say, take a drive into the remote countryside and bump into the townsfolk.