Village square in Vourliotes

A visit to the lovely village square (platia) in Vourliotes on an early evening in May.
Vourliotes is located on the slopes of the Ambelos mountain range, high above the north coast of the island.

"Always" Pythagorion

A sunny morning in early May in the harbour of Pythagorion.

A couple of impressions from a relaxed walk - with many stops to enjoy the picturesque views - through parts of the harbour on a beautiful early morning with clear blue skies.



Video clips taken on May 8th, 2011.
Song "Always" by dutch singer/songwriter Ad Vanderveen.
Played and sung by Ad Vanderveen together with Kersten de Ligny and Dimos Kasapidis, in a spontaneous acoustic guitar session after a nice meal we had together in a tavern on Balos beach, Samos. (July 2010)

Samian dreamscapes / dreamscapes on Samos, part 1

Three years ago I thought about a series of videos showing the different landscapes of Samos island in HD quality. Not so much a video about the usual places (villages, beaches) where most of the tourists will go to, but places, that in my opinion, make Samos special for me.

In 2009/2010, excellent HD video camcorder equipment became affordable, so time was right for me to venture into the area of HD videos.

Since 1999, I have been on Samos many times, so I already had been to many beautiful spots taking photos. Now, equipped with cameras, camcorders, audio field recording eqipment and a tripod, I spent a lot of time driving around the island on a motorscooter to reach all those places I wanted to take videos of. Most of the video material was recorded during springtime on Samos. (months of May and June, 2010 and 2011).

So, 11 minutes long, here is the first part of a small series of videos about the natural beauty of the manyfold landscapes on this water-rich greek east aegean island.
And - like Ivan from Slowakia does right in the beginning of this video - jump and enjoy diving into the Samos experience!



Here is the link to the same video on YouTube!

Support the local people in Greece, e.g. on Samos island, during these hard times!
So please don't confuse watching a video about Samos with being yourself on Samos! ;-) Come and visit this year the beautiful east aegean island of Samos in Greece for a holiday!

Please, don't step in the footsteps of others! Take your time, try the new, find your own ways on Samos and discover your own dreamscapes there!

A visit to Ormos Marathókampos

Actually, it's about several visits I payed to the quiet village and especially the picturesque and peaceful harbour of Ormos Marathókampos in the south of the island over the years.

I searched my hard discs for all my digital photos of this place and found photos dating from 2004 up until 2011.


A selection of these photos I combined with videos I recorded 2010 and 2011!

So here it is, hope you will enjoy the video:
"A visit to Ormos Marathókampos":

Harbour of Pythagorio, now & then

Pythagorio harbour promenade, the area between Iliad Bar, Dolichi and Captains Bar, then (2002) and now (2010 & 2011)
What happened to the tall trees?

Pythagorio in autumn 2002

In 2002, as a visitor of "Dolichi", you had almost no view from the balcony through the trees on the harbour!
(all three photos © 2002 peter molz)


These were really nice, tall trees! Please take notice of that big tree on the site of Iliad Bar too!


Pythagorio in 2010

The balcony of Dolichi is clearly visible, the trees are small.


Pythagorio in spring 2011

Dolichi is closed down, no business there!

Ferry Nissos Mykonos / Karlovasi

The large ferry "Nissos Mykonos", serving the route between Piraeus and Vathy/Samos, filmed during stop-overs in the harbour of Karlovasi on the north coast, June 2011.

The arrivals and departures of ferries always fascinate me. Whenever possible, I like to watch them when I am on Samos island.

Musical encounters @ "Thanasis' Sister"

Way back in May I always had a nice time going to that place called "Thanasis" Sister" in the harbour of Pythagorion.
Here are some impressions of May 13th, 2011, the first day with live music for the season 2011 in that kafenion-ouzeri.

Also the first day for guitarist Alexis on the island for the season 2011.
We had a great day, lots of good things to eat and drink, and Alexis - after playing for many many hours - almost fell asleep at the end of the night while playing guitar.



Musicians (during daytime): Alexis Pappos (guitar, vocals), Vangelis (Tsouras) plus Maria Loulourgas on vocals.
Musicians (at night): Yannis Loulourgas (bouzouki, vocals), Alexis Pappos (guitar) and Makis Karavasilis (bouzouki, vocals).