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FP19b From Ypapanti Church, fine steps lead uphill through the settlement but then appeared to go nowhere in particular. Now however, a well-engineered old path has been cleared taking one through to connect with 19a and, more importantly, 19b. The link-up achieved in this, completes a logical, and which at one time must have been a very important, route to the ‘Bishop’s Church’. I have long thought that some such route must exist.
In the reverse direction, S-N, it is advisable to take the more southerly, trackway, route from FP18 before the Sunset Taverna & Café-Bar. (The one immediately alongside leads clearly to Spiro’s hens, but is very rough thereafter, with fallen trees adding to the challenge!)
19b skirts around the head of the major valley which drains down to Circe’s Spring at Ypapanti and onwards through the Reservoir to Lakka. It then becomes paved and stepped, though somewhat decayed in places. You emerge by a large, shuttered, ruin onto the 19a lane, just below the ‘no through road’ sign. Here 2 new villas have been built below the lane and you need to take a vehicle-track serving the back of the more westerly of these. After a very few metres a rough, stony footpath continues on, with collapsing wall on the high-side; paralleling the watercourse and gradually stepping down the contours. At the time of writing (June 2009) it has been recently cleared but new brambles are already sprouting and tree branches falling! It threads around the head of a branch valley, then bends L and heads for Ypapanti. By a walled-in ruin on L, a ‘T’ junction is reached. The RH path, walled on both sides, heads up to the road (19) with a choice of two connections.
Following the main path, L, it starts to drop down steps, passing another ruin on R – of a large house this time – with yet another short linking branch to the road – before straightening down increasingly grand steps to emerge by the Campanile.
Also in the FP19b region, Spiro’s Taverna has now sprouted a most strange, roof-top, eyrie. It affords wonderful views and is a quite different place to eat, but has done nothing for the appearance of his bungalow!
FP20. There is a new pair of bungalows by the road junction at the top, Mastorátika, end of this, well maintained, path.
FP20a My GPS plot has slightly altered - see map extract. There is a fallen tree to negotiate S of V.Samsu.
FP21a The Kipos beach track has now been both cleared of obstruction and considerably extended beachwards with parking at the end for about 4 or 5 cars. The original lay-bys remain too.
FP22 A narrow footpath half way along, going down N has been cleared. It leads only to a locked, steel gate to an olive grove.
FP22a The approach to this has been much altered by the construction of a new access track going off sharp L (N) almost opposite the first gates to the new villa on the S side of FP22. This has cut through FP22a but makes an easier access to it. Below this new bulldozed driveway, the path continues clearly paralleling the stone wall on L. All this is just beyond the transformer pole.
FP23. Peter Greaves has discovered a very pleasant, olive-grove, path which by-passes the steepest part of this track, particularly useful if you are walking uphill from one of the Daphne Villas or the coast. I have plotted it on a map extract. The lower end starts by a rock marked 118. The upper end on the bend a few metres above a rather thin electricity pole.
FP23a The S end of this path, climbing up from Kaki Langada, is now cleared and properly defined.
FP24 Above Zernatika, it is now clear (apart from undergrowth) but one needs to use the sloping, curving drive up towards the new house (2nd. above Church) to access the path. Ignore suggestive branch L and steps R. Just follow walled path until it opens out into meadow.
The drop down to the Military Road is marked by a small, red, dot on a metal waterpipe along the roadside verge. (see photo R) If missed, there is another connection c.20m further down, stepped in the bedrock.
Down behind Loggos, V.Mataxa is actually right alongside the path exit.
Since returning home, I have been told by a correspondent that there is a branch of FP24 linking Koutsi to Anemoyianátika. It is a walled (I think?) path continuing W from the track which runs round behind the Analipsi Church. Where that track ends by a house, go down steps on R then turn L at a ‘T’ junction. A recently cleared path then continues to exit on the road just S of V.Lavada. I will need to GPS it next year.
FP25&25c. The alignment of these on the Map is probably a bit too far west/south. The former red arrow marking the junction is now blue. Jana has now, I understand, cleared the path down to the stream-bed.
FP26 Kevin walked this path and found that the ‘spur’ going off E at the end of the double-walled section leads on as a path through olives with an up-slope branch heading back towards the properties on the 75m contour, though merged into the olive terracing. The down-slope branch traversed pines & junipers until it suddenly stops near some tree-clearing.
The main path continued as plotted and the climb up to the vehicle track was not too difficult being only short. A small, transient, cairn exists to mark the junction.
See Mitsialátika inset Map page 4 above.
IKB 19th. October 2009
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