Eating and drinking in Styra

Whilst we were in Nea Styra we stayed in Hotel Sunday, the modern building on the left of this picture. They did own the Neo-Classical building on the right as well, the ground floor serving as the bar of the hotel - I don't know about the rest of the building. It's a boutique hotel and it's wonderful - we loved our room.

This was the view from our balcony

We had breakfast here - at the front of the hotel, an area that was open when the weather is good, but could be closed off with glass in winter or when it got chilly.

We had our pre-dinner drinks here. As I said in my previous post, we walked to Kefala on our first day, saw this place, like dit, so came back in the afternoon. The next day we tried somewhere else, but did not like it as much, so, this place, Ammos, became our place every afternoon.

There were lots of other bars of course, but as it was the end of season, some had closed and some had this 'end of season' feeling. This place was perfect.

It was by the sea, which was an added bonus

with excellent views.

Dusk was lovely

and some people still went for a swim.

The other place we tried was Iliovasilema (Sunset) at the other end of the village.

When we first sat down, we sat behind this tree, to shield our eyes from the sun as it was shining directly on our faces

but then we moved to the table on the far right in this photograph

and watched the sun set

and then this weird black cloud moved in.

When we went to the village of Styra, we sat here, at this traditional kefeneion for our pre-dinner drinks

Our favourite place for lunch was this

Sarde...litsa which means little sardine, but it's also a play with words, too difficult to explain

it's right by the sea

This is the path right below where we sat, that leads from the bungalows to the village

 

and most days we had a visitor who sat on a branch right above my head

We also had lunch here, To Akrogiali, the Seashore

with great views, right ahead of us. We sat right at the back to be away from the sun, as did most people, but this couple obviously did not mind

On that first evening when we walked to Kefala we wanted to go and eat at Matina's, a favourite from the times when we used to come to Styra every summer, but it was disappointing - there was no one there, probably because it was the end of the season, but anyway, we did not fancy it. So, we went next door to Meidanis which was also deserted, only one other table was occupied, but we had good views of the village. 

O Nikos, (the spelling, I know) became our favourite for the evenings: the food was good, and it was always busy, which unfortunately, many places were not, due to it being the end of season

I had yet again, a visitor one evening, right above my head.

When we visited Styra we wanted to eat at Christos', a place we used to frequent quite often, where we had wonderful nights, where they served the best chips and where Ken talked about music with Christos, the owner. The place was still there, but it was not Christos' anymore, I should have asked what happend to Christos, as I should have taken some photographs of the taverna, but I did neither. So, no memories. Instead, I have posted a picture of the lit up church which is exactly opposite where we sat. 

This is a picture of the place I took earlier, and this is where we sat. Anyway, the place is now run by three women, the food was very good and we had a wonderful time.