Last summer, after a week in Skiathos, we rented a car from Volos and toured for a couple of days the villages of Pelion. We went to Makrinitsa, Portaria and Hania, the villages closer to Volos. My favourite was Makrinitsa. It had beautiful stone houses on the slopes of the hills that overlooked the green mountainside but the top was the square: truly like a balcony of Volos! You have the most gorgeous view of Volos and its port, and the view is equally beautiful in day and night with all those small lights beneath.
The nature in
Pelion is so green and I was surprised that water would run so fresh and so free from springs and waterfalls!! A traditional house under the square of Makrinitsa works as a museum and some kind ladies showed us the house that had inside all the nice wooden furniture and old clothes. The ground floor had a large living room where they received guests. A wooden stairs led to the top floor, which had two bedrooms, a kitchen and another room that worked as olive oil and wine press. I was surprised that the bathroom was not in the house, but I was told that people used to build the bathroom outside the house for hygiene reasons.
Portoria and Hania were also nice, but spent less time there than in Makrinitsa. Everywhere on the roads, we could find small open shops that sold spoon sweets and driks. We bought a jar with green apple spoon sweet and finished it in a single afternoon. Delicious!
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