Kos

After 5 weeks was time to move on, managed to escape Kalymnos before a big storm set in but got trapped on Kos instead.  After a couple of days managed to get in a ferry to Bodrum and after night drove to antalya.

Kmos- climbing at arhi

Pumpy Climb on nice big tufas

Kalymnos team un

With very few climbers still around formed team un and loaded up the space wagon to hit the distant crags.

Kalymnos photos

Our friendly turtle. Crag with a castle. Local boats.

Kalymnos-telendos

Views from rest days trips

Kalymnos

Arrived on Kalymnos and set up camp for 5 weeks at evagelia's studios, Ours closest on the end

Athens

Checked out the sights of Athens. Visited the acropolis and it's museum. Stayed in Piraeus so was easy to get a boat overnight to Kalymnos.

Elefesina then athens

Spent a couple of nights here before heading to Athens, replaced a fuel line on the far-reaching thanks toyota  :-)

Leonidio

Drove out to the east coast of the Peloponnesian peninsula to see leonidio - soon to be the New Kalymnos according to some locals. Hard fantastic meal at local souvlaki joint while watching olympiakos play. Then headed towards Athens.

Lagada

Headed to lagada next to catch up with George and the crew from patras. Spent a few days at this crag, great spot and very nice climbing. Also did a few days sight seeing around Sparta.

Kardamyli

After a few days in nedousa headed down the coast to kardamyli to check out a sea cliff with a new crag on it. Met the guy George who was doing all the work  fixing the crag up. Made dinner on the top of the cliff and sampled the local spirit.

Nedousa

After messina, spent time climbing near kalamata at nedousa

Old messina

On the way to kalamata checked out the ruins of messina

Portes

Spent the week climbing at portes, with a side trip to Delphi. Awesome looking crags everywhere. Then headed to Patras via a funky bridge onto the Peloponnesian peninsula.

Alpechori

Spent 3 days climbing at alpechori near partras before meeting some locals who took us out on the town and we got to see local band sancho 003 play.

Russel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YR4CseY9pk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Meteora to amfissa

After a quick nip into Albania and back headed to meteora for a few days before meeting local guide Nikos who took to his own crag of portes.

Headed to greece

Rain seemed to keep knocking on the door so headed to Greece via brindisi and the ferry. Had an amazing electrical storm at the port

Abruzzo

From went west to abruzzo region. Found a nice spot to stay for a few days run by an English couple who had moved out there for a change of lifestyle. Checked out climbing areas - roccamarice, pennapiedamonte and Pennaduomo. Tried the local specialities like rostacini.