My name is Stefan Isarie and I am professional client side developer living in Iasi, Romania.Paralia Katerini, Greece
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Some of you already know that we spent our Easter Holiday in Greece at Paralia Katerini. We are back, packed with amazing memories and pictures. To see some of them, please click on the banner below! The comments are in Romanian only. Sorry for those of you not understanding Romanian.
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A few facts in our trip:
- Our first time off Romania!
- The Romanian agency which organised the trip: Travis
- Transport to and from Greece was made with a bus. We had 2 drivers who proved to be heighly professionals! They were drive fast and safe, and they knew how to deal with Bulgarian authorities
- Total time on the road to Greece: 27 hours
- The country that left us with an unpleasant taste: Bulgaria
- Total time spent on the Greek duane: 5 hours. We stayed 5 hours because of the traffic [ houndreds of cars and tens of buses and just few workers - I have seen only 5-8 workers! ]
- The Greek agency which organised [bad] all the events and trips in Paralia Katerinis: Dolce Vita
- Number of optional trips we took: 2 - Meteora Monasteries and Skiathos Island
- Number of optional events we took: 1 - Easter Festive
- The biggest surprise I had in Paralia Katerinis: finding Edi Popa, one of my friends who lives in Iasi, like me, I have not seen for quite a long time
- The traditional food impressed me so much: Kalamari. We also had: Tsatsiki, Souvlaki, Baclava, Gyros Pita
- Olives found on the markets were impressive good and tasteful
May 20th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
hey, great gallery, great pictures, great country and i bet you had a great time there !
hope you get to go again soon
July 10th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Katerini has a nice park and wonderful country nearby. Not only Mount Olympus, but to the West of the city the hills and mountains of Pieria. Good food - the restaurants are not expensive - and a lively pavement cafe life from around 11 am onwards (except for the afternoon nap - 3 to 6 pm.) Shopping is better value in Salonika and the coastal resorts to the south such as Platamonas and Leptokarya are more attractive. Paralia is fine if you have small kids - lots of sand - and good discos for those who enjoy the night life. It’s best seen by night, actually! The architecture scores 0 out of 10. This is also true of the town, but then it is for most modern Greek towns. The hotels are not as cheap as they used to be, but you can find value if you look around.
Some of the villages are much more attractive - take the road up the mountain pass to Elassona from the West of the town and visit Agios Dimitrios and Livadi, a charming town of around 7,000 inhabitants (not much in the way of restaurants, though!) or Litochoro to the South(good restaurants). The ruins of the Ancient City of Dion, Alexander the Great’s training camp, should not be missed.
To summarise - a good centre for visiting a beautiful, almost undiscovered part of the world!
July 10th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
Like the gallery, and I only speak a little Romanian. I was in your home town the other week, on business, and stayed at the Hotel Moldova. The best bit though was the view from my room of the castle!! Fantastic, like something out of a fairytale.
Im off to Skiathos, Greece soon, Ill send your regards.
Best………….
August 3rd, 2006 at 9:40 pm
wonderfull city,nicest people and a great country.i was three times and i just enjoyed.i visited many parts of greece but what i liked the most was meteora and pireus.
restaurants from paralia and olimpic beach are great and all the coffee shops from katerini are great too.
about the people-in a word are ok.the men are nice but they remaind me a little from the turkish…who visited istambul know what i mean….
another word-hotels are not so great but if you dont look luxury is ok -if not beter is to go to halkidiki.
April 20th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Thessalonki is extremly close to Katerini, which is the secong largest city in Greece! It has a great vew of the oceans anywhere in the area! The beaches have a slow, cool slide to it. There are not that many waves in the oceans. The restaurants have splended, marvelous food that will fill you up for the night. They also have great hotels, that lighten up in the night. It’s very relaxing in the night down near the oceans and in the morning you can hear all the birds chirping, the clouds swaying here to there, and the oceans tide slighty crashing against the shore. Kateini is a beautiful town at the base of Mount Olympus that faces the Aegea Sea. tHE town has a population of 56,576 people. Its history goes back to the very beginning of Greece history as the city of Dion was one of the first Macedonian cities. Katerini is a very small city, and has great villages with distinct warmth, you will not find in any other city! Katerini and its great sites, is definetly worth a long visit!
February 18th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Did any one came across organic bakery in Katerini? If so do you remember the name?
February 25th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Come in the greek island of Thassos.Here you can find the sea and the mountains at the same place.In the beautiful gulf of Skala Potamia you can find the best accomodation ever seen.Visit the website http://www.thassos.us