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Days 50-51: Agia Anna

August 25, 2021December 10, 2021, Naxos Trip Reports
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This post is part of a series called Greek Odyssey 2021
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  • An Exciting Journey Begins
  • Touring Greece Without a Plan
  • Day 1: Crete Arrival
  • Day 2: It’s Windy in Palaiochora
  • Day 3: Palaiochora Morning Exercise
  • Day 4: Exploring South-Western Crete
  • Day 5: Grammeno Beach Again
  • Day 6: Finally the Wind Dies Down
  • Day 7: Elafonissi Beach
  • Day 8: Last Time at Grammeno Beach
  • Day 9: Last Day in Palaiochora
  • Day 10: Road Trip Across Crete
  • Day 11: Preveli and Agia Galini
  • Day 12: Phaistos and Matala
  • Day 13: Gortyn, Heraklion and Sitia
  • Day 15: Karpathos Arrival
  • Day 16: Karpathos Beach Day
  • Day 17: Karpathos Beach Day…Again
  • Day 18: Ammopi Beach by Bus
  • Day 19: Exploring Karpathos by Car
  • Day 20: Rhodes Arrival
  • Day 21: Exploring Rhodes Town
  • Day 22: Rhodes Town Beach
  • Day 23: Rhodes to Tilos
  • Day 24: Cutting Tilos Short
  • Day 25: Kos Town Beach Day
  • Day 26: Kos Car Hire
  • Day 27: Kos Beach Day Again
  • Day 28: Kos Town Hotel Move
  • Day 29: Why I’m Still on Kos
  • Day 30: Ed Arrives on Kos
  • Day 31: Boat Trip with Ed
  • Day 32: Road Trip (with Ed!)
  • Day 33: Ed Departs, I Remain
  • Days 34-36: Nothing But The Pool
  • Day 37: Back to Kos Town
  • Days 38-41: Living Life in Kos Town
  • Day 42: Visiting Tigaki
  • Day 43: Moving Hotel Room
  • Day 44: Moving Hotel Room Part 2
  • Day 45: Last Gym Session on Kos
  • Day 46: Kos Final Full Day
  • Day 47: Kos to Amorgos
  • Day 48: Amorgos to Naxos
  • Day 49: Relaxing in Agia Anna / Plaka Beach
  • Days 50-51: Agia Anna
  • Day 52: Exploring Naxos by Car
  • Day 53: Naxos to Ios
  • Day 54: Exploring South Ios Magganari Beach
  • Day 55: Ios Agia Theodoti Beach
  • Day 56: Ios Chill Day
  • Day 57: Ios Psathi Beach and Palaiokastro
  • Day 58: Ios Last Full Day
  • Day 59: Ios to Sikinos
  • Day 60: Relaxing on Sikinos
  • Day 61: Sikinos Sightseeing
  • Day 62: Sikinos to Sifnos
  • Day 63: Sifnos Cloudy First Day
  • Day 64: More Clouds Over Sifnos
  • Day 65: Sifnos Sunshine
  • Day 66: Mum and Dad Arrive on Sifnos
  • Day 67: Mum and Dad’s First Full Day on Sifnos
  • Day 68: Bus Trip to Apollonia
  • Day 69: Sun, Sand and Sea on Sifnos
  • Day 70: Exploring Sifnos by Car
  • Day 71: More Sifnos Sightseeing
  • Day 72: Our Last Full Day
  • Day 73: Homeward Bound
  • Greek Odyssey 2021: Retrospective

Tuesday 24th – Wednesday 25th August 2021

A Slight Lack of Foresight

In my haste to secure accommodation after my unintentional extended stay on Kos, I hadn’t really considered that Naxos doesn’t have much more to offer me in terms of exploration. Having visited many times already, there wasn’t much I wanted to do with my time on the island, nor did I want the expense of hiring a car. As a result, I’ve condensed these two days into a single update, as I spent my time mostly relaxing in Agia Anna.

Tuesday 24th August

In an effort to mix things up just a tiny bit, I spent the early part of the morning in my room finishing off the Kos and Amorgos YouTube videos and enjoying a relaxed breakfast. I headed down to the beach at 11 am, but instead of finding a place to lay on the sand, I spotted a nice quiet pool at a place between Peppermint and the campsite in Maragas. I think it belongs to the Angeliki Apartments situated behind. It appeared to be free to use and I took advantage of the campsite shop next door to buy a cheap drink, some crisps and a doughnut as a snack lunch.

For most of the day, I was the only person at the pool, except for a few occasions where people would arrive and spend a few minutes swimming before heading off again. It was really chilled out and I enjoyed lazing on the comfortable sunbeds soaking up the hot afternoon sun. At 5 pm, I decided to pack up and walk north across the beach (past the nudist area) and around the headland to the patch of sand and rocks at the southwestern edge of Agia Anna beach.

On previous visits, this area is usually crammed with people laying out on the rocks or the few patches of sand, but today it was nearly deserted so I couldn’t resist throwing my towel down, taking a dip in the calm shallow waters of the sheltered bay, and then stretching out on the sand for a bit longer.

Eventually, the sun got low enough in the sky that the sandy area was partly shaded, so I picked up my towel and strolled back towards the hotel, glad to be past the heat of the day so it was a much more pleasant walk.

Having snacked through the afternoon, I decided to save money and skip dinner, spending the evening on more YouTube video work as well as updating these blog notes.

Wednesday 25th August

This was the day I realised I hadn’t planned Naxos very well and a hint of boredom was setting in. Usually, I love relaxing at the beach doing nothing, but I’ve never been in Greece this long before and had already done quite a lot of relaxing these past few weeks – so much so that my bum was actually starting to ache from so much time spent laying on a sunbed!!

With this in mind, I decided to swallow the expense and see about hiring a car for tomorrow so I could spend my last full day out of Agia Anna doing some exploring. I was confident of coming up with an itinerary that would keep me occupied for the day and would include places I’ve not yet visited.

Back to today, though. I spent the early part of the morning down at the beach in a similar spot to Monday. I saw a Mexican restaurant called Picasso and stopped in with the hope of getting food, only to be told they don’t start serving lunch until 1 pm, so I sat and had a beer instead. I then migrated next door to Peppermint and had a nice club sandwich and Freddo Espresso (to balance out the beer), then used their sunbeds for a couple of hours.

On my way back to the hotel, I stopped at a rental shop called Motopower and reserved a small car for tomorrow. It was, as I expected, pretty expensive at €55 for the day, but I didn’t have much choice if I wanted to explore so I paid up and continued back to my room.

Around 7 pm, I returned to the village for dinner and chose a place called Deoudas to the northern end of Agia Anna. According to TripAdvisor, their moussaka is very good so I was keen to put it to the test! Verdict… pretty good! It came in an individual bowl which was a great start and tasted very nice – not too much aubergine and plenty of meat and potato. I still don’t think it quite beat the one in Agia Galini, but it was the closest one I’ve tried since then.

Delicious Moussaka at Deoudas in Agia Galini

Feeling pleased with my dinner choice, I treated myself to some Baklava for dessert which was also very good, though I hadn’t expected it to come out hot, it was covered in honey and tasted great (see top photo).

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Tagged Agia Anna, Baklava, Birbas, Deoudas, Motopower, Moussaka, Peppermint, Picasso
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