Bournaos Cafe is the meeting point at the center of the island where locals and tourists stop for a Greek coffee, a tsipouro or a spoon of local desert. Amazing interior with few tables and all the original decorative items from the last 50 years (maybe more?). There is also a very nice garden with a pergola covered with a vine and few tables. It's reputation makes it one of the ten most popular traditional cafe in Greece. Every morning...
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Lakka Lighthouse - Faros The lighthouse of Lakka or 'Faros' as the locals called is located in the northwest point of the island, 1 km far from Lakka. It is a 3 bedroom ground stone house and a stone built tower. The main house and the tower was built in 1825 and in 1865 included in the Greek lighthouse network. 50 years later the ground fell and both buildings declared uninhabitable. New building construction finally finished in 1916 and entered into...
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“Tsiknopempti” is the name of the day in Greece that marks the official start of the carnival festivities. The day is celebrated on a Thursday and consists of the words “tsikna” (smell of burning food) and Pempti (which is Greek for Thursday). According to the Greek Orthodox tradition, the people who await the fourty-day fast before Easter and who respect the weekly fasts of Wednesday and Friday, have this particular Thursday to eat as much meat as they want and to...
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