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		<title>February/March News</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Parsons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ancient sites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[path clearing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Retsina Trail]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Chris Stofel from Austria arrived via Workaway. A landscape garden by profession, he had a lot of hiking experience, loved flora and fauna, could handle a chainsaw and made You Tube videos about his adventures! After doing a bit of &#8230; <a href="https://skopelos-walks.com/february-march-news/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tzilali/Kriavrissi Karya (part II)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Parsons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Karia trail]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Together with Austrian Workaway volunteer Chris, nine days were spent working on this 1.40km Gorge during February. If there was man-made trail, we cleared it; even one portion that is sandwiched between two huge landslides, thus rendering it somewhat redundant &#8230; <a href="https://skopelos-walks.com/tzilali-kriavrissi-karya-part-ii/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Tzilali/Karya Gorge</title>
		<link>https://skopelos-walks.com/the-tzilali-karya-gorge/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Parsons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ancient sites]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[water and springs]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has long been my ambition to get this abandoned but previously well-used route reopened. Being the main way to the kalivia of the Karya area, it was once in regular use. The mules would be loaded up and everyone &#8230; <a href="https://skopelos-walks.com/the-tzilali-karya-gorge/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A SHORT GUIDE TO THE MONASTERIES</title>
		<link>https://skopelos-walks.com/a-short-guide-to-the-monasteries/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Parsons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Karia trail]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are 14 monasteries on Skopelos. All are Orthodox. Five are inhabited and open to the public. They are closed between 2pm and 5pm. Four are privately owned. The others are closed, disused or ruins. Nearly all have nearby fresh &#8230; <a href="https://skopelos-walks.com/a-short-guide-to-the-monasteries/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>SKOPELOS IN RUINS</title>
		<link>https://skopelos-walks.com/skopelos-in-ruins/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Parsons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 12:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Ancient sites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[#greektravel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[#skopelos]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It all began with Stafilos, who was probably a Cretan prince, sent to Skopelos by king Minos in the 16th century BC. He is believed to have been the son of Dionysos and Ariadni, brother to Oinopion, Thoas and Peparethos. &#8230; <a href="https://skopelos-walks.com/skopelos-in-ruins/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>October news</title>
		<link>https://skopelos-walks.com/october-news/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Parsons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 13:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Another busy month. Firstly Ariside &#38; Camille arrived from France. We continued reopening the path at the mill and removed vast amounts of foliage. We have done all we can from the plane tree to the watermill aqueduct. We then &#8230; <a href="https://skopelos-walks.com/october-news/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Route 12 between Polimistria &#038; Kambos</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Parsons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2019 06:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since the beginning of September, we have been working on the trail between the Polimistria church Raxes and Petrovrissi Kambos. This trail is now open but between the two points there&#8217;s a bulldozed road which cuts across it. Due to &#8230; <a href="https://skopelos-walks.com/route-12-between-polimistria-kambos/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Temple of Athena</title>
		<link>https://skopelos-walks.com/the-temple-of-athena/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Parsons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[romans]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[With the help of wonderful volunteers Evelyn &#38; Andreas from Belgium, we worked for a week to clear this ancient site to make it attractive and visible to visitors. A sign is being made and will be placed near the &#8230; <a href="https://skopelos-walks.com/the-temple-of-athena/">Continued</a>]]></description>
		
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