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Changes to Walking Routes
(4th Edition):
9 April 2011
Walk 19: Petri to Stipsi
This walk has been blocked where it leaves the road at Petri by a high wire fence and locked gate. We are trying to get the gate unlocked, or find an alternative route. Meanwhile we regret that it is not possible to follow this walk.
18 June 2011
Waymarks:
Blue paint arrows and waymarks have appeared along several of our routes. These have nothing to do with us, and should be treated with caution. We try to avoid this kind of rural graffiti wherever possible, preferring to rely on clear and detailed route descriptions in the book.
Changes to Walking Routes
(3rd Edition):
All revisions up to October 2009 are now in 'Update 2010' & 'Herziene Uitgave 2010'
and available to download from those pages.
Roads
Kalloni - Mitilene
Ten years after the widening and improvement of the first section of the main road
from Kalloni to Mitilene, work has started on a by-pass for Lambou Mili, the one remaining bottle-neck.
Meanwhile there has been a rethink of part of the Kalloni-Lambou Mili section through the forest, where the road has been widened and re-aligned*; and major work has now been completed on the section along the Gulf of Gera.
There is also a new spur on the approach to Mitilene by-passing the town and leading to the coast road near the power station.
And now, work is going on along the stretch across the head of the Gulf of Kalloni between the junctions to Agia Paraskevi and Polichnitos, apparently with the intention of converting it to a dual-carriageway.
One day maybe it will all be finished.
*The new dirt road at the top of the hill at the Lambou Mili end of this section
runs north to the coast road near Nees Kydonies, and has been built to serve
the island's long-awaited (and 75% EU-financed) new rubbish disposal plant.
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