{"id":2455,"date":"2021-05-23T12:57:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T09:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2022-10-08T15:20:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T12:20:53","slug":"a-freedom-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepaleochorasite.com\/bobsblog\/a-freedom-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"A Freedom Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At the beginning of April, restrictions on travel were lifted, albeit at weekends only, to allow driving \u201cfor exercise\u201d within the Chania prefecture.  We took full advantage, and on the first day possible, drove the 18km through Prodromi and on up the many ‘hairpin’ road bends to the pretty little church of Agios Ioannis, at the highest point, 800m, on the road over to Temenia.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Road From Prodromi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Agios Ioannis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

From the church, a shepherds’ road meanders east along the Armos ridge for some 3km, ending above the col\/saddle at Selada.  The landscape along here is always stunning, over and above the pine forests of the Kamaria valley to maybe a dozen small villages in a wide arc from Temenia to Livadas, above Sougia.  But on this day views were sensational.  After five months of local confinement, bliss was it to be alive, and our eyes were inevitably lifted unto the hills …<\/p>