{"id":8310,"date":"2018-02-24T11:47:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T10:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/?p=8310"},"modified":"2025-12-09T05:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:31:33","slug":"athens-to-stuttgart-road-trip-part-3-athens-to-kalabaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/athens-to-stuttgart-road-trip-part-3-athens-to-kalabaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Athens to Stuttgart Road Trip Part 3 – Athens to Kalabaka\u2069"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a few lazy days in Athens, it was time to hit the road. The car is old, and the seats are really shitty. There was no music, only the radio – and no way to connect the iPhone. And even if – Mitsos has one of the worst tastes in music there is. So that part of the trip was horrible. The good part of the trip: Landscape – lots of it out there, and we had blue sky for almost all the trip! On top of that, it was off-season, so no tourists, and since we took the small back roads, not a lot of traffic. Great!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Close <\/picture>
Close to Tanagra\u2069<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Close <\/picture>
Close to Thiva\u2069<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Somewhere <\/picture>
Somewhere after Xyniada\u2069<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Close <\/picture>
Close to Makryrrachi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Not <\/picture>
Not a lot of traffic outside of Xyniada\u2069<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Don't <\/picture>
Don’t you love this roads?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sheeps <\/picture>
Sheep not too far from Tamasio\u2069<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The <\/picture>
The first of many trucks hauling cotton. You see the white cotton next to the road!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cotton <\/picture>
Cotton County close to Menelaida\u2069<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Big <\/picture>
Big Sky!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cotton <\/picture>
Cotton trailer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cotton <\/picture><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Happy <\/picture>
Happy Mitsos – finally on the road!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Monument <\/picture>
Monument in Trikala town for those who fought at Hill 731
Italy declared war on Greece after its refusal to let Italian troops pass the land. One of the greatest battles was from 9th to the 26th of March 1941, and it was for the “Hill 731” located 20 Kilometres north of Kleisoura at Tepeleni, Albania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Monument <\/picture><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Waiting <\/picture>
Waiting for the Italians to charge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Follow <\/picture>
Back on the road again. Follow the sun, he said!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"More <\/picture>
More cotton fields<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The <\/picture>
The usual procedure – small vehicles bring the harvest to the big trucks<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"And <\/picture>
And with the big truck, it goes to the factories<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Close <\/picture>
Close to Kallifono<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"From <\/picture>
From time to time a cotton truck slows down traffic. But most of the time there is no traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"After <\/picture>
After Karditsa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mitsos <\/picture>
Mitsos never stops eating<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The <\/picture>
The sun is low<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"And <\/picture>
And casts a nice shadow over the fields<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"More <\/picture>
More nice clouds before Sellanoi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Finally <\/picture>
Finally dinner in Kalabaka\u2069<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"After <\/picture>
After dinner, we found the best place in Kalabaka\u2069 and had more food and some drinks with new friends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a few lazy days in Athens, it was time to hit the road. The car is old, and the seats are really shitty. There was no music, only the radio – and no way to connect the iPhone. And even if – Mitsos has one of the worst tastes in music there is. So…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kb_optimizer_status":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[705,224,130,132],"tags":[26,463,24,706],"class_list":["post-8310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kalabaka","category-europe","category-greece-travel","category-kythira-greece-travel-travel","tag-athens","tag-europe","tag-greece","tag-kalabaka"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ard.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Marc Hastenteufel","author_link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/author\/marc\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ard.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14324,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310\/revisions\/14324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}