{"id":8417,"date":"2018-03-10T11:03:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T10:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/?p=8417"},"modified":"2025-12-08T07:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:00:22","slug":"athens-to-stuttgart-road-trip-part-5-from-neraida-to-agios-germanos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/athens-to-stuttgart-road-trip-part-5-from-neraida-to-agios-germanos\/","title":{"rendered":"Athens to Stuttgart Road Trip Part 5 \u2013 From Neraida to Agios Germanos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Neraida<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Neraida in the offseason. We were the only guests at our hotel and probably the only ones in the town. So it was quite in the night – I love the offseason! There was no breakfast at the hotel, so we took off and continued towards our next destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"View <\/picture>
View from the balcony<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"View <\/picture>
View from the balcony towards the village square<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

\"Along <\/picture>
Along the square<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Nice <\/picture>
Nice paint job<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hmmm....\" <\/picture>
Hmmm….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the Road again<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"Old <\/picture>
Old Mercedes truck in Vathylakkos<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Kastoria<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We stopped for breakfast in Kastoria. After that, we walked a bit along the lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"View <\/picture>
View over the lake in Kastoria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Some <\/picture>
Some old war thing in monument<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hello <\/picture>
Hello Pretty<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Fishing <\/picture>
Fishing boat at the lake<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Winter <\/picture>
Winter is coming – they enjoy the last few nice days<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"It <\/picture>
It looks very peaceful but the city is behind me, and so is all the traffic and the people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"We <\/picture>
We walked a bit along the lake to stretch our legs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Nice <\/picture>
Nice colours<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"From <\/picture>
From the good old times when they had an Eagle with two heads on the shield to automatic weapons<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Of <\/picture>
Of course, he needs to be here as well<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s get moving!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"On <\/picture>
On the E86 outside of Prespes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mountains, <\/picture>
Mountains, blue sky, and a few white clouds<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prespa Lake<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The bigger one is shared between Albania, Greece, and the Republic of Macedonia. The small one is only shared between Greece and Albania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Small <\/picture>
Small Prespa Lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Prespa <\/picture>
Prespa Lake – kind of the Golden Triangle down here<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Prespa <\/picture>
Prespa Lake<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Back <\/picture>
Back from fishing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"We <\/picture>
We tried to get all the way out to see the two other countries<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"But <\/picture>
But we only got to here, so there is the Republic of Macedonia on the other side :-)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hungry <\/picture>
Hungry cat – and not only was she hungry – Mitsos was hungry as well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Nice <\/picture>
Nice lunch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mitsos <\/picture>
Mitsos – not hungry anymore. Time to hit the road again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Small <\/picture>
Small Prespa Lake<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agios Germanos<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our destination for the night is today. A small village at the end of the road. We stayed at the Agios Germanos Traditional Hotel<\/a>. I can only recommend this small hotel. Food was excellent and so was the room!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Town <\/picture>
Town center Agios Germanos<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Evening <\/picture>
Evening stroll in Agios Germanos<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The <\/picture>
The old houses are built with wood and clay<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Usually <\/picture>
If they had more money, they used to build more of the house with stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Some <\/picture>
Some have the wall on the side built with stones all the way to the roof<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"This <\/picture>
This one does not look too bad<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Some <\/picture>
Some of them are lucky! The new owner fixed this one up again<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"One <\/picture>
One of the few built with stones on every side. Guess that is why it survived so far<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Agios <\/picture>
Agios Germanos is all the way up the mountains where the road ends. It is a quite place<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

\"I <\/picture>
I wonder if the hills were green at some point<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agios Germanos Traditional Hotel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"His <\/picture>
His favorite pastime besides diving<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Weiss <\/picture>
Weiss Beer! And it was good!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The <\/picture>
The Bar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dinner\" <\/picture>
Dinner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neraida Neraida in the offseason. We were the only guests at our hotel and probably the only ones in the town. So it was quite in the night – I love the offseason! There was no breakfast at the hotel, so we took off and continued towards our next destination. View from the balcony View…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8416,"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":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[708,224,130,712],"tags":[709,463,24,713],"class_list":["post-8417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agios-germanos","category-europe","category-greece-travel","category-neraida","tag-agios-germanos","tag-europe","tag-greece","tag-neraida"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rx.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\/03\/rx.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417","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=8417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14320,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417\/revisions\/14320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}