Georgioupolis walk book - updates and corrections 2003
(Please note that the Georgioupolis and Rethymnon books were updated and combined in late 2007 - see Walks in Rethymnon and Georgioupolis.)
Many of the dirt tracks mentioned in this book have now been given an asphalt surface.
Georgioupolis to Kavros page4, paragraph 6
There is now a straightforward crossing for the Delfinas stream - follow the track (much of which is now asphalted) that runs parallel with the motorway towards Kavros. This track swings right, under the motorway, to the south side, from where a narrow road bridge crosses the stream and leads into Kavros.
Walk 1 page 5-6
With increasing traffic on the Georgioupolis-Exopolis road, Alternate Option B is probably a preferred route. See below.
Walk 1 page 6, paragraph 3
The dog sign at the Time Disco has now gone, and the dirt track has been extended a little, but the route is still there and marked in places with blue dots.
Walk 1 page 6, paragraph 4
The start of the path to Likotinara, above Georgia's, has now been bulldozed into a steep dirt track, but the path continues at the top of this.
Walk 1 page 7, paragraph 3
The 'original path' to Likotinara has been bulldozed and replaced by a concrete track.
Walk 2 page 9, paragraph 3
The rubbish dump has now gone!
Walk 2 page 10, paragraph 2
The church of Agios Andonios was indeed built around a giant carob tree, which was burned down in 1986.
Walk 5 page 15, paragraph 4
You no longer need to go through the field on the faint path. Stay with the dirt track - where it drops steeply down to the right, go briefly left and up to join an asphalt road. Turn right and this is the track going downhill to the motorway.
Walk 5 page 15, paragraph 4
Where the track climbs steeply inland, this is now a surfaced road. Where the road surface ends at a gateway, go through and fork left onto the slightly better of two dirt tracks. Coming up to the top of the track, the track peters out a line of trees. About 15m before it does so, turn left through an entrance in a broken-down wall, into a field with grapevines. Go straight across the field to another opening on the other side. The onward path comes to a very low wall, swings right and then left – going immediately left of some large, very dense olive trees. Immediately after the trees, it swings right and up towards a gateway. Go through the gateway and the path swings left and up onto a ridge, under the low branches of some trees. Follow to the right, up the ridge and at the crest a more obvious path leads onward to the right, and into the fenced-in path in paragraph 5.
Walk 5 page 15, paragraph 6
The ruins have now disappeared from view under vegetation.
Walk 5 page 16, end of paragraph 3
Despite the road sign, the distance to Georgioupolis is nearer 6km than 4km.
Walk 6 page 18, paragraph 3
This section of path is now very difficult due to fencing and to substantial overgrowth of shrubs. It is suggested that you use the Alternative route to Mathes instead - however, see below.
Walk 6 page 19, paragraph 2
The path from the 'disused house' has now been blocked. Go right, to the house, but swing right with a less used dirt track just before it. This track takes you down, to fork left, and then down again, to reach a small, narrow, flat-bottomed valley. Go left alongside a fence and then along the open valley floor to the end, where it passes some tall rocks and evergreen trees on the right and joins a broader valley (right). Go through a fence opening and up to the left of centre, to a broken-down section of the next fence. This leads through to a flattish scree-bed under a maple tree. A vague path leads over the crest and down the rocky ridge, towards the left-hand end of a large, deep bowl-like depression. From the far bank of this end of the bowl, a path climbs up to the left, over the ridge and then down to the right. This is overgrown in places but as it descends goes towards the edge of the larger hill to the right. It becomes much clearer on the flank of this hill, then swings sharply back left to connect with the radio mast at the top of Mathes village. From here, join the road down through Mathes and turn left by the church and Mathes taverna, for Georgioupolis.
© Lance Chilton 2003