Evia, as green as England

After touring across the peninsula Pillion, the land of the Centauers, what has many many cliffs and its roads demand a lot of daring to drive them... I had to go in reverse down the bendy roads many times to let a big lorry thro'. Driving there is mostly in 2nd gear and sometimes 1st gear was needed to get up hill. The West side of Pillion is a relaxter driving in 3rd or 4th gear is fine.

The Centauers... half man, half horse, are creatures from Greek mythology. It's believed that they're created as such as the horsmen from Pillion hardly stepped down from their horses back... that remark reminded me of the young Cretan horseman!

Anyway after Pillion I drove up to Evia, the 2nd large island of Greece (Crete is its largest island). At Chalkida the old and the new bridge let you enter this island from the mainland (no toll demanded here!)

My guidebook for Greece, by Henrik Scholte, named the Northern half of Evia as "an English Garden so green" So I drove up North from Chalkida and enjoyed the ever changing landscape and greens!

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