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Sunday 11.00 am


24th April 2016

      
Limni
Vouliagmenis

         
AH3

Run 1950

 
         
 


Trail lengths
Runners: 7.1 km
Walkers: 5.8 km

  
     
Hare
Pussy Basher


Starting location:

37.807952, 23.784586

 
         

Photos: Mad Dog & Rear Entry

Web page: Mad Dog

 

 

The Trail


Parking and Circle

 



The runner's trail - From Pussy Basher's Garmin GPS watch

 

The walker's trail - from Mad Dog's iPhone Strava app.

 

The walker's trail - altitude profile (mirror image because returned the same way)

 


Hi-altitude view

 

Before the run

 

The hare steps forward to describe his trail

 

Flat, short, no falsies ... it's all fibs

 

The Run and Walk

The runners (in front) and the walkers set off from the car park

 

    >>>>> View from the Walk - Panoramic view >>>> SCROLL RIGHT >>>>

View of the thermal lake

 

Swimming and sunbathing in April

 

Doggy Style and Coke Dealer

 

The walkers

 


The walkers (including Mad Dog with a foot injury)

 

 


Impressive and scenic hairpin bends

 

Fair Cop taking a short cut back

 


Rear Entry with hare Pussy Basher

 

Runners and walkers meet up for a group photo

 

The Circle

 

The hare's down-down

 

 

 

Returnee from the past (Flesh Gordon or Jim-Jim's cousin)

 

 

The two FRB's - Rear Entry and Pussy Basher

 

 

Short Cutter RA Fair Cop

 

Even Wet Dream gets a down-down

 

The Taverna

The Psaraki (or little fish) taverna

 

Doggie Style giving the order to the waiter

 

The first two of four bottles of ouzo we drank

 

Clitoria poses with bottles 3 and 4

 

Mixed vegie plate of fried eggplant, aubergines, mushrooms, peppers

 

Mussels cooked in their shells - very tasty

 

Gavros

 

Taverna business cards (they also serve meat dishes)

 

Taverna menu

 

 

 

 

The directions to the hash - for the record

Sunday 24 April – 11am

Hare:  Pussy Basher

Venue: Limni [Lake] Vouliagmeni - run starts at the car park above the lake

On Inn:  Fish taverna ψαρακι sxarapsaraki.gr/index.php/en

You could bring your swimmers if the weather is good!

 

DIRECTIONS to the start of the run: 

 

go South hashers!

 

Get onto either Leoforos Poseidonos, Leoforos Vouliagmenis or Leoforos Varis and head South for the coast. Once out of town you will pass through the suburb of VOULA and just carry on driving by the coast.

From where Leoforos Poseidonos, Leoforos Vouliagmenis and Leoforos Varis converge the distance to the Lake is 3.4k [see snip below]

Follow signs for Limni Vouliagmenis – you will need to turn off left, there is a road leading down to the lake do not take this but find the car park just off the main road.

See attachments for more info.

 

Public transport:

Red line metro to Elliniko then catch the 122 bus outside the station and it will drop you off next to the lake on the opposite the road.

 

For Sat Navvies:

Decimal Deg : 37.807952 , 23.784586
Deg Min Sec : 37° 48' 28,6272"N , 23° 47' 4,5096"E

 

IF LOST - YOU ARE LOST - either go home or call the hare: 6971 833990

 

 

 

Also notable this week

1. 400th Anniversary of William Shakespear's death on this Saturday 23rd April.

   (Meaningful for MD as he was born in Stratford-on-Avon).

2. Queen Elizabeth 2nd's 90th Birthday on Thursday 21st April.

3. Lighting of the Olympic Torch in Olympia on 21st April for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

4. Death of the singer Prince (body found in a lift)